The privatization and liberalization of telecommunications services have been debated and pursued with varying speed and successby countries throughout the world. InTurkey, efforts to privatize Türk Telekom and liberalize the telecommunications regime have not yet been successful.At the same time, the Internethas experienceddramatic growth.While the experienceofTurkey illustrates that formal li...

Although paraphrasing is the linguistic mechanism underlying many plagiarism cases, little attention has been paid to its analysis in the framework of automatic plagiarism detection. Therefore, state-of-the-art plagiarism detectors find it difficult to detect cases of paraphrase plagiarism. In this article, we analyze the relationship between paraphrasing and plagiarism, paying special attentio...

In Spaulding v. Blair' the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit determined that the mere submission to state-wide referendum of a proposed open-housing act for final approval by the voters, under the procedure outlined in Article XVI of the Maryland Constitution, was not a violation of fourteenth amendment rights and could not be enjoined. During its 1967 session the Maryland General Assembl...

o Using a base of philosophical athropology, this article suggests that an ethical analysis of persuasion must include not just the logic human response, but culture and experience as well. The authors propose potential maxims for ethical behavior in advertising and public relations and applies them to two case studies, political advertising and the Bridgestone/Firestone controversy. Communicat...

We analyze conditions under which candidates’ reputations may affect voters’ beliefs over what policy will be implemented by the winning candidate of an election. We develop a model of repeated elections with complete information in which candidates are purely ideological. We analyze an equilibrium in which voters’ strategies involve a credible threat to punish candidates who renege on their ca...

Let f(n, p, q) be the minimum number of colors necessary to color the edges of Kn so that every Kp is at least q-colored. We improve current bounds on these nearly “anti-Ramsey” numbers, first studied by Erdős and Gyárfás. We show that f(n, 5, 9) ≥ 7 4 n− 3, slightly improving the bound of Axenovich. We make small improvements on bounds of Erdős and Gyárfás by showing 5 6 n+1 ≤ f(n, 4, 5) and f...

in a cross section of the patients scheduled for various operations, the plausability of lidocaine as an induction agent is studied and described. the results were dismaying suggesting, henceforth, that as an induction agent, lidocaine altogether fails to accomplish the assignment assigned to this drug.