Abstract This article analyses the ratification of international commercial law conventions. The Convention for International Sale Goods (CISG) is almost 40 years old. In 2012, Switzerland proposed to United Nations Commission on Trade Law (UNCITRAL) evaluate CISG and assess whether there was need a new convention. While UNCITRAL decided not pursue this further, questions that raised remain per...

Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we find that 25% of all political posts are from blogs that post about politics less than 20% of the time, because the vast majority of blogs post about politics s...

the caspian basin in its old geopolitical situation under the soviet :union: was located in the buffer zone between two spheres of influence of the two superpowers. after the fall of the soviet :union: followed by the rise of new structures and three new states in the region, new relations, however, prevailed among the areas of geography, power and politics in the region. these new relations in...

The pressure for governments to release much of the vast reservoirs of data that they hold continues to grow. This pressure is grounded not just in principles such as the right of the public to know or freedom of information, but in beliefs, what have even been called myths, about the economic, social, administrative and political benefits that will flow from the wide availability of such data....

the enthronement of mohammad shah qajar promised nematollahi sufis the end of difficulties they experienced during the reign of fath'ali shah and their problems in iran. kowsaralishahis and mastalishahis, as two branches of this doctrine, each tried to benefit a better position in those situations. the quality of theoretical and practical operation of these two branches of nematollahi doct...

Although the HIV pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a rapidly growing HIV problem. While generating HIV data has been consistently increasing since 2005, MENA’s contribution to the global HIV literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. Sever...

Trust, --but Verify!, a well known political dictum was enunciated by the late Ronald Reagan (United States President, 1980-88) in his attempts to break down barriers and integrate the communist (political, economic and nuclear) systems into a capitalist world. Nowhere is this dictum more appropriate than in the context of attempts to enable information integration and service composition for c...