The Domestic Benefits Tropical forests can potentially produce hydrological benefits of Tropical Forests and yield economically vafuable nontimber forest A Critical Review Emphasizing products. But the levels of these benefits are poorly Hydrological Functions understood, likely to be highly context-specific. and Kenneth M. Chomitz may often be smaller than Kanta Kumari popularly supposed. This...

In a model of oligopolistic competition in the banking sector, we analyse how the monetary policy rule chosen by the Central Bank can in ̄uence the incentive of banks to set high interest rates on loans over the business cycle. We exploit the basic model to investigate the potential impact of EMU implementation on collusion among banks. In particular, we consider the possible e€ects of the Europ...

The Albany cagera showed that they a r e a team to be reckoned with Monday as they survived a 10 minute period of woeful shooting and miserable passing, and still came on strong at the end to win by 7. The Sauersmen played as well as would be expected for the first 20 minutes, and the Indians from Loudonvllle definitely appeared to be outclassed in almost . all aspects of the game. However, whe...

President Vladimir Putin’s domination of Russia’s politics, coupled with the apparent stability of the regime, have contributed to the relative neglect of domestic politics in explaining Russia’s foreign policy. This article seeks to overcome this lapse and argues that the evolving distribution of political and economic power under the surface of Putin’s leadership has been influencing the proc...

As distributed collaborative applications and architectures are adopting policy based management for tasks such as access control, network security and data privacy, the management and consolidation of a large number of policies is becoming a crucial component of such policy based systems. In large-scale distributed collaborative applications like web services, there is the need of analyzing po...

Rice administrators had no response this week to students protesting that Rice's Naval ROTC conflicts with university policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual preference. Attention was called to the controversial issue in a letter sent to President Malcolm Gillis and all seven trustees of the Board of Governors by the Gays and Lesbians of Rice. The letter, also published in the Aug. 2...

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...

Central bankers are used to acting under uncertainty in fact, this is a major rationale for their existence. The Eurosystem i.e. the ECB and the euro area national central banks has undergone and, I believe, successfully passed a special test on “Monetary policy under uncertainty” in managing the transition to EMU and in conducting monetary policy during the first one and a half years of the eu...

BACKGROUND Current Canadian evidence illustrating the health benefits and cost-effectiveness of caregiver-friendly workplace policies is needed if Canadian employers are to adopt and integrate caregiver-friendly workplace policies into their employment practices. The goal of this three-year, three study research project is to provide such evidence for the auto manufacturing and educational serv...