660 research outputs found
Triggers, Remedies, and Tariff Cuts: Assessing the Impact of a Special Safeguard Mechanism for Developing Countries
No full textThe WTO negotiations broke down on July 30th, 2008 because members could not bridge their differences over the operation of a Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM). This article evaluates the latest SSM proposal using the world wheat market as our case study. Whether low-income WTO members should be allowed to breach their pre-Doha bound tariffs is a key element of our analysis. The SSM leads to sizeable additional duties but is not very trade distorting, even when pre-Doha bound rates are breached. Moreover, the extent to which low-income countries should be allowed to exceed pre-Doha bound rates depends heavily on the product under consideration, the ambition of the tariff cutting exercise, and the gap between members’ bound and applied tariffs.agriculture, Doha Development Agenda, July Package, Special Safeguard Mechanism, World Trade Organization, International Relations/Trade,
Soft systems methodology analysis for scoping in environmental impact statement in Israel
No full textThe current working paper will focus on Soft System Methodology (SSM) analysis of the process of issuing guidelines for Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) to developers in the Israeli context. The paper’s goal is to make the reader familiar with the terminology and the concepts of SSM, while serving as a case study for practising SSM. The paper starts with a “crash” introduction to SSM, followed by a general description of the process in the centre of the discussion - the Israeli EIS process. After these two introductory sections, the paper turns to the main issue - a SSM analysis of the problem situation - the creation of guidelines for EIS in the Israeli context. This specific case study have been selected due to the author’s familiarity with it (is served as the main research field for his MA thesis). Also the author has the shorthand transcripts from a series workshops that were held as part of an evaluation study that the environmental planning department in the ministry of environment (EPD-MoE) have commissioned on the Israeli EIS system. Unless stated otherwise, the sources for SSM are “Information Systems Development: Methodologies, Techniques and Tools” (Avison and Fitzgerald, 1995), “Practical Soft Systems Analysis” (Patching, 1990), on-line lecture notes for the UCL “System Analysis and Design” course (Sasse and Fultun, 1997) and “Soft Systems Methodology: An Alternative Approach to Knowledge Elicitation in Complex and Poorly Defined Systems” (Finegan, 1994)
An Approach to Integrating Soft Systems Methodology and Object Oriented Software Development
No full textThe key aim of the research discussed in this paper has been to investigate ways of integrating
techniques from SSM (Soft Systems Methodology) into the requirements elicitation stage of an
agile system development method based on the UML (Unified Modelling Language). We argue
that used alone UML models can encourage early design decisions before opportunities for
improvement have been agreed and that SSM lacks the detailed information required by
programmers. This leads to the conclusion that there could be some advantage in using the
techniques together.
In developing an integrated method we have been influenced by the recent trend towards agile
systems development. This represents a move away from seeing software development methods
as codified practices focusing on specific artefacts within a prescribed lifecycle. Instead emphasis
is placed on the provision of a framework of development activities, products and workflows
together with guidance for applying these to a particular application area.
The design of the research is as follows:
1. An Information Systems Development (ISD) project is being carried out using SSM and
UML techniques to make recommendations about the design of our School’s intranet.
This is being written up as a case study.
2. The case study is being used to reflect upon and develop a hybrid method (or
development framework) and a supporting CASE (Computer Assisted Software
Engineering) tool.
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The discussion of how the proposed framework emerged from our practical experience is
punctuated with UML and other types of model that relate to the design of the supporting CASE
tool
Role of aldose reductase in pathogenesis of diabetic neuropathy by making use of Thy1-YFP transgenic mice with aldose reductase-mutation
No full textpublished_or_final_versionabstractAnatomyDoctoralDoctor of Philosoph
Polyol pathway contributes to hyperglycemia-induced cardiac dysfunction
No full textpublished_or_final_versionPhysiologyMasterMaster of Philosoph
Developmental and physiological consequences of sodium/myo-inositolco-transporter 1 deficiency
No full textpublished_or_final_versionabstractPhysiologyDoctoralDoctor of Philosoph
Dismorfia muscular em usuários de esteróides anabólico-androgênicos.
No full textTrabalho de Conclusão de Curso - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Curso de Medicina. Departamento de Saúde Pública
Role of testosterone and its interaction with adrenoceptor in protection against ischaemic insult and contractile function of theheart
No full textpublished_or_final_versionPhysiologyDoctoralDoctor of Philosoph
Molecular study of the regulation of osmotic response element-binding protein
No full textpublished_or_final_versionPhysiologyDoctoralDoctor of Philosoph
The role of human sodium dicarboxylate cotransporter in oxidative stress
No full textpublished_or_final_versionabstracttocMolecular BiologyMasterMaster of Philosoph
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