Last week we looked at structural issues. Specifically, the oversupply glut of 3 billion workers competing for the work that 800 million workers were doing before the internet opened the world to the emerging market supply chain. Think China’s massive infrastructure build out – the excess manufacturing and labor capabilities and also think about Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and India. Fifteen dolla...

It would not be rational to establish/operationalised a new climate fund if it is just the same as all the other existing international climate funds. Expectations are that the GCF will, in the longer term, will have an annual turnover in double digit billion dollar figures. It is also clear that such a turnover will not be possible at the outset, not only because of a lack of available funds, ...

I n this paper, we propose a new tactile sensory structure using integrated sensing elements what we call “tensor cell”. I t as located sparsely in a flexible body of tactile sensor, and samples there the complete information of stress tensor w,hich requires six degrees of freedom t o describe it. W e clarify first the advantage of this architecture theoretically based on the elastici t y theor...

abstractthe aim of intercultural translation is to communicate. communication is acted via verbal as well as visual means. the interaction of verbal and visual means of communication makes a set of complex situations which demand special attention in translation. one context in which the interaction of visual and verbal elements gets vital importance is children’s picture books. color is an int...

W hen I hear the phrase “humanimplantable electronics,” I must confess that I feel a bit queasy. It conjures up a more extreme image of pervasive computing than is usually justified. However, my perspective is that of a relatively healthy person in his 40s, without any physical handicaps. If my hearing was impaired or my heartbeat arrhythmic, I might be keen to find a remedy—and, at this time, ...

Lucretius’ De rerum natura is one of the relatively few corpora of Greek and Roman literature that is structured in six books. It is distinguished as well by features that encourage readers to understand it both as a sequence of two groups of three books (1+2+3, 4+5+6) and also as three successive pairs of books (1+2, 3+4, 5+6). This paper argues that the former organizations scheme derives fro...

Robots have received a great deal of publicity recently. The movie “Star Wars” and several television series such as “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “The Bionic Woman” have raised the consciousness of the public to the subject of robots. The enormous influx of foreign cars manufactured in part by robots has aroused awareness of the press and many politicians to the fact that robots can have a ...