INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 188 I. THE AFFIRMATION OF COMMITMENTS IN CONTEXT ......... 190 A. A Short History of the ICANN–DOC Relationship ........ 190 B. Key Aspects of the Affirmation .......................................... 198 1. What’s There ................................................................ 198 a. DOC’s ...

Ensuring sustainability through green supply chain management practices has become challenging for the textiles and garments industry. Organizations need to examine factors of firm’s performance how manage them strategically. Hence, strategic organizational orientation can be best approach implementing (GSCM) improve firm performance. This study aims assess impact in three dimensions, such as e...

This paper presents a new partial two-player game, called the cannibal animal game, which is a variant of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game is played on the infinite grid, where in each round a player chooses and occupies free cells. The first player Alice wins if she occupies a set of cells, the union of a subset of which is a translated or rotated copy of a previously agreed upon polyomino P (called an a...

The structures of three xGeO(2)-(1- x)P(2)O(5) glasses, where x = 0.98,0.88, and 0.81, have been studied by neutron and x-ray diffraction experiments that yield well resolved P-O and Ge-O bond distances. The Ge-O coordination number (N(GeO)) increased from 4.0 ± 0.2 to 4.5 ± 0.2 with the decrease in x from 0.98 to 0.81. The increase in N(GeO) is consistent with a structural model that assumes t...

3D geo-database research is a promising field to support challenging applications such as 3D urban planning, environmental monitoring, infrastructure management, and early warning or disaster management and response. In these fields, interdisciplinary research in GIScience and related fields is needed to support the modelling, analysis, management, and integration of large geo-referenced data s...

In the last 30 years, China’s economic power has experienced great changes and has brought about a profound impact on the world economy. This led us to ask a question: do changes in China’s economic power shift the geo-economic relationships between China and its neighboring countries? To answer this question, we researched the evolution of geo-economic relationships between China and the Assoc...

Geographic information services (geo-services) are gaining popularity as an efficient and costeffective framework for integrating geo-information systems, within and between enterprises, to enhance enterprise business processes. Geo-services can be chained dynamically to create customised geo-information and value-added services and therefore offer a business opportunity for disparate partners ...

From the perspective of spatial information sharing and interoperation, the concept of geo-ontology has been proposed in this paper. At first, a brief introduction to the Geo-Ontology concept has been described and the hierarchical structure of geo-ontology has also been analyzed. Then, the traditional method of ontology construction has been discussed and the existing problems have also been s...