in 2008, the organisation of gas exporting countries (ogec) was formally established with 11 members in doha, qatar. while having economic and business nature, the organisation is seen as the gas opec, having the potential for changing the geo-strategic and geopolitical structure of the world. therefore, it is regarded as a threat by europe and the us to the security of their energy supply. isl...

Software development based on Commercial Off-the-Shelf products is subject to multiple sources of uncertainty. One potential source of uncertainty is the license costs of the COTS product used in the system. The management of such uncertainty requires strategies that effectively mitigate the underlying risk with minimal impact on the economic value generated. This paper presents such a strategy...

It is shown here that the Solow (1956) neo-classical growth paradigm not only explains the “first” stylised fact of economic growth, namely the existence of a globally stable state of balanced growth, but, once endowed with a demographically founded formulation of the labour supply, is also capable to endogenously explain a second main stylised fact of growth, i.e., the generation of globally s...

The present debate concerning the National Information Infrastructure (NII)[1] has focused primarily on the introduction of competitive markets for the supply and distribution of information. Although competition will be an important component of the NII, and one which we welcome, we argue that it is inappropriate to frame the debate entirely in terms of competition. Competition can be seen as ...

Rice is the major foodgrain of the world and it is the principle cereal consumed in India and other parts of Asia1. Milling of paddy to obtain edible rice grain yields two major byproducts of economic and nutritional importance, namely, paddy husk and rice bran. Paddy husk has no food value but has several industrial uses. Rice bran, on the other hand, can serve as an animal feed, as a human fo...

Information Technology plays an important role in improving organizational competitiveness and as a result the economic growth of a country, particularly within the emerging context. This research in progress examines the extent of information communication technology (ICT) skills, use and adoption among owners of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Morocco. The framework for this analysis i...

A highly regio- and enantioselective cobalt-catalyzed sequential hydrosilylation/hydrogenation of alkynes was developed to afford chiral silanes. This one-pot method is operationally simple and atom economic. It makes use of relatively simple and readily available starting materials, namely alkynes, silanes, and hydrogen gas, to construct more valuable chiral silanes. Primary mechanistic studie...

What modern game theorists describe as “fictitious play” is not the learning process George W. Brown defined in his 1951 paper. His original version differs in a subtle detail, namely the order of belief updating. In this note we revive Brown’s original fictitious play process and demonstrate that this seemingly innocent detail allows for an extremely simple and intuitive proof of convergence i...

The old ungraded school, whatever else may bo said about it, had one splendid feature that the graded school has never attained; namely, its instruction was individualistic. On the other hand, the graded school has come to us as an administrative necessity; its economic aspect is unmistakable, and it has made possible the education of the masses. Once with us, we were quick to discern that the ...

This paper presents a multidisciplinary methodology for developing public eProcurement (eProc.) projects in countries whose economy are either emerging, developing or in transition. The focus is on the first part of the methodology, namely eReadiness. Our aim is to bring out a number of issues, which are currently challenging many eGovernment projects through an integrated approach by encompass...