The primary objective of this study was to assess the impact of catfish imports and tariffs on the U.S. catfish industry, with particular focus on the U.S. International Trade Commission ruling on Vietnam in 2003. Given the importance of Vietnam to the U.S. catfish market, it was assumed that...

Simple plots of data show that malaria has a negative correlation with national income per capita, whether looking across countries at a point in time, or looking at a single country over time. Some countries have been able to move from an equilibrium characterized by low income and high...

A grande necessidade de diminuir a dependência em relação ao petróleo devido aos seus preços em constante elevação, a preocupação com o meio ambiente (protocolo de kyoto) e a crescente demanda por carros flex tem colocado o etanol - uma energia totalmente renovável - em papel de...

In this paper, we present the results of two methods developed to forecast cutset (intra-regional transmission line) power flows. The first method involving neural network load forecasting and simultaneous equations can only be applied to radial electricity networks. This method was applied to...

In the light of the reaffirmed importance ofagricultural convergence within the integration process, thepaper provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of theenlargement from the EU-15 to the EU-27 on agricultural realb-convergence and, with reference to the EU-27, of itsrelationship...

"The paper presents thoughts on Sustainable Data Infrastructure (SDI)development, and its user requirements bases. It brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory,...

Mit dem Ziel einer erhöhten Durchsetzung der Waldgesetze zur Kontrolle von Entwaldung führte die Umweltbehörde von Mato Grosso im Jahre 1999 ein neues Umweltlizenzsystem ein. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht die Wirksamkeit dieses Umweltlizenzsystem durch eine Kombination quantitativ...

Artículo de revista ; The article highlights how the distribution of the cash infrastructure affects cash users in Spain. The more cash infrastructures are scaled down and/or concentrated, the wider the gap becomes between those who have difficulty accessing cash and those who have easy access...