Family Territories, Community Territories: Balancing Rights and Responsibilities through Time

Cybersocial Territories

This paper is intended to give visibility to the Cybersocial Territories concept, as a model of sustainable and fair regional development that tends to benefit from the SCIENCE, generated by American Universities, and the TECHNOLOGY, generated by Asian Knowledge Industries, to locally develop and assembly INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS. The functional characteristics of a Cybersocial Territory are: 1) It ...

Chromosome territories.

Chromosome territories (CTs) constitute a major feature of nuclear architecture. In a brief statement, the possible contribution of nuclear architecture studies to the field of epigenomics is considered, followed by a historical account of the CT concept and the final compelling experimental evidence of a territorial organization of chromosomes in all eukaryotes studied to date. Present knowled...

Habitats and Territories

The time of greatest sensitivity to radiation is during the period of organogenesis in the first twelve weeks of human foetal development. Irradiation of the adult can cause life shortening or increased incidence of leukemia. The last chapter is concerned with the basis and origin of radiation protection standards, the hazards of nuclear power plants, high altitude supersonic aerospace travel, ...

Lands, Territories and Resources

Exclusive Territories and Manufacturers' Collusion

This paper highlights the rationale for exclusive territories in a model of repeated interaction between competing supply chains. We show that with observable contracts exclusive territories have two countervailing effects on manufacturers’ incentives to sustain tacit collusion. First, granting local monopolies to retailers softens competition in a one-shot game. Hence, punishment profits are l...