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...007 introduced uncertainty into global markets, as higher prices, particularly for energy and food, increased inflationary pressures around the world... ...ign debt in the euro zone continue to cause concern. Sudden increases in food and energy prices could also hinder economic recovery and limit trade ... ...P II period was the uncertainty surrounding the successful completion of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) of trade negotiations among the WTO membe... ...E. ELECTRONIC COMMERCE The Electronic Commerce Steering Group (ECSG) promotes the development and use of electronic commerce by exploring how APEC e... ...e predictable, transparent and optimized to enable economies across all levels of development to utilize information and communications technology to... ...ize information and communications technology to drive economic growth and social development. The principles for the work of the ECSG are set out i... ...the Pathfinder 31 . The Pathfinder contains general commitments leading to the development of an APEC Cross- Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) system th...

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... Alternative Electrolyte Fuel-Cell Method, by V. Christianto, F. Smarandache.......................69 8. Observation of Anomalous Potential Electric Energy in Distilled Water under Solar Heating, by F. Smarandache & V. Christianto......................74 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CODIFICATION..............83 9. Algebraic Generalization of Venn Diagram, by Florentin Smarandac...

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... Alternative Electrolyte Fuel-Cell Method, by V. Christianto, F. Smarandache.......................69 8. Observation of Anomalous Potential Electric Energy in Distilled Water under Solar Heating, by F. Smarandache & V. Christianto......................74 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CODIFICATION..............83 9. Algebraic Generalization of Venn Diagram, by Florentin Smarandac...

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...aises US "scientific and technological innovations and new achievements in economic development". Somewhat tautologically, it also credits America's... ...countries and nations" and to serve as the "the beacon lighting up the way for the development of other countries and nations." If all else fails, ... ...ans to send a man to the moon. It invests heavily in basic science and research and development. It is moving gradually up the manufacturing food ch... ...ntralized as it is - its express goals are the rule of Islam and equitable economic development. It is bound to get its way in some countries. The ... ... Arabia. At the initiative of the Turkmen dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, the Russian energy giant Gazprom, headed by the then Russian Prime Minister ... ... "stabilized". For Pakistan, it has been a traditional national interest to secure energy supplies from Central Asia, since it is sandwiched betwee... ...powers, India and Iran. For Russia, this was seen as a way to control Central Asian energy resources and to extend its influence towards the Indian ... ...s the case, only Russia and perhaps China will have access to and hegemony over the energy resources in the vast Eurasian heart-land. I think this ... ...ndia, whose defence spending increased by 40% in the same period). Despite growing energy costs, inflation was tamed, down to 4% (2000) from 8% (19...

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...e local light barrier in the moderating baths of nuclear reactors by high-energy electrons then one can begin to see what is involved. To help us d... ...ets. Taking a lesson from that progression, we propose to accelerate the development of something along the lines of the interstellar ramjet propose... ...and experiment is this: 2020 - First Human sets boot on Mars; 2021 - Development begins of Bussard interstellar ramjet and SS Alpha 2037 - Fi... ...n absolute speed limit (...Not sure what that means any more?) is that no energy from a light signal would be returned to us from a body receding fa... ...infinitely high because water is a lossy medium; therefore impinging high-energy electrons are able to cross the barrier. The Cerenkov shockwave ca... ...of light (ideally and virtually), but those photons have lost all sensible energy. They have without question become unreal. And a superluminary sp... ... is performed such that "the motor travels with the ship" the KE [kinetic energy] for a given mass "ship" at a given velocity will increase if relat... ...me. It appears that Einstein never revisited the twins paradox after his development of the general theory. Differing accounts have surfaced sinc... ... then the trip would take but four years out and four years back under the developments so far. Nearly all of the ship's operations are given over...

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...farm * Life is dying out from irrigation canals * Should we have more development Villages and houses Place for a human community 51 Cultu... ...of shamans 102 * Power of sorcerers 103 * From tradition to belief in development 104 Buddhist religion Buddhism of the village community 1... ...seum. I came from Finland, wealthy Scandinavia, a country that believes in development, modernization, globalization, a planetary future. In Western d... ...here all society's problems should be resolved by scientific-technological development. Finland has wanted to imitate global development in everything... ...ure Framework of structural change Local environment - local resources and energy - local know-how and technology Local means of production - ideology... ... - local history Non-local (national) environment - external resources and energy - scientific-technological skill and knowledge - uniform education M... ...low, but it is very suitable for these conditions. It is a local source of energy in ploughing work, and we should ensure that the buffalo do not die ... ... adapted to local natural environment and utilize almost exclusively local energy, such as water buffalo, and the use of artificial fertilizers can be... ... income, an increasingly large proportion is spent on purchasing external energy and new technology, and in order to cope with the costs, he must be ...

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...und ourselves as one of the events selected by its collapse. postulation) of dark energy seems to restore entropy on the scale of the entire Unive... ... restore entropy on the scale of the entire Universe. Actually, the traits of dark energy (homogeneity, isotropy, lack of interaction with other fo... ...s of energy and matter, infinitesimal density, negative pressure) suggest that dark energy, the Cosmological Constant (Lambda) and quintessence fiel... ...intessence fields are merely other names for entropy and are not related to vacuum energy. Thus, a Big Rip as the outcome of cosmic acceleration ... ...nd Law of Thermodynamics. This is definitely true for our local supercluster. Dark energy also compensates for the entropy gap (between actual cosm... ...s. The number of points in a line served as the logical floodgate which led to the development of Set Theory by Cantor at the end of the 19 th cen... ... from one step of the ladder to another. The Darwinian notion of continuous, smooth development with strewn remnants ("missing links") attesting to ... ...e less energy in relating to them. Dynamics such as excitement, differentiation and development provoke such an excited state that it can disintegra... ...lists were ministers and other functionaries of Christian Churches. Three historic developments contributed to the propagation and popularity of ps...

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... or infinite force being needed to accelerate the rocket. Even if infinite energy is available it still will not cause the rocket to exceed the vel... ...llusionary. Pushing a particle through an accelerator indeed requires more energy to increase its velocity because its inertia measurably increases... ...so. We must make many assumptions about what relativity says about kinetic energy. However, we will simple state that the kinetic energy is as sta... ...2. If the effect of increasing inertia (mass) is real the object’s kinetic energy will increase as it moves faster because its relativistic mass is... ... If the effect of increasing inertia is not real then the object’s kinetic energy is what it is for a given mass and velocity of the object no matt... ... own energy. Such space-forms can help form life and a mind. Evolution, the development of more complicated material systems, can be seen as equival... ...oday we know better. But it is my conviction that in the present stage of development of theoretical physics the idea of an effectively infinite s...

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...mics also failed until recently to account for the role of innovation in growth and development. The discipline often ignored the specific nature of... ...n. Oligopolies are better placed to invest excess profits in expensive research and development in order to achieve product differentiation. Indeed,... ... sunken costs they incur - the initial expenditures and investments in research and development, machine tools, plant, and branding. To sum, thoug... ...ompetitive market - allow firms in an oligopoly to invest heavily in research and development. A new drug costs c. $800 million to develop and get... ...ics teaches us that life and motion are engendered by an irregular distribution of energy. Entropy - an even distribution of energy - equals death ... ...lihood. Russia, for instance, is heavily dependent on proceeds from the sale of its energy products. Most Montenegrins derive their livelihood, dir... ... my knowledge, been neglected before. Enormous amounts of time, efforts, money and energy are expended by the more "normal" – because of the "less ... ...r/brilliance/wealth/ideal love, etc. Being punished is a diversion of his precious energy and resources from the all-important task of fulfilling h... ... the managers, the businessmen. They are the movers, the shakers, the pushers, the energy. Without them, we have socialist economies, where everyth...

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...ain kind of music or entertaining certain thoughts seriously hampers the embryonic development – should we apply censorship to the Mother? Should ... ...nce and communication skills typical of human toddlers and of humans with arrested development. Yet, the latter enjoy rights denied the former. Ac... ...racing its Arab neighbors and by championing the causes of economic and scientific development, integration, and opposition to outside interference... ...tools in the "thinking scientist's" kit. As these metaphors develop, they trace the developmental phases of the origin. Consider the software-mind ... ... pastime. Nuclear fission is a process that yields both nuclear weapons and atomic energy. To claim, as many do, that cloning touches upon the "hea... ...e replete with dysfunctional appendages and redundant organs. Lightning bolts emit energy all over the electromagnetic spectrum. Pulsars and inters... ...sars and interstellar gas clouds spew radiation over the entire radio spectrum. The energy of the Sun is ubiquitous over the entire optical and ther... ...verse. There was supposed to be no preferred direction, no clustering of mass or of energy, no time, charge, or parity asymmetry in elementary parti... ...d long ago with the invention of the quantum theoretical device by Max Planck. The energy levels of particles no longer lay along an unhindered con...

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...ain kind of music or entertaining certain thoughts seriously hampers the embryonic development – should we apply censorship to the Mother? Should ... ...nce and communication skills typical of human toddlers and of humans with arrested development. Yet, the latter enjoy rights denied the former. Ac... ...racing its Arab neighbors and by championing the causes of economic and scientific development, integration, and opposition to outside interference... ...tools in the "thinking scientist's" kit. As these metaphors develop, they trace the developmental phases of the origin. Consider the software-mind ... ... pastime. Nuclear fission is a process that yields both nuclear weapons and atomic energy. To claim, as many do, that cloning touches upon the "hea... ...e replete with dysfunctional appendages and redundant organs. Lightning bolts emit energy all over the electromagnetic spectrum. Pulsars and inters... ...sars and interstellar gas clouds spew radiation over the entire radio spectrum. The energy of the Sun is ubiquitous over the entire optical and ther... ...verse. There was supposed to be no preferred direction, no clustering of mass or of energy, no time, charge, or parity asymmetry in elementary parti... ...d long ago with the invention of the quantum theoretical device by Max Planck. The energy levels of particles no longer lay along an unhindered con...

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...in town. So, why the fuss? Because of Amazon's customer list. This development emphasizes the growing realization that one's list of customer... ...but still woefully small and inadequate to support the internet's content development. Compare these figures to the sale of Internet software (4 bill... ... third world countries, such as (the notable example) India. Research and Development is routinely farmed out to aspiring first world countries such... ...Publishing has always been a social pursuit and depended heavily on social developments, such as the spread of literacy and the liberation of minorit... ...very little in the way of finances. We rely more on donations of time and energy than on donations of money. I, myself, haven't received my monthly ... ...nly half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of ex... ... and the abstract, the Platonic ideal and its inferior shadow, matter and energy. It is no less revolutionary than E=MC2. So, technology leads sci... ...re great myths, one of functionality and the other of purity. Matter and energy: These distinctions were preciously introduced by scientists thems... ... beyond that. I don´t know exactly what a fractal is, but is it matter or energy, information or reality? De-centralization and power: Your opin...

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... the physical one. Some people describe it as a mixture of colours, or an energy field. Some people say they appear to be composed of light with a ... ...ght with a barely perceptible structure of some kind. So, a conscious energy field would seem to be suggested here. Max Planck, the renowned p... ...eem to be suggested here. Max Planck, the renowned physicist, said: “Energy is the origin of all matter. Reality, true existence, is not matte... ...s not matter, which is visible and perishable, but the invisible, immortal energy – that is truth.” 19 There is then a sense of going through... ...nescent cities that defy earthly description. As light is electromagnetic energy, could this all be a vast energy field in which consciousness is d... ...ry physical process we encounter. Entropy is the manifestation of the development of the projections from the bosonic 110 energy field from h... ...early death of one of them on the physical plane would help the spiritual development of the surviving one, as this event would instigate a drastic... ...erienced by the higher pair as a direct result of the increased spiritual development of the surviving physical being during his lifetime due to th... ...wer selves too, each individual consciousness has its part to play in the development towards the omniscient consciousness of which we are already...

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...ow. In general, it is the cash which a firm has after sufficiently investing in its development, research and (predetermined) growth. Cash Flow Stat... ...o those of the competitors. • Warranties, guarantees and after-sales service. • Development of new products or services. • A general overview o... ... securing the funds necessary for the operations of the firm, the attainment of its development plans and its investments. 9. To fully computerize ... ...e needs of companies operating in the firm's market. 3. The encouragement of the development of in- house, proprietary, technological solutions to... ...s by harried British financiers. The collapse of Middle West Utilities, run by the energy tycoon, Samuel Insull, exposed a web of offshore holding ... ...recession throughout the industrialized world. The resultant drop in commodity and energy prices caused the slowdown to spread to developing countr... ...n which is bound to be mild by historical standards. Depending heavily on imported energy and exported goods, Europe's economy faced a marked slowd... ...a, and other low-wage Asian countries became important exporters; as the price of energy products and oil skyrocketed; and as real estate bubbles ... ...he government to regulate the prices of certain basic goods and services - such as energy, food staples, sewage, and water. But, in practice, golde...

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......................................................................... 42 ENERGY ....................................................................... ...o you want to focus on ends or means. If the end justifies the means, the development of these Asian economies are hallmarks to that concept. ... ...controlled. Freedom of speech and of the press are lovely ideals, but the energy used to answer the critics can be better used to advance the societ... ...ege educated women. To help this along the government established a Social Development Unit to act as matchmaker for unmarried university graduates. ... ...irit and make children less sure of themselves. This will then hinder the development of independence. Along these lines we emphasize that the child... ...rd the more conservative religions. No section of the Koran precludes the development of women and children. Many modern Muslims work to make people ... ...ty.” CONSERVATION ENERGY —“Tell us a bit more about your country. I know you are very ... ... are very advanced in many areas. How about your approaches to conserving energy?” —“Well, the conservation issue is essential. Our homes are... ...erson. Consequently you have an upper and a downer effect at the same time—energy and calmness. As with any psychoactive drug the withdrawal is oppos...

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...as prepared in collaboration with the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID) and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. THIS WORK IS NOT FOR PUBLI... ...Compiled by Lidija Rangelovska for the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID), July 1999. 24. “Statistical Yearbook of the Republic o... ...c of Macedonia, XXXIII, Skopje, November 1998, pp. 158-206 25. “National Development Strategy for Macedonia – Development and Modernization”, Maced... ...ugh outline (a full treatment would be both technical and lengthy) of the development of a "Keynesian" depression. One may begin by assuming (line 1... ...n many countries, unemployment is so entrenched that no amount of aid and development seem to affect it. This is the case in countries as diverse as ... ...ther role to IG BCE, the more nimble union of workers in the chemical and energy sectors. This much smaller new union signed the first collective ag... ...1994 Co-owner and Director of many business enterprises: – The Omega and Energy Air-Conditioning Concern – AVP Financial Consultants – Handiman Le...

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...hing from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied energy, insight, and a vii 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page vii sp... ...knowledgments ix ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ix development I write about here, and novelist Cory Doctorow has either blo... ...rant from the National Human Genome Research Institute and the Department of Energy (P50 HG003391-02). In addition, my thanks go out to the anonymous ... ...t does so at no cost to the user and without anyone guiding it. Imagine that energy, that decentralized and idio- syncratically dispersed pattern of i... ...at two warring ideas shaped—or are at least useful ways of understanding—the development of the droits d’auteur tra- dition. On one side were Diderot ... ...roups and industries thanks in part to the prescient analysis and remarkable energy of one of my colleagues, Peter Jaszi. 11 Together with Pamela Samu... ... the range of innova- tion and expression in between. (At least, we used to. Developments in data- base protection, gene patents, and business method ... ...se, the Supreme Court quite clearly saw that, in a world where technological developments made copying easier, the idea of contribu- tory infringement... ...ems can partly be traced to the fact that the defendants spent most of their energy on the argument that code was expression, paying less attention to...

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...the Apple II, only Apple would innovate for the iPhone. (A promised software development kit may allow others to program the iPhone with Apple’s permi... ...o make their computers’ operating systems appealing for third-party software development, since they profit handsomely from the sale of the platforms t... ... cultivated forms of amateur tinkering that became central to major software development. Both small and large third-party applications are now common... ...o a more generic “information service” for interactive weather and news. The development of this capability illustrates the relationships among the st... ...rofessionals in the sense that they could devote themselves full time to its development. They secured crucial government research funding and other s... ...esidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and run- ning code.” 34 Energy spent running the network was seen as a burden rather than a boon.... ...ng many persons who have much character—and that a high gen- eral average of energy is not desirable. In some early states of society, these forces mi...

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...t's Poor Prognosis FAQ # 2: Pathological Narcissism – A Dysfunction or a Blessing? FAQ # 3: The Energy of Self FAQ # 4: Self-Love and Narcissism F... ...st FAQ # 46: Treatment Modalities and Therapies FAQ # 47: Narcissistic Mirroring FAQ # 48: The Development of the Narcissist FAQ # 49: The Narciss... ... from the very beginning of our relationship you placed your trust and hopes in me, derived your energy, direction, stability, and confidence from m... ...e narcissistic traits of adolescents – narcissism is an integral part of their healthy personal development – and the full-fledged disorder. Adolesc... ... 90-91 30. Stern, Daniel. The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology. New York, Basic Books, 19... ...way he "sees" himself). The narcissist maintains this projected image and invests resources and energy in it, sometimes depleting him to the point ... ...sist is the person most insensitive to his true needs. The narcissist drains himself of mental energy in this process. This is why he has none lef... ...rate contraptions in lieu of answers. Why should people indulge the narcissist, divert time and energy, give him attention, love and adulation? The ... ... Id and Superego are neutralized. Early in his career, Freud believed narcissism to be a normal developmental phase between autoeroticism and object...

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...m-Webster defines INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY as ―the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and netwo... ...ystems developed elsewhere While writing with cuneiform continued under development in Mesopotamia, other pictograph systems began appearing in In... ...graphic writing‘s thousands of symbols. Asian histories emphasize that development of wood-block printing led to the rise in China of a highly li... ..., pieces of horn, and sinew crafted together. Even though it took less energy to pull and release their bowstrings, these shorter bows transferre... ...to pull and release their bowstrings, these shorter bows transferred more energy to the arrows than did ordinary bows. By the time Kublai Khan was... ...Armenians, Buddhists, and Muslims. Kublai Khan‘s reign spawned numerous developments in Chinese culture. Besides allowing religious freedom, he cr... ...ld frame comprehensive laws in physics stating that matter, momentum, and energy neither created nor destroyed but exchanged. In the 1400s Arabic ... ...ce the book without mentioning his former partner Gutenberg‘s role in its development. The Fust-Schoeffer firm became famous, but Fust died of th... ... tedious, and mistake-prone job of copying, scholars with newfound mental energy were free to expand boundaries for sharing knowledge exponentially....