This article scrutinizes the effects of economic competition on environmental standard levels in low-regulating states that intensifY their economic interlinkage with high-regulating countries. In doing so, it pursues rwo objectives. First, we provide a detailed empirical account of the impact of economic integration on the development of environmenral standards in Hungary and Mexico. Second, w...

Good governance reforms aim at transforming African state bureaucracies into efficient, transparent, and accountable institutions. These policies are inserted into the national administrative apparatus by means of conditions attached to the financial support of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Although the conditions exactly match the priorities of these international f...

Several approaches of structuring (factorization, decomposition) of Dempster-Shafer joint belief functions from literature are reviewed with special emphasis on their capability to capture independence from the point of view of the claim that belief functions generalize bayes notion of probability. It is demonstrated that Zhu and Lee's {Zhu:93} logical networks and Smets' {Smets:93} directed ac...

BACKGROUND Because of the commonality of diagnostic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), MRI conditional technology has increased throughout the device industry. It is often difficult to be aware of MRI specifications for each device. OBJECTIVES We provide a review of the clinical experience with MRI and spinal cord stimulation (SCS) devices and develop a general reference of current device/MRI ...

This chapter describes recent and ongoing annotation efforts using the ISO 24617-2 standard for dialogue act annotation. Experimental studies are reported on the annotation by human annotators and by annotation machines of some of the specific features of the ISO annotation scheme, such as its multidimensional annotation of communicative functions, the recognition of each of its nine dimensions...

This paper deals with the resource management for the detection of a moving target. Based on a generalized linear formalism, an algebraic framework for spatio-temporal optimization of the search efforts is developed, which allows management of multi-modes resources under various rules: modalization, conditionality, parallelizing. This formalism is an extension of Koopman/Brown search model and ...

We argue that the evident utility of scenario-based modeling can be greatly enhanced when enriched with a mathematically precise notion of conditionality and partiality, such as that found in Triggered Message Sequence Charts (TMSCs). Unlike traditional Message Sequence Charts, the TMSC formalism allows scenarios to be conditional and partial, supports logical as well as behavioral operators fo...