In Productivity Revisited, the World Bank turns Food Service its ongoing productivity research program to the issue of the apparent failure of productivity in developing countries to converge to the higher productivity in advanced economies.The World Bank asserts, but provides little evidence, that converge is not taking place The analysis is groun
At present, the issues of overcoming the negative structural shift in Russian economy, accelerating economic growth, reducing technological and social- and-economic gap between Russia and the developed countries are strategically important.Modern structure of Russian economy which had been developed as a part of market model does not generate the i
Europe is making significant efforts to create a common space where not only common political institutions and values, but also common future is to be shaped.And it is young people who is selected to be the main policy object for building common European identity.To this end in recent years, the European Union has worked out the institutional mecha
This paper provides an overview of a novel electric energy storage technology.The Thermally Integrated Pumped Thermal Electricity Storage (TI-PTES) stores electric energy as thermal exergy.Compared to standard PTES, TI-PTES takes advantage of both electric and low-temperature heat inputs.Therefore, TI-PTES is a hybrid technology between storage and
The IMS satellite EXOS-A (1978-014A) launched into a quasipolar eccentric orbit on February 4, 1978, includes in its payload a Volumising Foam plasma wave detector, which has one broadband channel and eleven bandpass channels covering the frequency range 400 Hz to 3 MHz Each channel is connected to an electric dipole antenna Food Service and two Fa