The Economics of Terrorism In order for terrorists to be successful they must have funding to complete their missions. If the international community desires to truly undermine the productivity of terrorists, then we must first destroy the economic network or access to the resources that terrorists use to achieve, facilitate, and promote the objectives of terrorism. When I speak of resources, I...

This work seeks to enhance a user’s experience in a digital library using group-based social navigation. Ensemble is a portal focusing on computing education as part of the US National Science Digital Library providing access to a large amount of learning materials and resources for education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. With so many resources and so many contributing gr...

Knowledge discovery processes, when used to find information on competitor and marketplace activities, enable organizations to mimic their competitors and/or identify new strategic opportunities where valuable firm resources can be exploited. In this way, knowledge discovery processes can help organizations to develop valuable and unique opportunities and resources, a source of competitive adva...

Firms use internationalization to access external resources to exploit technological knowledge or explore new market. However they face the paradox whether to build strong resources commitment to new foreign markets or continue resources allocations in other domains in existing markets. In this paper, we examine how newly listed firms overcome the paradox and initiate international activities a...

Grid infrastructure is a valuable tool for scientific users, but it is characterized by a high level of complexity which makes it difficult for them to quantify their requirements and allocate resources. In this paper, we show that resource trading is a viable and scalable approach for scientific users to consume resources. We propose the use of Grid resource bundles to specify supply and deman...

one of recent developments in modern societies is the evolution in the structure of power division in the family and changes in reciprocal actions between wife and husband. this research aims to study the factors affecting distribution of power in the family by using the theories of: social capital, valuable resources, and sociability of gender. the data has been collected through survey method...

Having IT-related capabilities is not enough to secure value from IT resources and survive in today’s competitive environment. IT resources evolve dynamically and firms must sustain their existing capabilities to continue to leverage value from their IT resources. Firm’s human resources are an important IT-related capability, and an important source of their competitive advantage. Using a field...

Credit ratings are commonly used by lenders to assess the default risk, because every credit is connected with a possible loss. If the probability of a default is above a certain threshold, a credit will not be provided. The purpose of this paper is to test whether credit ratings contribute valuable information on the creditworthiness of firms. Employing a large sample of Western German manufac...

Why do industries donate money to legislative campaigns when roll-call votes suggest that donors gain nothing in return? I argue that corporate donors may shape policy outcomes by influencing powerful agenda setters in the early stages of lawmaking. On the basis of a new dataset of more than 45,000 individual state-legislator sessions (19882012), I document how agenda control is deemed valuable...

Mediastinoscopy is a safe and simple endoscopic procedure for the exploration of the superior mediastinum. It provides useful information as to the possible resectability of bronchogenic carcinoma, or for establishing the diagnosis of primary tumors of the mediastinum, metastatic disease and a variety of chronic granulomata.