The nighttime light data records artificial light on the Earth’s surface and can be used to estimate the spatial distribution of the gross domestic product (GDP) and the electric power consumption (EPC). In early 2013, the first global NPP-VIIRS nighttime light data were released by the Earth Observation Group of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Geophysical Data Center...

This paper investigates very long run pre-industrial economic development. New annual GDP per capita data for six European countries over the last seven hundred years paints a clearer picture of the history of European economic development. First, it confirms that sustained growth has been a recent phenomenon, but rejects the argument that there was no permanent growth in living standards befor...

This paper looks at factors that influenced national investment in information technology during the tumultuous time period 1993 through 2002. Whereas spending from 1993-1997 was influenced by uncertainty avoidance and individualism, after 1998 these factors no longer influenced IT investment. Similar to studies of IT usage in the previous decade (1985-1995) we find that the structure of the ec...

Abstract. Generalized disjunctive programming (GDP) is an extension of the disjunctive programming paradigm developed by Balas. The GDP formulation involves Boolean and continuous variables that are specified in algebraic constraints, disjunctions and logic propositions, which is an alternative representation to the traditional algebraic mixedinteger programming formulation. After providing a b...

The papers presents a high performance speed and position control system for separately-excited D.C. motor, which was designed and performed with a dedicated integrated circuits (L290, L291, L292), made by SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics Company. The L290, L291 and L292 together form a complete microprocessorcontrolled (microcomputer chips) DC motor servo positioning system that is both fast and a...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the trends and correlations of gross domestic product (GDP) adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita on suicide rates in 10 WHO regions during the past 30 years. DESIGN Analyses of databases of PPP-adjusted GDP per capita and suicide rates. Countries were grouped according to the Global Burden of Disease regional classification system. DATA SOURCES Wor...

kiarostami’s unfinished cinema emphasizes the importance of audiences’ involvement in a movie by using postmodern images. some essential points of critically reading his, so-called half-created cinema, could be summarized as self-reflexive style, diagrammatical perspectives, in-between narratives,and individual minimalism. the main postmodern achievement of this cinema is focusing on the proces...

 The excess liquidity of the open economy has become one main factor influencing the monetary markets, financial markets and even the whole macroeconomic. In era of the post-crisis, many countries have implemented the loose monetary policies, especially the quantitative easing policy in the U.S. which worsened the situation of the excess liquidity. Under this background, it will be more meaning...