Former U.S. astronaut Walt C u n n i n g h a m sha rp ly criticized the policy of cooperation with the Soviet Union in space flights and space technology before a standing-room-only audience in Ryon 201 last Tuesday night. H i s m a i n o b j e c t i o n to sharing space is that the United States would lose the cons iderable edge in technology it gained during the heyday of the space race. He e...

In recent years, the issue of war and USA's unilateral actions in Middle East strategic zone made numerous debates among researchers of international relations, politicians, and diplomats. This formed political literature emphasized on two issues: the first one is about the way war actions taking place and its legitimacy in countries, and the second and more important one is about efficiency of...

With the implementation of India’s new map policy user community is looking towards a transformation in the spatial database (from Everest 1830 ellipsoid, Polyconic projection system to WGS 84 ellipsoid, UTM projection system). To bring them on same platform, problem of existence of different transformation parameters has to be dealt with, since due to unavailability of such data from Survey of...

This paper argues that the largely unrealized potential of agricultural science and technology (S&T) in promoting growth and poverty reduction in developing countries results from deeply rooted incompatibility among policy environments, institutional arrangements, and micro conditions and behavior in agricultural research and development (R&D). Achieving growth and poverty reduction based on gr...

This paper considers a concurrent pricing and inventory control problem in a stochastic and periodic review setting. Demand in a period is random and depends on the posted price. Other than holding and backlogging costs, the system incurs stock-replenishment costs that consist of both variable and fixed components. At the beginning of each period, a simultaneous decision has to be made on stock...

This paper derives an optimal (r; S) policy for uncertain multi-product newsboy problem. Demands for the products are estimated by experts and assumed to be independent uncertain variables. Uncertainty theory, which is a new mathematical tool to deal with human uncertainty, is employed to model demand distributions. A fixed setup cost and a linear ordering cost are incurred if products are orde...

The fact that U.S. inflation has been remarkably low and stable over the past two decades prompts questions as to whether or not inflation persistence has changed to a lower level too. This paper employs the recently developed structural stability test with multiple regime shifts to model U.S. inflation dynamics over the past half century. Our empirical results suggest that the persistence of i...

Two recent incidents point to divergent perspectives in governmental drug policies among Western European countries that have implications for the United States. A report in August 2002 by the Council of Europe’s narcotics monitoring Pompidou Group has stated that Oslo Norway is first among 42 European cities in the seizures of illicit drugs as well as deaths caused by the illegal substances.Ye...

Department of Clinical ABSTRACT Pharmacology, Seth G S ‘The National Health Policy 2002” of India and the “Roll Back Malaria” policy makers have set up an ambitious goal Medical College and of reducing malaria mortality and morbidity by 25% by 2007, and by 50% by 2010. To achieve these goals, KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai 400 012, problems should be identified, available evidence analyzed and pol...