As more and more applications in both the commercial and scientific field make routine use of pictorial data, it has become increasingly apparent that the problems involved in organizing image collections for efficient storage and retrieval are far from trivial. Hence interest in research into image content retrieval has grown rapidly over the last few years. The field has provided a rich varie...

Purpose: The main goal of the paper is to analyse possibilities and rules management protection a famous person’s surname based on provisions Regulation 2017/1001 European Parliament Council 14 June 2017 Union trade mark (EUTMR). Moreover, author aims at exploring whether general principles marks are modified in view relation between person case conflict containing similar another person. Desig...

We present a theory of why some countries negotiate trade agreements during economic downturns. We argue that political leaders can gain from such agreements because of the signals they send to their publics. Publics are less likely to blame leaders for bad economic conditions when they have implemented sound economic policies, such as signing and implementing agreements designed to liberalize ...

Species (Cites) in 1989, to halt the steep decline in elephant numbers. “Wild elephant populations were decimated by the ivory trade. By the time the 1989 Cites ban came into force, Africa’s elephants had been reduced by more than 50 per cent,” says Mark Jones, programmes director at Care for the Wild, an international wildlife charity which commissioned the mammoth ivory report. “Poaching cont...

A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with non-clearing labour markets and imperfect competition is estimated for 21 OECD countries. The model provides for parameters both for preferences and technology and for the degree of structural rigidities on labour and product markets. These parameters are matched with policy indicators, establishing a relation between the model-based employmen...

Species (Cites) in 1989, to halt the steep decline in elephant numbers. “Wild elephant populations were decimated by the ivory trade. By the time the 1989 Cites ban came into force, Africa’s elephants had been reduced by more than 50 per cent,” says Mark Jones, programmes director at Care for the Wild, an international wildlife charity which commissioned the mammoth ivory report. “Poaching cont...