... discord over the nine-dotted-line map Keywords China, the Philippines, South China Sea Introduction The South China Sea (SCS) is notorious for the protracted sovereignty dispute over the Spratly ... Since the People’s Republic of China (China) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) maintain broadly similar claims on the South China Sea (SCS) issues, the discussion in this article focuses on the ... Guoxing, “Outer Continental Shelf Claims in the South China Sea: A New Challenge to China? ??s U-Shaped Line,” in International Workshop on Non-traditional Security Cooperation in the South China Sea...
Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2017, 06:37
... disputes over the Paracels and Spratlys in the South China Sea In the East China Sea, the Chinese preliminary information states that China will “through peaceful negotiation, delimit the continental ... made a joint submission to the CLCS relating to a “defined area” in the south of the South China Sea. 45 The area is generated and bound by the intersection point of the envelope of arcs of the 200-nautical-mile ... disputes such as in the South China Sea Keywords continental shelf, South China Sea Introduction The purpose of this article is to examine the submissions on the outer limit of the continental shelf...
Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2017, 06:08
Contemporary maritime piracy in southeast asia
... activities in Southeast Asia and their relations with the Chinese empires; the third part discusses Chinese pirates in the South China Sea; the fourth analyses piracy in the Malay Archipelago and how the ... and Nanhai [literally the southern sea] are the Chinese terms for Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean Wang Gungwu, The Nanhai Trade: Early Chinese Trade in the South China Sea (Singapore: Eastern Universities ... had dwindled by the beginning of the 20th century This decline will be detailed in the following chapter After the end of the Cold War, however, piracy in Southeast Asia and the South China Sea...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 10:44
U.S. Interests in Central Asia - Policy Priorities and Military Roles pdf
... disappeared The United States maintains an interest in the continued independence of these states, in the development of the energy resources of the region, and in the relationships of these states ... Enduring Freedom continues The facilities in place remain critical to the missions they support, even if some are now winding down Whether OEF indicates a lasting requirement for a U.S presence there ... had few economic interests in the area other than energy The increasing legal, bureaucratic, and other constraints on foreign businesspeople in Uzbekistan led many to leave the country Turkmenistan...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20
Who Pays for Medical Errors? An Analysis of Adverse Event Costs, the Medical Liability System, and Incentives for Patient Safety Improvement ppt
... In cases involving adverse events, two study investigators (internal medicine physicians) independently reviewed the case and judged whether the injury was preventable Cases about which the investigators ... rendering care in hospitals to play a contributory role in most medical injuries that occur in the inpatient setting Further, we believe that few of the physicians who would have been involved in the ... account for the insurer’s uncertainty about this estimate) Hospitals also incur other kinds of organizational costs associated with medical injuries, such as the cost of maintaining a risk-management...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Agriculture Sector Research Priorities and Investment Framework 2011-2015 " pptx
... representation involving both the users and the suppliers of research will increase the confidence in the quality of the results and therefore the use of the results in the research funding allocation ... from Provincial budgets will also increase In spite of these increases, in real terms the budget has effectively kept pace with inflation Currently the use of Cost Norms for determining research ... capacity for the Crops sub-sector was well in excess of the research potential Research capacity in the other sub-sectors was considered pretty much in balance with the perceived research potential...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20
Getting organized at work: 24 lessons to set goals, establish priorities and manager your time
... respond to Train others to write you better e-mails: Ask others to put the reason they’re sending an e-mail to you in the subject line and what they want and when they specifically need it in the first ... BE OBTAINED FROM USING THE WORK, INCLUDING ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN BE ACCESSED THROUGH THE WORK VIA HYPERLINK OR OTHERWISE, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT ... doing everything immediately: The single most counterproductive event you experience daily is doing everything the second someone asks or you think of it Start negotiating new requests so they...
Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 20:46
Equilibrium characterization and incentives in large games
... expect We are interested in the proportion of women in Cairo choosing to veil themselves and how it can constitute an equilibrium In the veiling problem, as mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, ... not contain any endpoints of the subintervals in S List the subintervals in S as S1 , S2 , · · · , Sm 24 in an increasing order, with S1 or Sm possibly of length less than Ei = E Si Then Ei + ... on the true states of nature, the events generated by the private signals of the agents in the finite cohort have strictly no influence over the rest of the agents, though the signals for the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 21:28
Vietnam in the TPP Negotiations: Opportunities, Priorities and Challenges
... infringement and lax IPR enforcement are disincentives for U.S investment, addressing these will be key Increase in IP violations over the Internet Stepped-up enforcement will boost U.S investment ... collective bargaining, free press, censorship) Colombia FTA analogy 47 Challenges Confronting U.S Business VI Challenges Confronting U.S Business In the United States In the end, if a ... Confronting U.S Business VI Challenges Confronting U.S Business In the United States Challenge to get a well-balanced agreement that can pass in a Congress controlled by either party, and then...
Ngày tải lên: 10/10/2015, 22:33
Global business leader survey risk priorities and preparedness
... confidence Across the full range of regions and industries, companies are postponing investment, cutting costs and retrenching into core markets In the most general terms, they are reining in their risk ... respondents in China, in stark contrast to the rest of the world, where this was much less of a concern This discrepancy reflects both the high incidence of the problem within China, but also the increasing ... centres than in some other European capitals, with risk confined mainly to the North Caucasus The incidence of violence against businesses has diminished in comparison with the first half of the 1990s...
Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:08
Circuit theory of finance and the role of incentives in financial sector reform
... placing money with investment financial institutions in the capital market, and hold the remaining share in noninterest bearing, short-term bank deposits (eq 7) The share of savings going to the ... profitability is declining The internalization of information within the same institution may thus enhance intra-circuit and inter-circuit stability by reducing the incentive to overfinancing The demand ... Creating a stronger investor base amounts to strengthening the circuit by completing the financial market structure of the economy, thus eliminating discontinuities in the transmission of information...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33
hobbies and interests
... are discussing the information in part A Did you guess correctly? Correct your answers C Pair work How much time you spend doing the things in part A? I think I spend more time watching TV about ... I’d rather spend free time with Nick because I also enjoy… Activity A Pair work describe each hobby below Use the words in the box and your own ideas I think shopping is relaxing and satisfying ... broken things sweep the floor wash dishes B Pair work Compare your answers Then discuss these questions * Are there any chores you enjoy doing? What are they? * What chores you dislike the most?...
Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2013, 01:26
Tài liệu Global Farming Systems Study: Challenges and Priorities to 2030 SYNTHESIS AND GLOBAL OVERVIEW doc
... preliminary estimates, for future refinement 49 Rice-Wheat Farming System This farming system covers 19 percent of the land in the region, and dominates the Indo-Gangetic plain, including the Terai ... It includes parts of Sind, Punjab and North West Frontier Province in Pakistan, large areas of Central, Southern and Western India, the northern part of the Terai bordering the Shivaliks and the ... other foodgrains have been declining and the opening of economies exposes farmers to these forces – especially in the intensive rice-based, rice-wheat, hill and rainfed mixed farming systems The...
Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15
Tài liệu Biobased Industrial Products Priorities for Research and Commercialization ppt
... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... Illinois, developed zein into a textile fiber in the late 1940s Scientists generated the fiber by dissolving zein in alkali, extruding the solution through spinnerets into an acid coagulating ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu A Review of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy docx
... cross-cutting themes used in the planning document should be reintroduced and moved toward the beginning of the plan as a way to reinforce the importance of these elements in creating the foundation ... cross-cutting themes used in the planning document should be reintroduced and moved toward the beginning of the plan as a way to reinforce the importance of these elements in creating the foundation ... the purpose of the ORPP Therefore, the existing plans serve only as guidance in defining information infrastructure, not as the basis for determining the adequacy of the information infrastructure...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Review of essential medicine priorities in ear, nose and throat conditions in children doc
... required The Royal Children’s Hospital Clinical Practice Guidelines combines advice for “rhinosinusitis”, defined as “inflammation of the epithelial lining in the paranasal sinuses” and noting that ... which examined the role of antihistamines in the treatment of nonallergic rhinitis met the inclusion criteria However, because the antihistamine used an ingredient in an antihistamine-decongestant ... whooping cough or another problem.” In addition, the Technical updates of the guidelines on the IMCI from 2005 included a review of the management of acute and chronic ear infections.5 The following...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20