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A social scientist may be overwhelmed by the sharp controversy among natural scientists about the basic problem of climate change in the globalisation process. Thus, global warming is contested as the true predicament of the environment is not known with certitude. Yet, the global dilemma of climate change may be analysed as a decision problem - classical game against Nature where mankind through its regional and international coordination mechanisms has to choose a decision rule to cope with the uncertainty about basic probabilities concerning potentially immense losses in certain scenarios. The article concludes that the minimax and the miniregret decision principles offer a prudent and cautious response to the coming energy-environment conundrum, of whatever its implications may be.
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An aid worker in Laos told me that "there is no stronger force in this world than a young man in his prime": full of energy, with the world at his fee...
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India, Brazil and South Africa belong to the most intractable blocking actors in the Doha Round. In order to explain this posture, reference is frequently made to the lack of willingness to compromise on the part of the other central actors EU and USA. In addition, the three countries' interests in the construction of an alliance of the South are cited as motivation for blocking the negotiations. This paper, however, accepts that trade policy is a two-level game and shows that the configurations of national decision processes in India, Brazil and South Africa and the resulting influence of specific interest groups significantly contribute to consolidating the blockade position. Against this backdrop, the authors are sceptical about the prospects of a compromise solution to the Doha Round.
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...(a) violations of the Laws of the Game;. (b) suspensions of up to four matches or up to t...
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Fighter production is transitioning from well-established aircraft to a new generation that offers major advances, in extreme cases combining short fi...
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Who do I want to see get sent down? The answer, of course, is Schmutzli (as he is known in the German-speaking part of the co...
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Elle--as we will call her--could be your aunt's best friend. She's in her late 50s, has an open face and is dressed comfortab...
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...Playing @ the Digital Game (1/2001). Back Office Operations in Barbados (1/20...
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The Swiss Aids Federation estimates that 14,000 women work as prostitutes in Switzerland, and about 550,000 male clients use ...
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One of Telge Glima's activities is performing. Dressed up like peasants 150 years ago, you can catch them present games like "Badger the Bear", "Hitting the Jug" or "Master of the Circle" at open-air museums like Stockholm's Skansen or Old Linköping. Or perhaps you'll come across them on some mediaeval festival, performing even older games, like backwards leaps, tug-of-war, or glima.
Next year we'll be celebrating and we're planning on going to the U.S. A few of us were in Texas in 2003 at a Viking festival, but this time we're all coming. We're looking into festivals and the likes where we could fit in. There are some ideas about where to go and what to do, but mainly we're open to any ideas. We'll perform as long as someone can provide us with a place to sleep, something to eat and a...