This paper examines whether policies to promote foreign direct investment (FDI) make economic sense. The discussion focuses on whether existing academic research suggests that the benefits of FDI are sufficient to justify the kind of policy…
Papers in Language Education
Language Education papers in Education, G
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Refurbishment work involves improvement, upgrading, renovation, retrofit, and repair of existing housing. With limited land usage and being aware of sustainability, the refurbishment market has faced increasing needs worldwide. During the long life…
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Cache partitioning and sharing is critical to the effective utilization of multicore processors. However, almost all existing studies have been evaluated by simulation that often has several limitations, such as excessive simulation time, absence of…
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53-609 (Carnegie-Mellon) - a lecture and project based course that teaches the mechanics and processes of good game design. The principles learned in this class apply equally well to card games, board games, party games, any types of games, and…
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New tools and techniques for the creation of virtual urban environments are increasingly used in various stages of urban planning. The continuous improvement of the informatics, in terms of calculation capability, ease of use and accessibility of…
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Table of contents for Visualization in landscape and environmental planning : technology and applications edited by Eckhart Lange and Ian D. Bishop. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress…
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This article provides an updated survey of recent advances in game-theoretic analyses of terrorism. In particular, it investigates the government's allocation of a fixed budget to counter attacks against potential targets. The choice between…
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Online gaming is one of the most profitable businesses on the Internet. Of all the genres of online games, MMORPGs (Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) have become the most popular among network gamers, and now attract millions of users…
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This historical analysis of Mahatma Gandhi's views on the JewishArab conflict in Palestine at the time of the British Mandate distinguishes four phases. The initial involvement is Gandhi's intervention in support of the Caliph's temporal rule in…
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Using intracellular lineage tracers to study the main neurogenic lineage (N lineage) of the glossiphoniid leech embryo, we have characterized events leading from continuous columns of segmental founder cells (nf and ns primary blast cells) to…
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Many introductory courses to cryptology and computer security start with or include a discussion of classical ciphers that usually contemplates some cryptanalysis techniques used to break them. Ganz a (picklock in Spanish) is an application designed…
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Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner. Smart customers will ask tough questions and consider getting a security assessment from a neutral third party before committing to a cloud vendor, Gartner says in a…
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The atmospheric impact of an old factory situated in an urban area has been studied, Two coupled cartridges of Tenax and polyurethane foam (PUF) have been used for trapping hexachlorocyclohexane and chlorobenzene isomers from air. The atmosphere in…
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The atmospheric concentration of gaseous ammonia has been measured during selected field campaigns from the spring of 2001 to the spring of 2002 in the urban area of Rome, at many traffic sites and at an urban background site. The concentration…
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There is an evident lack of reliable and detailed in situ measurement data for verifying numerical predictions of atmospheric dispersion in the urban environment on sub-meso scales. Wind-tunnel studies of dispersion around typical elements of the…
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The gas-exchange characteristics, leaf water potential and chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) seedlings subjected to water stress and recovery were investigated in a greenhouse experiment. At 24 days after…
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Abstract Gasoline consumption per capita in ten large United States cities varies by up to 40 percent, primarily because of land use and transportation planning factors, rather than price or income variations. The same patterns, though more extreme,…
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