Tag: Cooperation

Free Download Funeka Yazini April, "Forum on China-Africa Cooperation: Industrialisation and Agricultural Modernisation"
English | ISBN: 0798305223 | 2018 | 372 pages | PDF | 8 MB
As the Chinese economy continues to grow, increased commercial engagement with Africa will offer the continent new and rewarding prospects for trade, investment and economic development. The challenge is for Africa to grasp these opportunities and take full advantage of China’s friendship and willingness to co-operate. The Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC) provides a mechanism for all-inclusive diplomatic consultation to advance China Africa co-operation and to effectively manage expanding economic inter-dependence. FOCAC is a political arena for developing Sino-African co-operation and problem solving. FOCAC also provides an important framework for developing a common development agenda. Given new global trends towards antiglobalisation, FOCAC’s importance is expected to increase in the years ahead. This book seeks to strengthen the China-Africa relationship and offer new suggestions for both policy makers and scholars seeking to understand and advance FOCAC for mutual benefit. FOCAC holds the key to Africa’s development and long-term prosperity. The new policy initiatives and proposals outlined in this study make a very valuable contribution to strengthening FOCAC and advancing Africa’s economic development.

Free Download Communication and Cooperation in Agent Systems: A Pragmatic Theory By Afsaneh Haddadi (eds.)
1995 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 3540498761 | PDF | 3 MB
This book is devoted to the design and analysis of techniques enabling intelligent and dynamic cooperation and communication among agents in a distributed environment. A flexible theoretical formalism is developed in detail and it is demonstrated how this approach can be used for the design of agent architectures in practice. The formal part of this work is based on a variant of the BDI logic introduced by Georgeff and Rao. This book, for the first time, outlines this formalism in some depth. The most important practical benefit provided is the concept of cooperation protocols allowing the representation of various methods of cooperation and possible patterns of dialogue.

Free Download Remote Cooperation: CSCW Issues for Mobile and Teleworkers By Alan Dix, Russell Beale (auth.), Alan J. Dix PhD, Russell Beale PhD (eds.)
1996 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 3540760350 | PDF | 9 MB
Computer supported work is increasingly being done out of the traditional office environment, for example whilst travelling or at home and there is a growing need to support the cooperative aspects of such work. Remote Cooperation looks at ways of improving the available communications, through the use of packet radio and compression techniques, in order to reduce the imbalance between office-based and mobile workers. It also assesses how the effectiveness of the existing communications infrastructure can be improved, by providing cooperative applications which fit within its limitations. Broadly divided into five sections – social and economic context, application domains, software technology and infrastructure, communications technology and infrastructure, working and learning from home – this volume contains contributions from both the research community and industry.

Free Download Amy Fried, "Pathways to Polling: Crisis, Cooperation and the Making of Public Opinion Professions"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0415891426 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.5 mb
In midcentury America, the public opinion polling enterprise faced a crisis of legitimacy. Every major polling firm predicted a win for Thomas Dewey over Harry Truman in the 1948 presidential election―and of course they all got it wrong. This failure generated considerable criticisms of polling and pollsters were forced to defend their craft, the quantitative analysis of public sentiment.

Free Download Donna L Doane, "Cooperation, Technology, And Japanese Development: Indigenous Knowledge, The Power Of Networks, And The State"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 0813337372 | EPUB | pages: 244 | 0.6 mb
This book discusses a detailed study of the evolution and recent forms of cooperative technological ties in Japan. It explores the use of cooperative ties for technological advance during the period of technological catch up, specifically within a late development context.

Free Download A Hybrid Method for Cooperation and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Dynamic Protocols for Enhanced Cooperation in Sensor Networks
by zahra Mohammadnejad, mahdi ahmadian
English | December 10, 2024 | ASIN: B0DQ67PW42 | 263 pages | PDF | 65 Mb

Free Download Edward Friedman, Sung Chull Kim, "Regional Cooperation and Its Enemies in Northeast Asia: The Impact of Domestic Forces"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 041539922X | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.5 mb
Examining the prospects for building a regional community in Northeast Asia, this book considers the foreign policies of the individual states as well as the impact of domestic politics on the regionalist agenda. It outlines the emerging Northeast Asian community and the domestic requisites for its evolution and realization, and puts it in context by comparing the emerging community with Southeast Asia.

Free Download Market Evolution: Competition and Cooperation By Arjen Van Witteloostuijn (auth.), Arjen van Witteloostuijn (eds.)
1995 | 358 Pages | ISBN: 9048145236 | PDF | 9 MB
Market Evolution: Competition and Cooperation is a selection of papers presented at the recent meeting of the European Association of Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE). The volume brings together twenty high-quality papers reflecting frontier research in modern industrial organization. The contributions cover a broad spectrum of increasing theoretical, empirical and policy issues, including analyses of the nature of the firm, product differentiation, research and development, strategic alliances, information sharing in the banking sector, exchange rate pass-through in international competition, labor unionization and product rivalry, buyer-supplier bargaining, multimarket competition and related entry, entry and exit processes, multinational enterprises in the Third World, European integration and the restructuring of Eastern Europe. From a theoretical perspective, many chapters apply game theory to the analysis of firm behaviors and market competition. Moreover, a large number of the studies contain a significant empirical part, mainly by employing econometric techniques, to test the hypotheses derived from modern industrial organization theories. Data from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the European Union are presented and analyzed.

Free Download Monica Tennberg, "Arctic Environmental Cooperation: A Study in Governmentality"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138720100, 1138720143 | EPUB | pages: 178 | 0.6 mb
This title was first published in 2000: The book analyses the development of arctic environmental cooperation since the late 1980s until the establishment of the Arctic Council in 1996. The study is based on the discourse analysis of statement, documents and interviews by the different actors in the cooperation. In this book, the problem of the environment is seen as a problem of order: it is a problem of ordering relations among related actors, of ordering priorities of action and of ordering relations between different institutional arrangements locally, regionally and internally. Three discourses were found in the cooperation: discourses of sovereignty, knowledge and development. In the discourse of sovereignty, the development of relations between state and indigenous peoples in terms of international environmental cooperation is central. In the discourse of knowledge, the different forms of knowledge and the role of different producers of knowledge in cooperation has been discussed. The discourse of development focuses on the idea of sustainable development and its applications in defining the future of the Circumpolar North and the activities of the Arctic Council. The arctic cooperation can be understood as a regional effort to make an order of sustainability into practice.

Free Download Déborah Barros Leal Farias, "Aid and Technical Cooperation as a Foreign Policy Tool for Emerging Donors: The Case of Brazil"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367666545, 0815362625 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 1.1 mb
The question of why countries give aid and assistance to other countries has long been a topic of debate- is it altruism, or selfishness? The assumption is sometimes made that donors from developing countries might be more motivated by altruism than ‘traditional’ western donors. This book demonstrates that on the contrary, the provision of development assistance can be used to serve national interests, allowing so-called ’emerging’ donors to gain soft power in the international sphere by improving their image and global influence.