favor. An increased external threat of terrorism--either an increase in the likelihood of a successful terrorist attack or a … thus lessen the severity of the conflict at home. However, unless the marginal return from guarding against terrorism is …

paper observes that the third world’s debt crisis resulted from an exponential increase in external indebtedness … worsened the debt portfolio of third world countries by refinancing maturing loans with shorter maturities. These countries … justified by apprehension to fearful consequences for world trade and political stability [if the purchasing power of the third …

computing platforms. They enable the creation of Virtual Enterprises (VE) for sharing resources distributed across the world … resource provider and consumer objective functions through trading and brokering services. In a real world market, there exist … brokering through Nimrod/G deadline and cost-based scheduling for two different optimization strategies on the World Wide Grid …