Data-driven environmental governance within the standard regulatory regime routinely relies on unmeasurable, missing, or abjected data. Technocrats typically use data surrogates to alleviate this pervasive problem. By combining feminist technoscience and critical justice approaches, article argues that are far more than fungible substitutes rely scientific rationality transcendent objectivity. ...

The security of gas supply is one the main concerns for European Union (EU), especially when considering EU’s dependence on Russian gas. idea importing liquefied natural (LNG) from United States has recently emerged as an alternative to reduce EU dependency Russia. However, still needs be evaluated­, extent which it beneficial or practicable security. Composing does appropriate indicator, namel...

This article reviews three recent books on the EU: T.R. Reid’s The United States of Europe:The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy (Penguin, New York, 2004); Mark Leonard’s Why Europe will Run the 21st Century (Fourth Estate, London, 2005); and Jeremy Rifkin’s The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (Tarcher/Penguin, New York, 2...

This work examines the impact of German sources of capital on the Namibian economy. Two sets of equations are tested. The first set tests the effect that German development assistance and German capital goods have had on domestic GDP. The second set tests the effect of German development assistance on the Namibian government’s capital formation outlays. The German independent variables are subs...

The public nature of the blockchain has been shown to be a severe threat for the privacy of Bitcoin users. Even worse, since funds can be tracked and tainted, no two coins are equal, and fungibility, a fundamental property required in every currency, is at risk. With these threats in mind, several privacy-enhancing technologies have been proposed to improve transaction privacy in Bitcoin. Howev...

Applications such as software updaters or a run-away web app, even if low priority, can cause performance degradation, loss of battery life, or other issues that reduce a computing device’s availability. The core problem is that OS resource control mechanisms unevenly apply uncoordinated policies across different resources. This paper shows how handling resources – e.g., CPU, memory, sockets, a...

Amyris is a renewable products company providing sustainable alternatives to a broad range of petroleumsourced products. Amyris applies its industrial synthetic biology platform to convert plant sugars into a variety of molecules flexible building blocks that can be used in a wide range of products. Amyris’s initial portfolio of commercial products is based on Biofene, Amyris’s brand of farnese...

Temperament of healthy people and mental illnesses, particularly affective disorders, have been conjectured to lie along a continuum of neurobehavioural regulation. Understanding the nature of this continuum may better inform the construction of taxonomies for both categories of behaviour. Both temperament and mental illness refer to patterns of behaviour that manifest over long time scales (we...

The resource-based view on firm diversification, subsequent to Penrose (1959), has focused primarily on the fungibility of resources across domains. We make a clear analytical distinction between scale-free capabilities and those that are subject to opportunity costs and must be allocated to one use or another, thereby shifting the discourse back to Penrose’s (1959) original argument regarding ...