Over the past two decades, Gulf states have emerged as leading humanitarian actors both regionally and globally. This paper charts evolution of four six states–Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar–as donors actors. It analyses evolving sectors states, focussing on trends in funding, increasing centralisation governance, growing capacities logistics operations. then considers ...

We analyse the economic impact of using carbon pricing revenue to fund EU budget. Such a reform would redistribute from countries with above average intensive production less countries. Once is implemented, low will prefer lower price, i.e. laxer climate policy at level, than before reform. For high opposite true. As result, becomes ambitious and disputed. also an extension model in which consu...

We propose an approach to Distributed Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental centralisation of full-text indices of widely dispersed and autonomously managed content sources. Inspired by the success of the Open Archive Initiative’s protocol for metadata harvesting, the approach occupies middle ground between: (i) the crawling of content, and (ii) the distribution of retriev...

While the managerial rationale for adopting customer relationship management (CRM) has been fairly well articulated in the literature, research on strategy development is scant. Moreover, reports of “CRM failures” in the popular business press have done little to inspire confidence. To date, what little research has been conducted in the area of CRM strategy development has been confined to a s...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Distortions of vocalic space: which measurements? An application to dysarthria. This paper presents several metrics derived from F1/F2 measurements for the description and quantification of the possible variations to be observed in a vocalic space. 8 metrics from the literature or ad...

Since the 1980s, successive UK governments have sought to increase efficiency in, and effectiveness of, policing through what has been described as “cycles of reform” (Reiner, 2000, p. 204). The reforms typically involved exerting greater central control over regional police forces. Many of the early initiatives met with resistance from within the police and, as a result, were not fully impleme...

An approach to evaluating the cost-effectiveness of high-technology diagnostic equipment has been devised, using the introduction of computerised axial tomography (CAT) as a model. With the advent of CAT scanning, angiography and air encephalography have a reduced, though important, role in investigating intracranial disease, and the efficient use of conventional equipment requires the centrali...

An institute’s economic capital allocation taking efficiency aspects into account requires the coexistence of a certain centralisation and delegation. On the one hand information pooling concerning portfolio optimization kind considerations is afforded. On the other hand exclusively possessed knowledge by decentralized entities has to be used through delegation of decision rights. Information a...

This conference proceeding presents an empirical assessment on the domestic publication output and structure of scientific collaboration of Malaysian authors for the field of physics. Journal articles with Malaysian addresses for the subject area “Physics” and other sub-discipline of physics were retrieved from the Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge database spanning the years 1980 to 2011. A sci...