This Essay is an attempt to go back to some of the principles and factors which lay behind the launching of the Uruguay Round and the package which resulted, to look at some of the current unease about the WTO, and to see where the institution may need to go to reassert its role to command fully public and political confidence once again. CONCLUDING THE URUGUAY ROUNDCREATING THE NEW ARCHITECTUR...

Krasol® polybutadiene diols are anionically polymerized products characterized by very narrow molecular weight distribution, linear structure of polymer chains and the absence of species with functionality higher than 0.2. These unique features make them suitable as hydrophobic polyol components for use in thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs). Various TPU formulations were developed using polybut...

Leaking underground concrete sumps used to store produced water have contaminated groundwater with gas condensate hydrocarbons at a gas production site near Ft. Lupton, Colorado. The source of contamination has been removed; however, a plume of hydrocarbon contamination extends some 46 m from the original source location. This is an agricultural area and the water table is rather shallow (about...

, Jessica Suplie and Elsa Tsioumani . The Digital Editors are Andrei Henry and Nabiha Megateli . The Editor is Pamela S. Chasek, Ph.D. and the Managing Director is Langston James “Kimo” Goree VI . The Sustaining Donors of the Bulletin are The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Aff...

A general theory of resource-bounded measurability and measure is developed. Starting from any feasible probability measure ν on the Cantor space C (the set of all decision problems) and any suitable complexity class C ⊆ C, the theory identifies the subsets of C that are ν-measurable in C and assigns measures to these sets, thereby endowing C with internal measure-theoretic structure. Classes C...

and Jessica Suplie . The Digital Editor is David Fernau . The Editor is Pamela S. Chasek, Ph.D. and the Managing Editor is Langston James Goree VI .The Sustaining Donors of the Bulletin are The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Canada (through CIDA and DFAIT), the United States (through US...

, Jessica Suplie and . The Editor is Pamela Chasek, Ph.D. and the Managing Editor is Langston James "Kimo" Goree . Digital editing by Ken Tong . The Sustaining Donors of the Bulletin are The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Government of Canada (through CIDA),...

Nanoindentation is used to determine the dynamic viscoelastic properties of six polymer materials. It is shown that varying the harmonic frequency of the nanoindentation does not have any significant effect on the measured storage and loss moduli of the polymers. Agreement is found between these results and data from DMA testing of the same materials. Varying the harmonic amplitude of the nanoi...

Symptoms of congestive heart failure frequently reflect abnormalities in both systolic and diastolic performance. While much work has been reported regarding the mechanisms by which positive inotropic and vasodilator therapy affect systolic performance, little is known about their effect on diastolic function. In 12 patients with diffuse congestive cardiomyopathy micromanometer left ventricular...

This paper presents main results of a shale stability study, related to the understanding of shale/ fluid interaction mechanisms, and discusses shale strength correlation. The major shale/ fluid interaction mechanisms: Capillary, osmosis, hydraulic, swelling and pressure diffusion, and recent experimental results are discussed. Factors affecting the shale strength are discussed, and a sonic com...