The Chávez Era Perspective for an Innovative Cultural Policy

The Making of Cultural Policy: a European Perspective

No good comparable data on the sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Impressions of preliminary data suggest that local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and that the cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After describing the special features of cultural goods and clarifying some misconceptions ...

An International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era

In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change came into force, but without participation by the United States. Its impacts on emissions of greenhouse gases—including carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary anthropogenic driver of climate change—will be trivial; but scientific (Robert T. Watson, 2001) and economic (Charles D. Kolstad and Michael A. T...

Cultural competence: an international perspective.

An innovative simulation environment for cross-domain policy enforcement

An Innovative Simulation Environment for Cross-Domain Policy Enforcement Lifeng Wang, Zhengping Wu Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT Policy-based management is necessary for cross-domain organization collaborations and system integrations. In reality different systems from different organizations or domains have very different high-level pol...

an investigation about the appropriate stochastic modeling framework for agricultural insurance pricing

با توجه به اینکه بیمه محصولات کشاورزی در ایران بیشتر جنبه ای حمایتی دارد و خسارات گزارش شده عموما بیش از حق بیمه های دریافت شده است، در این پایان نامه به جهت تعیین قیمت بیمه محصولات کشاورزی (گندم دیم) از فرآیندهای نوفه شلیک به عنوان مدلی مناسب استفاده شده است. بر اساس داده های صندوق بیمه کشاورزی از خسارات اعلام شده در سال زراعی 1388-1389 گندم دیم، در این پایان نامه حق بیمه خالص و ناخالص این محص...