— The global economic crisis raised the urgency of reforming the Bretton Woods organizations in order to get more “buy in” from developing countries. But the “voice” reforms announced in 2010, heralded as a major shift in favor of developing countries, left them severely under-represented relative to their weight in the world economy, both collectively and many individually. This paper reveals ...

Sustainable biomass can play a transformative role in the transition to a decarbonized economy, with potential applications in electricity, heat, chemicals and transportation fuels1–3. Deploying bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) results in a net reduction in atmospheric carbon. BECCS may be one of the few cost-e ective carbon-negative opportunities available should anthrop...

the us hegemony seems to be on decay since the second decade of the twenty-first century. since most of america›s economic and military rivals, are rising from asia, this amazing transition marks a historic re-location of power centers from the west eastward, and the end of western civilization›s domination over global culture and politics, distinguishing this era from previous power transition...

the current economic crisis that plagued the west since 2008 and followed by the occupy wall street movement in 2011, were the results of the processes started since the last years of the cold war and has turned the western capitalist system into an unstrained ideology. the neoliberal economic model, globalization of economy, limitation of the power of the national governments, the emergence of...

Limited evidence exists on how the larger cultural framework affects psychological processes related to schooling. We investigated how the cultural dimensions of individualism/collectivism and power distance influence the sense of school belongingness using 2003 Programme for International Student Assessment survey data on 15-year-old students from 31 countries. Hierarchical linear modeling ana...

Prony Analysis is a technique used to decompose a signal into a series consisting of weighted complex exponentials and promises to be an effi cient way of recognizing sensitive lines during faults in power systems such as the U.S. Power grid. Positive Sequence Load Flow (PSLF) was used to simulate the performance of a simple two-area-four-generator system and the reaction of the system during a...

farm machinery managers often need to make complex economic decisions on machinery replacement. repair and maintenance costs can have significant impacts on this economic decision. the farm manager must be able to predict farm machinery repair and maintenance costs. this study aimed to identify a regression model that can adequately represent the repair and maintenance costs in terms of machine...

Estonian farms are connected to the common grid practically for 100%. Therefore efforts to improve the share of renewable energy resources in the agriculture must consider the impact on the common grid. Estonia is rich of wind energy, but its random character and rapid changes in velocity (causing high wind power increments) create problems for the wind turbines to be matched with the existing ...

The author claims that the globe was discovered by courageous adventurers and visionaries who had trust in geographical utopia that the Earth was round so they plunged into the unknown in their wretched sailboats. This stage ended in foundation of huge colonial empires but, eventually, this kind of violent colonization failed. What has been left from the first discovery of the globe? The most i...