This article focuses on the German television (“TV”) market from an antitrust perspective, limited to some competition aspects of the technical and program side of the German TV market. On the technical side, we are in a situation of an emerging market for digital TV where a TV household needs a decoder in order to transfer digital TV signals into analog TV signals, because most households stil...

The paper identifies the sources of regulatory complexity that lie behind the management of innovation, intellectual property, competition law and technical standard setting processes. It then introduces the remaining papers in the Special Issue. These papers focus on aspects of regulatory complexity in the Australian and New Zealand context. Taken overall the papers suggest that flexible stand...

DWFL are considered profitable optical sources because of their advantages such as low cost, easy and affordable optical structures, low losses insertion and space optimization. Principal issue to generate two simultaneous laser lines resides in the cavity losses ad‐ justment. In DWFL designed with Erbium-doped fiber (EDF) as a gain medium there is a strong competition between the generated las...

HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE: This Issue Brief examines issues related to managed competition and the use of a health insurance exchange for the purpose of addressing cost, quality, and access to health care services. It discusses issues that must be addressed when designing an exchange in order to reform the health insurance market and also examines state efforts at health reform that use an exch...

It is a great honor to be invited to contribute to the first issue of the Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society. May the Journal and those associated with it have great success in attaining its goals and in furthering the progress of statistical science. While there has been worldwide recognition of the important role that statistics and statisticians play in producing progress in science ...

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How do domestic political institutions, specifically veto players, mediate the effect of trade competition on regulatory races in the environmental area? Is the mediating effect more pronounced for more visible pollution issues such as air pollution in relation to less visible water pollution? Governments are expected to respond to trade pressures by lowering regulatory costs. To do so, governm...

Competition between ion trapping and collisional detrapping is considered to be an important issue in the stabilization of flow instability. The saturation amplitudes terms particle density are derived compared experimental data.

The Steering Committee decided to approach the Editors of the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics with a proposal to publish selected refereed papers from the conference. We were delighted when the proposal was accepted, and the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics joined other journals such as Advances in Applied Mathematics, Annals of Combinatorics, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Jou...

The negative impact of Internet use on adolescents has received much popular attention and has also become a popular research topic. How to induce adolescent players to change their attitudes toward online gaming is one of the most important issues in online gaming addiction. The present study is based on the less-leads-to-more effect of dissonance theory. Experimental research was conducted to...