, international trade of goods and services, advanced business services, multinational production rms and their ancillary networks, communication media, and highly skilled speciality labour. Most jobs are in fact not global, but all economies are under the in uence of the movements of their globalized core

-enabled wide area file system show that in the common case CRISIS adds only marginal overhead relative to unprotected wide area accesses. 1 Introduction One of the promises of the Internet is to enable a new class of distributed applications that benefit from a seamless interface to global data

that the media have become the social space where power is decided. It shows the direct link between politics, media politics, the politics of scandal, and the crisis of political legitimacy in a global perspective. It also puts forward the notion that the development of interactive, horizontal networks

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The search for animal host origins of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus has so far remained focused on wildlife markets, restaurants and farms within China. A significant proportion of this wildlife enters China through an expanding regional network of illegal, international

The impact of the global economic crisis on the Mexican automotive suppliers and its effects on the labor capital are analyzed. Owing to the complexity of the subsystems involved in the automotive industry, a system dynamics approach was selected to develop the simulation model based on a case

The financial crisis has exerted influences of different degrees within a global scope, and, in the meanwhile, has brought about definite risks to the electric charge management in electric network enterprises. This paper makes a comprehensive analysis of prominent risks and characteristic changes

direction of a society? We address this question with the help of a Cooperative Decision Making model (CDMM) which has been shown to generate consensus through a phase-transition process. We observe that in a system of a finite size the global consensus state is not permanent and times of crisis occur when

It is generally known that software system development lifecycle (SSDL) should be managed adequately. The global economy crisis and subsequent depression have taught us certain lessons on the subject, which is so vital for enterprises. The paper presents the adaptive methodology of enterprise SSDL