The proud kente cloth has knowledge and cultural heritage which ceremonial, symbolic authority about the wearer that is best known mostly widely recognized of all textiles in Africa. Its unique features are wide invokes powerful emotions as well symbolizes fundamental nonverbal codes ever imagined Ghana cuts across religion, ethnicity instill national pride. purpose study was to establish messa...

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This paper describes a practical approach to storing and evaluating Horn-clause rules in a relational database system. The intention is to give a complete outline of what needs to be added to an existing relational database system to allow it to support full logic programming functions. Implementation issues for each new function are discussed. We show how Horn-clause rules can be translated in...

S Se e er r rv v vi i ic c ce e e C C Co o om m mp p po o on n ne e en n nt t t A A Ar r rc c ch h hi i it t te e ec c ct t tu u ur r re e e License The Service Component Architecture Specification is being provided by the copyright holders under the following license. By using and/or copying this work, you agree that you have read, understood and will comply with the following terms and condit...

Abstract This study investigates the design of royalty rate in a first-price auction across three types investments: incremental and lumpy with or without an exogenously given intensity. A bidder’s investment cost comprises private information. This, together stochastic evolution price output generated from auctioned project, precludes seller setting exact dates winner. However, can set to equa...

This paper investigates the choice of a licensing mechanism by the holder of a patent whose validity is uncertain. Focusing …rst on weak patents, i.e. patents that have a high probability of being invalidated by a court if challenged, we show that the patent holder …nds it optimal to use a per-unit royalty contract if the strategic e¤ect of an increase in a potential licensee’s unit cost on the...

Richard Stern’s Micro Law column in the May-June 2005 issue of IEEE Micro (“The Antitrust Ghost in the Standard-Setting Machine”) captured the essence of a long-running obstacle to addressing the anticompetitive patent “hold-up” (the term refers to the practice of pointing a gun at someone to induce him to share his wealth) that undermines the open-standards objectives of standards developing o...

a r t i c l e i n f o A large part of government revenues in Russia comes from royalties and export taxes on crude oil, oil products, and gas. Recently, the Russian government has considered reducing export taxes on crude oil and oil products compensated by an increase in the royalty on crude oil. The objective of the paper is to analyse the economy-wide effects of this proposal. Moreover, a hy...