Russians reassure India on rocket contract

Big-pharmaceuticalisation: clinical trials and Contract Research Organisations in India.

The World Trade Organisation's Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights [TRIPS] agreement aimed to harmonise intellectual property rights and patent protection globally. In India, the signing of this agreement resulted in a sharp increase in clinical trials since 2005. The Indian government, along with larger Indian pharmaceutical companies, believed that they could change existing commercial...

Interculturalism and New Russians in Berlin

In his paper, "Interculturalism and New Russians in Berlin" Giacomo Bottá discusses aspects of the community of Russian artists in contemporary (post-1989) Berlin. The Berlin-based Russendisko night has been held in Tel Aviv, Milan, or Frankfurt, where enthusiastic people danced to songs of obscure Russian bands. In 2004, a new CD compilation, Russensoul, was published and in 2005 Karaoke, the ...

Rocket Apparatus

On Specifying Contract Negotiations

eCommerce of the Business-to-Business (B2B) type requires comprehensive contract negotiations depending entirely on a contract schema, which must be developed in advance. Contract sche-mas are modeled according to bill-of-materials. Undefined contract parts are not allowed (Closed World Assumption). In the focus of the discussions are implications, i.e. the contract parts are not independent of...

Perceptual properties of Russians with Japanese fricatives

This study investigated the perceptual properties of second language learners in acquiring second language phonemes. The case where the relation between two phonemes of a second language and those of a native language changes according to following vowels was studied. The perceptual properties of Russians with regards to Japanese fricatives were examined. In the perception test, the confusion o...