In this paper we consider an international environmental problem of stock pollution with sources from different countries. However the pollution is perceived as an important environmental problem only by some of these countries. This may be because of diversity in nature’s assimilative capacity across countries, or because of differences in attitudes towards the environment due to divergence in income or institutional settings. One such example is the problem of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. In the southern parts of the Baltic Sea –due to some geophysical characteristics – there are less local problems from loads of nutrients, that imply major environmental problem to other parts of the Baltic See. Further the institutional history of some former East-European countries such as Poland tends to give less priority to the problem of eutrophication in the Baltic Sea. In our model, countries that care about stock pollution are allowed to diminish foreign emissions through allocation of their income abroad, with the only purpose to lower foreign emissions entering to their own country. In this setting there are no strategic behaviors, which usually characterize modelling of international environmental behaviors. Thus we can compute the optimal amount

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In this paper, I attempt to advance the concept of embeddedness beyond the level of a programmatic statement by developing a formulation that specifies how embeddedness and network structure affect economic action. On the basis of existing theory and original ethnographies of 23 apparel firms, I

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this article, we discuss the fundamentals of distributed DBMS technology. We address the data distribution and architectural design issues as well as the algorithms that need to be implemented to provide the basic DBMS functions such as query processing, concurrency control, reliability, and replication control.

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This book presents a unified treatment of many different kinds of planning algorithms. The subject lies at the crossroads between robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, algorithms, and computer graphics. The particular subjects covered include motion planning, discrete planning, planning under uncertainty, sensor-based planning, visibility, decision-theoretic planning, game theory, information spaces, reinforcement learning, nonlinear systems, trajectory planning, nonholonomic planning, and kinodynamic planning.

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