Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum launched a process that could ultimately produce the largest single act of trade liberalization in history. They agreed to " seriously consider " negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP) and instructed their officials to " undertake further studies on ways and means to promote " the initiative so that they could address it at their...

In 2007, the editorial home of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management will be leaving Asia for the first time—in fact leaving its founding school, the National University of Singapore (NUS), for the first time. Founded in 1983, APJM is the oldest and most prominent academic journal in the management field that is in Asia, on Asia, and of Asia. The move out of Asia is significant, because it una...

High-resolution photoelectron spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation was applied for monitoring in real time the oxidation kinetics on the Ti(0001) surface at 405C with dry O2 gas. The time evolution of O 1s photoelectron intensity showed a linear uptake curve up to ~90 L followed by a sudden saturation up to ~160 L and then a restart of the linear increase, indicating that O2 adsorption obey...

Simulating quantum computation on a classical computer is a difficult problem. The matrices representing quantum gates, and vectors modeling qubit states grow exponentially with an increase in the number of qubits. However, by using a novel data structure called the Quantum Information Decision Diagram (QuIDD) that exploits the structure of quantum operators, many of these matrices and vectors ...

a South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa b CAIR: Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X54001, Durban 4000, South Africa c CAIR: Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, CSIR Meraka Institute, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South A...

In this paper, we present a hardware-software cosimulation environment for heterogeneous systems. To be an efficient system verification environment for the rapid prototyping of heterogeneous systems, the environment provides interface transparency, simulation acceleration, smooth transition to cosynthesis, and integrated user interface and internal representation. As an experimental example, a...

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

extended abstract 1. introduction temperature leaves undeniable effects on human activities and natural processes. the analysis of average maximum temperature and the highest temperatures related to the heat wave phenomenon is of great importance. the most important goals of this study include the investigation of the geographical distribution of the maximum average temperatures and extreme tem...

Foreign Direct Investmentplays a crucial role in the economy of developing countries like Bangladesh through accelerating Gross Domestic Product (GDP), export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. The present scenario of FDI in Bangladesh in not still satisfactory enough but given the availability of abundant resources, skilled and cheap labor forces, a stable political a...