While having the lowest number of main telephone lines for every 100 inhabitants (teledensity) over the last decade, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), have the highest average pre-tax operator profitability in the world. Many LDCs have already opened their terminal equipment markets to competition and some have also done this with data and value-added services. LDCs are greatly behind other...

EUPHORIA is a user interface management system that enables end-users to create direct manipulation graphical user interfaces (GUIs) through interactive drawing. Used in conjunction with The Programmers’ Playground, a distributed programming environment, end-users can dynamically create and associate GUI components with an underlying application without programming. This document describes EUPH...

Abuse liability of diazepam was examined among experienced drug users. The subjects, randomly divided into two groups, each having eight subjects, received diazepam, 15 mg intravenously (gr. 1) and 30 mg orally (gr. 2). Subjective states, drug liking, sedation and euphoria were assessed at pre-drug, 15 min, 120 min and 240 min post-drug administration. In addition, brief assessment to evaluate ...

The Programmers’ Playground is a software library and run-time system for creating distributed multimedia applications from collections of reusable software modules. This paper presents the design and implementation of EUPHORIA, Playground’s user interface management system. Implemented as a Playground module, EUPHORIA allows end-users to create direct manipulation graphical user interfaces (GU...

Roger Weiss: I learned a lot from this article (Savage, Kirsh, and Passik, 2008). It pro­ vides a very comprehensive, soup-to-nuts review of the relationship between pain and substance abuse, describes the mechanisms of pain, and details which kinds of opioids cause euphoria and under what circum­ stances. Most valuably, the authors present a rational approach to clinically evaluating and treat...

Indian telecom services industry has been witnessing a stupendous growth since 1990s. Over the years, subscriber base has grown steadily and it crossed 950 million marks in March 2012. India with second largest subscriber base also offers one of the lowest call tariffs in the world. But in the euphoria of high growth in services, the equipment manufacturing received least priority. India mainly...

Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk aversion and market efficiency. T...

bered that EUPHORIA is part of a distributed system; if the EUPHORIA module monopolizes the CPU, external modules will run slower which, in turn, will make EUPHORIA run slowly. Also, if other modules update their variables repeatedly at a rate faster than the update rate of EUPHORIA, time is still spent dealing with the intermediate values of the variables even though the values may be " skippe...

During the first 30 min after acute ethanol consumption by three fasting normal male volunteers, no increase in circulating tryptophan availability to the brain occurred. On the contrary, a small decrease was observed, which became stronger subsequently. We conclude from this preliminary study that brain serotonin levels are not increased after alcohol intake by normal subjects and that, conseq...