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Using examples and diagrams, this text seeks to explain the trends seen in the Christian Church community by continent and church. It describes patterns of nominalism and reports on causes of growth and decline, predicting that by 2010 there will be 1900 million Christians. ... Read more

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In this book, the author presents optimistic, socio-liberal conclusions about Islam in the world system. Countering some alarmist voices in the West, neither migration nor Muslim culture are to be blamed for the contemporary crisis, but the very nature of unequal capitalist accumulation and dependency that is at the core of the world capitalist system. For one, the analysis is based on current thinking on Kondratiev waves of world political development inherent in recent work by IIASA and the NATO Institute for Advanced Studies. Analyses are also presented on the framework of the debate on cross-national determinants of human well-being in the world system. While the author is cautiously optimistic about a socio-liberal, non-interventionist policy alternative, he has come to the conclusion that present patterns of global governance, modeled around the neo-liberal Washington Consensus and American hyperpower, are doomed for failure.A new, socio-liberal global consensus on global migration, global order and global governance could emerge instead. ... Read more

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The boreal forests of the world, geographically situated to the south of the Arctic and generally north of latitude 50 degrees, are considered to be one of the earth's most significant terrestrial ecosystems in terms of their potential for interaction with other global scale systems, such as climate and anthropologenic activity. This book, developed by an international panel of ecologists, provides a synthesis of the important patterns and processes which occur in boreal forests and reviews the principal mechanisms which control the forests' pattern in space and time. The effects of cold temperatures, soil ice, insects, plant competition, wildfires and climatic change on the boreal forests are discussed as a basis for the development of the first global scale computer model of the dynamical change of a biome, able to project the change of the boreal forest over timescales of decades to millennia, and over the global extent of this forest. ... Read more

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This book treats several topics on the global analysis oflinear differential equations in the complex domain, using originalmethods of analysis developed by K. Okubo and the present author. Forexample, global analysis of linear differential equations is closelyrelated to that of linear difference equations. Through the asymptoticbehaviour of solutions of linear difference equations, connectionproblems for hypergeometric systems can be solved, i.e. Fuchsiandifferential equations and Stokes phenomenon for Birkhoff systems.Furthermore, the calculation of monodromy groups is explained indetail. Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers andgraduate students whose work involves ordinary differential equations,special functions, finite difference, functional equations,approximations and expansions, and symbolic/algebraic manipulation. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, published by Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs on February 1, 2010. The length of the article is 8751 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Appendix E. British, U.S., and European Central Bank operations, April to mid-October 2008.(The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications)(Appendix)
Author: Dick K. Nanto
Publication: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs (Report)
Date: February 1, 2010
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This book applies the "regime thoery" to the question of how the global commons can beeffectively sustained through international cooperation. With growing awareness of the scale and implications of global environmental change, this is an increasingly significant issue of international relations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, published by Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs on February 1, 2010. The length of the article is 41103 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Appendix A. Major recent actions and events of the global financial crisis.(The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications)(Appendix)
Author: Dick K. Nanto
Publication: Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs (Report)
Date: February 1, 2010
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This digital document is an article from Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs, published by Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue Briefs on February 1, 2010. The length of the article is 2654 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Origins, contagion, and risk.(The Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Policy Implications)(Report)
Author: Dick K. Nanto
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The deadly spread of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases -- especially in Africa, where the strain on public health authorities is at breaking point -- underscores the critical need for an international regime of public health law. This book provides the first comprehensive presentation of the complex relationship between international law and public health, with primary materials on the entire spectrum of international legal issues that arise in connection with global public health. In support of the legal texts presented, the author analyses the political milieu in which international public health law must be approached, examining the actual and potential roles of the World Health Organisation and in influential international legal regimes of trade and human rights, as well as international environmental law, humanitarian law, and international labour law. Among the emerging issues discussed in the context of public health are genetic engineering and the global ageing crisis. ... Read more

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This volume (a sequel to LNM 1108, 1214, 1334 and 1453)continues the presentation to English speaking readers ofthe Voronezh University press series on Global Analysis andIts Applications. The papers are selected fromtwo Russianissues entitled "Algebraic questions of AnalysisandTopology" and "Nonlinear Operators in Global Analysis".CONTENTS: YuE. Gliklikh: Stochastic analysis, groups ofdiffeomorphisms and Lagrangiandescription of viscousincompressible fluid.- A.Ya. Helemskii: From topologicalhomology: algebras with different properties of homologicaltriviality.- V.V. Lychagin, L.V. Zil'bergleit: Dualityinstable Spencer cohomologies.- O.R. Musin: On some problemsofcomputational geometry and topology.- V.E. Nazaikinskii,B.Yu. Sternin, V.E.Shatalov: Introduction to Maslov'soperational method (non-commutativeanalysis anddifferential equations).- Yu.B. Rudyak: The problemofrealization of homology classes from Poincare up to thepresent.-V.G. Zvyagin, N.M. Ratiner: Oriented degree ofFredholm maps of non-negativeindex and its applications toglobal bifurcation of solutions.- A.A.Bolibruch: Fuchsiansystems with reducible monodromy and theRiemann-Hilbertproblem.- I.V. Bronstein, A.Ya. Kopanskii: Finitely smoothnormal forms of vector fields in the vicinity of a restpoint.-B.D. Gel'man: Generalized degree of multi-valuedmappings.- G.N.Khimshiashvili: On Fredholmian aspects oflinear transmission problems.-A.S. Mishchenko: Stationarysolutions of nonlinear stochastic equations.- B.Yu. Sternin,V.E. Shatalov: Continuation of solutions toellipticequations and localisation of singularities.- V.G. Zvyagin,V.T. Dmitrienko: Properness of nonlinear ellipticdifferential operators in H|lder spaces. ... Read more

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Is there a safe harbour for multinational enterprises operating in a global economy? This book assesses whether Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) constitute a suitable solution to the major problems and controversies in the area of transfer pricing.The 1980s brought increased confrontation between taxpayers and tax administrators and between jurisdictions implementing and enforcing diverging transfer pricing legislation. The author analyses the legal characteristics of APAs; practical problems regarding their implementation; and the benefits, drawbacks, and alternatives confronted by the parties to such agreements.This study is in large measure based on the U.S. procedures on APAs which make up the most advanced regulation in this field. In addition, the work describes the worldwide practice on APAs, the OECD guidelines, and the APA procedures of other jurisdictions which basically follow U.S. legislation. Its informativeness and extent of coverage make this work essential reading for practitioners, in-house counsel, and academics active in the area of international taxation. ... Read more

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In the new age of globalisation, business corporations implement global corporate structures and strategies such as cross-border sales of securities, cross-border listing of securities, and cross-border mergers and take-overs. These structures operate in the context of increasing world-wide pressure for, and the implementation of national economic policies of liberalisation and deregulation, the intensification of international economic relations and interdependence. This book analyses the dynamics of global corporate interconnection between developing countries and developed countries through cross-border securities transaction such as, cross-border listing of securities, cross-border mergers and take-overs. Particularly, the book examines the effects of such corporate interconnection on corporate governance in developing countries and the developed countries, such as the US, with which they interconnect. ... Read more