Copyright© 2005, Australian Computer Society Inc. General permission to republish, but not for profit, all or part of this material is granted, provided that the JRPIT copyright notice is given and that reference is made to the publication, to its date of issue, and to the fact that reprinting privileges were granted by permission of the Australian Computer Society Inc. Information and Communic...

At the 1994 APEC summit in Bogor, Indonesia, it was recommended that trade and investment barriers among the member countries be removed by 2020. Despite general consensus that trade liberalization would accelerate development in this most dynamic trading area, there is very little empirical evidence about the adjustment process which would ensue. In this chapter, a ten-country CGE model is use...

SOPHIE VÉRAN*, OLIVIER GIMENEZ*†, ELIZABETH FLINT‡, WILLIAM L. KENDALL§, PAUL F. DOHERTY JR¶ and JEAN-DOMINIQUE LEBRETON* * CEFE, UMR 5175, CNRS, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France; † University of St Andrews, The Observatory, Buchanan Gardens, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, KY16 9LZ, UK; ‡ US Fish and Wildlife Service, Hawaiian and Pacific Islands NWR Complex, PO Box 50167, Ho...

In the summer of 1982 I attended a conference on American coal exports to the Pacific Rim. As chairman of a large oil brokerage firm I was looking for profitable areas of diversification. At that time, coal was considered a viable alternative to oil. Supplying Japanese companies seemed a logical expansion for my firm, which was already strategically positioned in the Japanese spot oil market. L...

In this paper, we examine the problem of fitting a circle to a set of noisy measurements of points on the circle’s circumference. Delogne (Proc. IMEKO-Symp. Microwave Measurements 1972, 117-123) has proposed an estimator which has been shown by Kåsa (IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas. 25, 1976, 8-14) to be convenient for its ease of analysis and computation. Using Chan’s circular functional model to de...

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU) in Beppu city, Japan has a large body of students from well over 90 countries, especially from the Asia Pacific region, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, and Indonesian students. To improve analytical thinking skills among college students, a course on “bioethics” was introduced and offered in two consecutive semesters to undergradu...

1 Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, 2 Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, United States, 3 Department of Biology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, 4 Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, H...

The complex nature of distributed networkbased musical performance served as the starting point for the Stanford University SoundWIRE group’s 2008 collaboration with Peking University in Beijing, China. In planning and executing the multi-ensemble networked concert entitled “Pacific Rim of Wire” at Stanford on April 29, 2008, musicians and engineers from Stanford and Beijing undertook issues—te...

This paper discusses the possible economic consequences of a change in the tuna fisheries in the Pacific Ocean resulting from climate change. On the background of Lehodey's (2000) study of potential changes in the tuna fisheries, we survey possible economic impacts in terms of quantities and values and give examples of macroeconomic impacts. The two main effects of climate change on tuna fishin...