The efficiency of communication depends on the ability of conspecifics to recognize and locate each other, and the environment can impose important limitations on reliability of transmitted and received information. In contrast to the 3D space of airborne sound communication, substrate-borne...

We consider classification of the realization of a multivariate spatial-temporal Gaussian random field into one of two populations with different regression mean models and factorized covariance matrices. Unknown means and common feature vector covariance matrix are estimated from training...

<heading format="display" id="h1" implicit="yes" level="1">Abstract</heading> Firm productivity and export decisions are closely related to innovation activity. Innovation may play a more important role in the decision to start exporting, and successful exporting may drive process innovation. This suggests that the causality between innovation and exporting may...

Backward linkages of foreign subsidiaries with their local suppliers prove to be one of the main channels of knowledge spillovers via foreign direct investment. This paper analyses the potential of backward linkages of foreign subsidiaries in Slovenia for the transfer of technology and for the...

The World Trade Organization ('WTO') is the principal international institution for the management and regulation of the process of economic globalization. Its effectiveness in fulfilling this important task, however, leaves much to be desired. On 4 and 5 February 2005, the Faculty of Law of...