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[1] We report on seismic and petrological data that provide new constraints on the geological evolution of the Amerasia Basin. A seismic reflection transect across the Makarov Basin, located between the Mendeleev and Lomonosov Ridges, shows a complete undisturbed sedimentary section of Mesozoic/Cenozoic age. In contrast to the Mendeleev Ridge, the margin of the Lomonosov Ridge is wide and shows...

T his feature explores the operation of individual markets. Patterns of behavior in markets for specific goods and services offer lessons about the determinants and effects of supply and demand, market structure, strategic behavior, and government regulation. Suggestions for future columns and comments on past ones should be sent to James R. Hines Jr., c/o Journal of Economic Perspectives, Depa...

The debate over the impact of government regulation on innovation in the United States is framed in the context of the gradual decline of economic regulation since the 1960s, and the gradual increase in social welfare regulation over the same period. Fueling much of the economic deregulation movement has been classical economic theory, which holds that regulation imposes a cost burden on firms,...

A detailed search and re-evaluation of the known historical cases of tailings dam failure was carried out. A corpus of 147 cases of worldwide tailings dam disasters, from which 26 located in Europe, was compiled in a database. This contains six sections, including dam location, its physical and constructive characteristics, actual and putative failure cause, sludge hydrodynamics, socio-economic...

This paper offers a decision-making tool for politics in charge of the prevention of the seismic risk of a city. The multi-agents methodology is applied to an urban area as a spatial environment. The focus is on the question of the public buildings, their maintenance and the investments which allow reducing their vulnerability. The public buildings are viewed as agents whose attributes are the ...

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