The expansion of the international PV trade encourages governments to focus on their trade roles in this market, which has increasing impact on their future development of sustainable energy. Thus, an exploration of top traders and their influence on global PV trade pattern is essential as governments seek to develop strategies to improve their global PV market’s discourse power. This study int...

Several recent works have investigated the costs associated with QoS routing, in terms of both additional processing and increased protocol overhead, in an attempt to identify operating conditions that achieve a good trade-oo between cost and performance. In this paper, we concentrate on improving this trade-oo by devising methods that increase the performance of QoS routing, when cost constrai...

ON THE ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MARGINAL INTRA-INDUSTRY TRADE AND LABOUR ADJUSTMENT IN A DIVISION OF LABOUR MODEL In the context of Ethier’s (1982) division of labour model, this paper accomplishes three tasks. First, we complement existing literature on the algebraic properties of marginal intra-industry trade (MIIT) measures by embedding one of these measures in a general equilibrium mod...

The performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems is greatly increased by having channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. In systems with no channel reciprocity, a limited feedback link is used to send the CSI from the receiver to the transmitter. However, the resources for the feedback link come at the expense of resources from the communications link. T...

Several recent works have investigated the costs associated with QoS routing, in terms of both additional processing and increased protocol overhead, in an attempt to identify operating conditions that achieve a good trade-off between cost and performance. In this paper, we concentrate on improving this trade-off by devising methods that increase the performance of QoS routing, when cost constr...

The multibillion-dollar trade in bushmeat is among the most immediate threats to the persistence of tropical vertebrates, but our understanding of its underlying drivers and effects on human welfare is limited by a lack of empirical data. We used 30 years of data from Ghana to link mammal declines to the bushmeat trade and to spatial and temporal changes in the availability of fish. We show tha...

P rotection. For free traders, this word represents the consummate evil. For environmentalists, it is the ultimate good. Of course, for the trade community, “protection” conjures up dark images of Smoot and Hawley, while the environmental camp sees clear mountain streams, lush green forests, and piercing blue skies. One cannot blame all of the tensions at the trade-environment interface on ling...

Internet application performance over wireless links is disappointing, since wireless impairments adversely affect higher protocol layers. In order to address these problems without global protocol modifications, we examine link layer enhancement schemes. Simulations show that different schemes work best for different applications. We have thus developed a multi-service link layer architecture ...

Do political tensions harm economic relations? Theories claim that trade prevents war and political relations motivate trade, but less is known about whether smaller shifts in political relations impact economic exchange. Looking at two major economies, we show that negative events have not hurt U.S. or Japanese trade or investment flows. We then examine specific incidents of tensions in U.S.-F...

This paper empirically examines the dynamic causal link between business R&D expenditures and trade performance in Australia. Based on cointegration and errorcorrection modeling Granger causality tests, variance decomposition and impulse response functions are used for this purpose. The results show that there is a long-run relationship exists between the trade variables and R&D expenditure and...