The last few decades have seen a spectacular integration of the global economy through trade. The rising integration of world markets has brought with it a disintegration of the production process, however, as manufacturing or services activities done abroad are combined with those performed

when they are integrated out. In order for a quantum effect to cure a classical inconsistency, it can not be suppressed by the usual string coupling g s . It is shown how the required g s dependence arises as a result of the peculiar couplings of Ramond-Ramond gauge fields to the dilaton. 1

Conceptual integration--"blending"-is a general cognitive operation on a par with analogy, recursion, mental modeling, conceptual categorization, and framing. It serves a variety of cognitive purposes. It is dynamic, supple, and active in the moment of thinking. It yields products

and are shaped by shifts in the field of security and surveillance more broadly. Three dynamics in particular warrant consideration: the move toward a precautionary logic among security planners, a ‘‘semiotic shift’ ’ wherein security iconography is integrally bound up with the pro-duction of contemporary urban

The development of relational database management systems served to focus the data management community for decades, with spectacular results. In recent years, however, the rapidly-expanding demands of “data everywhere ” have led to a field comprised of interesting and productive efforts

We report VIMOS integral field spectroscopy of the N159F nebula surrounding LMC X-1. Our observations reveal a rich, extended system of emission line filaments lining the boundary of a large conical cavity identified in Spitzer mid-IR imaging. We find that X-ray photoionization cannot be solely

The giraffe and its patches, the leopard and its spots, the tiger and its stripes are spectacular examples of the integration of a pattern and a body shape. We present an approach that integrates a biologicallyplausible pattern generation model, which can effectively deliver a variety of patterns

Abstract: The increased pressure of terrorist action have led to the invention of many new and spectacular techniques for the detection of concealed weapon and explosives. These include trace detection systems for the detection of vapors or particles of explosive left behind during carrying

be attributed to the IMF. I am grateful to Robert Solow for asking me to write the paper, to Mary Amiti, Alex Lehmann, Prakash Loungani, and two referees for their helpful comments, and to Adrian de la Garza and Young Kim for research assistance. 2 The spectacular growth and diverse forms of FDI

The driving force behind the spectacular advancement of the integrated circuit technology in the past thirty years has been the exponential scaling of the feature size, i.e., the minimum dimension of a transistor. It has been following the Moore's Law [1] at the rate of a factor of 0