The primary aim of this research report is to analyse the dynamics and structure of the publications of Russian authors, as well as to define the place of Russian science in the global scientific process. Bibliometric analysis methods are the main methods for quantitative analysis of scientific...

I will address eight common claims about bitcoin: 1. Physical bitcoins exist; 2. The founder of bitcoin is a person called Satoshi Nakamoto; 3. Bitcoin is mainly used for criminal activity; 4. A lack of security plagues bitcoin; 5. Mining is a waste of energy; 6. Bitcoin too small today to be an...

Civil unrest is a powerful form of collective human dynamics, which has led to major transitions of societies in modern history. The study of collective human dynamics, including collective aggression, has been the focus of much discussion in the context of modeling and identification of...

In this paper we select the most relevant parts of the applicable rulings to the recent judicial saga of the Argentine sovereign debt in default to show the radical changes took by the United States courts that were in charge of the cases, including the latest case dated December 22, 2016. The...

In this paper we select the most relevant parts of the applicable rulings to the recent judicial saga of the Argentine sovereign debt in default to show the radical changes took by the United States courts that were in charge of the cases, including the latest case dated December 22, 2016. The...

Various production and services sectors which entail intensive use of labour and relatively low wages are already being undermined and downgraded to a migrant workforce by large-scale flows of migration and the fast development and expansion of globalization. Because of the various changes...

A decade ago, the German Advisory Council to the Federal Government on Global Environmental Change (Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung für Globale Umweltveränderungen - WBGU) published its main report. This attempt to take stock in 2011 made an impact and provided orientation on...

In this Article, the authors challenge the conventional wisdom in the legal, economics, and policy literature that unilateral (as opposed to collective) action by individual countries to restrain despoliation of the global commons is presumptively irrational. The conventional view flows from...

A package of economic sanctions has been approved by the U.S. Congress in late June followed by President Obama’s signature, in the hope of pressuring Iran to suspend its nuclear program. The United Nations, for its part, recently imposed a fourth round of sanctions on Iran in an attempt to...