At the UK Political Studies Association Conference, held at the University of Glasgow on April 10-12 1996, the British Territorial Politics Group of the Association held a panel on New Labour and Devolution. Regional Studies subsequently invited panellists to submit their papers to the Policy...

The data on the intensity distribution of solar radiation is essential for the designer to size solar energy systems, required for specific applications. The solar irradiance monitor has been developed to measure and record solar irradiance data from morning to evening at intervals of 1 min...

Requirements for manufacturing control evolve from traditional centralised approaches where decision making is hierarchically broadcasted to more complex distributed control architectures involving autonomous entities and processes. Moreover, manufacturing processes are facing standardisation...

Ce papier présente une nouvelle approche pour l'évaluation empirique des élasticités de demande d'importation. Cette approche utilise un système de demande d'importation flexible (Almost Ideal Demand System : AIDS) couplé d'un modèle économétrique incorporant une spécification du terme...

This paper develops and estimates a structural model of imperfect competition in international markets. The model incorporates a flexible non-linear demand framework with structural price equations. A general conjonctural variation approach is developed to characterize strategic interaction....

Cet article presente un modele de donnees de panel dans lequel les regresseurs peuvent varier dans le temps, selon les individus, ou les deux. Certains regresseurs sont supposes endogenes. Lo'bjectif est ici est d'etendre les methodes d'estimation des modeles a un seul effet au modele a deux...

The law surrounding third party nuclear liability is important to all parties in the nuclear supply chain whether they are providing decommissioning services, project management expertise or a new reactor. This paper examines third party nuclear liability, and in particular, in relation to a...

This article deals with the business prospects of the biotechnology industry and portrays it as ‘global sunrise’ industry. The biotech industry classification and the recent trends are outlined in the first part. The structure and the pattern of the industry in different countries...

This paper focuses on positive dimensions and possibilities in the migration-development relationship. It highlights the links between migration, development and conflicts from the premises that to align policies on migration and development, migrant and refugee diasporas. The present study is...

The introduction of the Euro was expected to spur the creation of a stable and systemic financial system in Europe. Though the Euro's inception represented the biggest change in the international monetary system since the formation of IMF and World Bank, the currency has lost its credibility due...