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Economic motivations and economic processes play a key role in the emergence and diffusion of communication and information technologies. The objective of this paper is to offer an economic approach which is better suited to understanding such motivations and processes within an...
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Umweltindustrie im besonderen zu finden. Neben einem einf?hrenden Theorieteil, der neben der Entwicklungstheorie in der Tradition von …The thesis contains development theory (in the tradition of Schumpeter), the theory of social systems (created mainly … an example for future attempts in directing economic development without impeding its momentus. …
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, acquisition costs and development times are becoming increasingly large. Meanwhile, the transformation of the global security … without buying prohibitively costly new systems, it is necessary for the military to evolve across the spectrum of doctrine … quantitatively assess doctrine alongside materiel approaches. Additionally, life-cycle cost techniques are provided to enable a cost …
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in research and development activities have been significantly weakened in relation to processes of commercialization …. After examining the definition of China’s biotechnology industry as well as its evolution, the authors of this paper employ …
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The objective of this article is to examine the evolution of the global financial markets during the post-World War …
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Many commentators have pointed towards a downturn in the enrolment of students on economics degrees. Part of the explanation for this phenomenon is probably because business studies degrees meet students' requirements for practical understanding more closely. We suggest here that one of the...
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disruption, and risk of failure associated with the re-development or replacement of an information system. This research … an information system is either in a stable state of evolution in which the information system's functionality is …
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Supply and demand largely determine the price of goods on human markets. It has been proposed that in animals, similar forces influence the payoff distribution between trading partners in Sexual selection, intraspecific cooperation and interspecific mutualism. Here we present the first...
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Using Simon's concept of nested hierarchies, this paper advances a new synthesis for understanding how and why the discontinuous change processes of punctuated equilibrium may occur in socio-economic settings. A. key concept is the nested, multilevel organization of 'deep structure', the order...
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1 Correlations between phenotypic traits are important in a number of contexts in physiological ecology, evolutionary physiology, and behaviour. Correlations can reflect functional connections or trade-offs among performance traits (e.g. bite force, jumping distance) and can reveal causal...
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