I use the nuclear proliferation regime to show that dyadic diplomacy is not necessarily incompatible with the building of a multilateral regime; bilateralism is not the opposite of multilateralism, but an efficient component thereof+ Although this point will not be new to most students of institutions, no general rationale has so far been offered on the complementarity of bilateral and multilat...

Team member knowledge and expertise are the aspects typically considered important for software team development formation. However, the authors believe that the formation of teams, as is found in literature, could be based on factors related to the personalities of the members of the development team, and that these factors might affect both the quality of the software product developed and th...

Social scientists have sketched four distinct theories to explain a phenomenon that appears to have ramped up in recent years, the diffusion of policies across countries. Constructivists trace policy norms to expert epistemic communities and international organizations, who define economic progress and human rights. Coercion theorists point to powerful nation-states, and international financial...

data types support modularity and reusability.Because of the high reliability requirements of embedded systems andthe poor testing environments usually associated with them, it paysto have as much veri cation as possible performed in the developmentenvironment. An ADT-based language with strong type checking per-formed at compile-time helps considerably in improving reliabil...

The practitioners of village stability operations operate nearly entirely in the spaces of communities damaged by combinations of traumatizing violence, loss, displacement, starvation, death and dismemberment. Their organization, equipping and training is focused on the most apparent physical security and developmental needs by those who fund and support their deployments and to a lesser extent...

This paper introduces a strategy to develop geographic information systems, based on a variant of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The strategy adopts ontologies to model user classes and to capture additional characteristics of the information classes. The MVC components are modified to implement cooperativeness techniques, which interpret the ontologies. The paper also describe...

Our genome at conception determines much of our health as an adult. Most human diseases have a heritable component and thus may be preventable through editing. Preventing disease from the beginning life before irreversible damage has occurred is admirable goal, but path to fruition remains unclear. Here, we review significant scientific contributions field editing, unique ethical challenges tha...

This study focuses on the long-term development of crisis management central level in China. Drawing archival and interview data, it describes analyzes how governance capacity formal structure have changed, but also culturally based legitimacy has altered over past seventy years. These processes change are divided into three phases, punctuated by institutional shifts history institutions, where...

Although Manual Cued Speech (MCS) can greatly facilitate both education and communication for the deaf, its use is limited to situations in which the talker, or a transliterator, is able to produce cues for the cue receiver. The availability of automatically produced cues would substantially relax this restriction. However, it is unclear whether current automatic speech recognition (ASR) techno...

ion (Vitalari and Dickson, 1983). These concepts from the psychology literature converge, and are extended to social interaction, in the notion of a "frame" (Goffman, 1974; Tannen, 1993). The framing concept operates at the intersection of a psychological-cognitive and a social-behavioral approach to human interaction (Ensink and Sauer, 2003). People behave according to "structures of expectati...