Community involvement in local firearms policy is advocated to be an important component of efforts to curtail violence. This report describes the first evaluation of one such effort, a gun buy-back program conducted in Seattle, WA, during the fall of 1992. The evaluation included (a) surveys of 500 participants and a description of the firearms exchanged; (b) monitoring police reports, trauma ...

OUNTERTRADE is tied trade. In a typical transaction a CPE or LDC imports goods and the exporting party usually a firm in a western industrial country commits itself to make an offsetting purchase at some future date. Since the mid seventies countertrade has become a significant phenomenon in international trade. Reasonable estimates vary between 10 and 20 per cent of world trade (see OECD, 1985...

Futures contract is one of the most important derivatives that is used in financial markets in all over the world to buy or sell an asset or commodity in the future. Pricing of this tool depends on expected price of asset or commodity at the maturity date. According to this, theoretical futures pricing models try to find this expected price in order to use in the futures contract. So in this ar...

Cluster-based server architectures combine good performance and low cost, and are commonly used for applications that generate heavy loads. Essentially, a cluster-based server consists of a front-end dispatcher and several back-end servers. The dispatcher receives incoming requests, and then assigns them to back-end servers, which are responsible for request processing. The many benefits of clu...

Options or “privileges” as they were known in early 19th Century America actually appeared on the financial scene around the same times as stocks. Initially, there were numerous problems with the trading of options. The terms of the contract were different from contract to contract, contracts had to be exercised in person, and there really was no secondary market to trade. Options were eventual...

having child in family system is a serious challenge in the current era. there are different views about it among jurists: 1) having child is not as a religious identity and inherent appropriateness of marriage contract. 2) having child is a part of absolute appropriateness of marriage contract but this right is only dedicated to woman. 3) having child is not as a religious identity and part of...