opportunities for diamond processing countries such as Armenia. Building productive capacity through skills development and … technological progress is of central importance to achieving sustainable growth in diamond manufacturing countries. Secondary … diamond industries are successful where economic and social conditions are optimal and supportive. To develop or maintain a …

, exogenous measures of oil, gas, and diamond wealth are robustly correlated with the onset of civil war. Still, these … assumptions. Third, petroleum and diamond production lead to civil wars through at least three different mechanisms. Finally, the …

For nearly one millenium, the diamond industry's distribution system remained largely unchanged. Ethnic networks … executory contracts for diamond sales, these networks succeeded because their community institutions were able to assert … to consumers. Since these pressures represent the paradigmatic forces of globalisation, examining changes in the diamond …

sanctions between Russia, the world leader in diamond mining, and India, the largest producer of polished diamonds, as well as … the UAE (Dubai) and the EU (Belgium) the world's largest centers of diamond trade …

C-Si bonds are formed by boron-doped selective growth at the diamond-SiO 2 interface. Two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) C …-Si diamond metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) using C-Si bonded have low interfacial density of states … and high hole mobility can be expected. C-Si diamond MOSFET have properties comparable to 2DHG hydrogen-terminated (C …