INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 121 I. NATIONAL SECURITY REVIEWS OF FOREIGN ACQUISITIONS OF U.S. TELECOM BUSINESSES............................................................ 126 II. FCC CONDITIONS ON A MERGER OF DOMESTIC TELECOM CARRIERS ....................................................................................... 14...

Algorithms for solving agreement problems can be classified in two categories: (1) those relying on failure detectors that we call FD-based, and (2) those that rely on a Group Membership Service that we call GMS-based. The paper discusses the advantages and limitations of these two approaches, and proposes an extension to the GMS-approach that combines the advantages of both approaches, without...

ment, but also for ensuring that liberalized trade and investment stay on course. The U.S. Congress established the East-West Center in 1960 to foster mutual understanding and cooperation among the governments and peoples of the Asia Pacific region, including the United States. Funding for the Center comes from the U.S. government with additional support provided by private agencies, individual...

this research is based on explaining the relationship between globalization and al-qaeda. author believes that al-qaeda as an anti-globalization terrorist movement does its activities against the u.s hegemony over the world especially muslim world. from the other perspective al-qaeda uses professionally the globalization tools like information technology. describing globalization and reactions ...

the world is considering the great change in sphere of globalization process in 21st century in which individuals living on earth are regarded as members of a mutual political entity. economic globalization is the most significant and conspicuous model of globalization. one of the most important issues in economic globalization process is the function of states in economic policymaking. the pre...

This paper presents a general model of a Group Management Service (GMS) which is designed to support collaborative interactions among groups of distributed users using di erent applications. There are two main bene ts of such a service. Firstly, it would be easier to implement new collaborative applications because of the possibility to use an existing service. Secondly, it would be possible fo...

Globalization and communication scholars have argued that technology is transforming the ‘‘third sector’’, the set of organizations that are not-for-profit and non-governmental (NGOs). This research examines the local and global linkages among a hyperlink network of 248 HIV/AIDS NGOs. This research examines the north/south NGO divide in the context of these new technology-based associations. Re...

Ever since its launch in 2003, GMS German Medical Science benefits from the expertise of numerous reviewers. Their work is of highest value for the quality of the journal; they contribute anonymously, without remuneration and mostly in their spare time to a scientific open access journal. We would like to appreciate their efforts at least ideally at the beginning of the New Year. The editors, a...

In this paper, we study the estimation and inference problems for parameters when the data set is obtained by combining data from different sources. In the case where we want to estimate the means of random variables in our data set, we consider the set of estimators that are linear combinations of certain sample averages, and find that one estimator, defined to be the Adjusted estimator, that ...