Translating R&D and inventive efforts into a market product is characterized by significant financial skills, and the ability to overcome technical and instititonal barriers. Research into and translation of new technologies such as biotechnology products to the market requires even greater resources. This paper aims to understand the key factors that foster or hinder the complex process of tra...

Over the past decade or so, aided by information and communication technologies, money laundering has seen a sharp increase. While traditionally money laundering was associated with drug cartels and warlords, increasingly the focus has shifted towards white-collar crime and terrorist financing. It is therefore important to understand why money laundering (and hence white-collar crime) comes int...

This paper extends Persson, Roland and Tabellini’s (2000) simple legislature in the context of public finance with certainty to uncertainty. In our uncertain world, oversized coalitions (OSCs) as well as minimum winning coalitions (MWCs) may arise in equilibrium, and the agenda setter’s proposed policy may fail to receive a majority support. This is in marked contrast to the certain world in wh...

In this paper we present an algorithm for semi-automatic object extraction from video sequences using multiple features. This work is part of an ongoing e ort to study video segmentation using multiple features, and the relative contribution of each one of them. For this reason, the algorithm here presented will be very simple and made up from of the shelf algorithms. We will show that even wit...

Every 6 seconds someone is killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. With 1.3 million road deaths each year this is a global epidemic comparable to malaria or Tuberculosis. Nine in ten road deaths and injuries are in developing countries. By comparison to other global killers, road injury is neglected. Road crashes are the leading global cause of death for young people under 25 years, a...

COUNCIL Jody Hey, President Department of Genetics, Rutgers University, 604 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Ken Wolfe, President-Elect Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Email: [email protected]. Michael Lynch, Past President Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 E. Third Street, Bloomington,...

Muller, and P. R. Renne, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, Presently at Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry and Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA ([email protected]), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2755 Ridge Road, ...

forest road construction is the most costly operation in forestry. road designing and construction in unsuitable areas may increase construction and maintenance costs and also cause many environmental impacts. therefore, it is required to pay more attention to forest road design. in this research, we tried to introduce an appropriate method for locating forest roads using gis and ahp simultaneo...