Robotic Realities: Near-Term Prospects and Problems

Subnational Revenues: Realities and Prospects

The traditional theory of fiscal federalism prescribes a very limited tax base for subnational governments. The only "good" local taxes are said to be those (1) that are easy to administer locally, (2) that are imposed solely (or mainly) on local residents, and (3) that do not raise problems of "harmonization" or "competition" between subnational governments or between subnational and national ...

Local and Regional Revenues: Realities and Prospects

The traditional theory of fiscal federalism prescribes a very limited tax base for subnational governments. The only good local taxes are said to be those that are easy to administer locally, are imposed solely (or mainly) on local residents, and do not raise problems of harmonization or competition between subnational – local or regional governments or between subnational and national governme...

Problems and Prospects of Introducing Islamic Microfinance in Azerbaijan Republic

Prospects for constraining quantum gravity dispersion with near term observations

We discuss the prospects for bounding and perhaps even measuring quantum gravity effects on the dispersion of light using the highest energy photons produced in gamma ray bursts measured by the Fermi telescope. These prospects are brigher than might have been expected as in the first 10 months of operation Fermi has reported so far eight events with photons over 100MeV seen by its Large Area Te...

Knowledge Management: Problems, Promises, Realities, and Challenges

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. —George Santayana Innovation is everywhere; the difficulty is learning from it. —John Seeley Brown T he first quote reflects the motivation underlying traditional knowledge management (KM), in which the goal is to store information from the past so that lessons will not be forgotten. This perspective implies that future information ...