Liberalizing international trade after Doha : multilateral, plurilateral, regional, and unilateral initiatives / / David A. Gantz, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910818629503321
• Autore: Gantz David A.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-139-89153-7; 1-107-42446-1; 1-107-42248-5; 1-107-41938-7; 1-107-41672-8; 1-139-52528-X; 1-107-42057-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 376 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge international trade and economic law ; ; 15
• Disciplina: 382/.9
• Soggetti: Foreign trade regulation; Free trade; International trade; Commercial treaties
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Pursuing trade liberalization in a post-Doha world -- The world trading system under GATT and the WTO, 1947-2012 -- The Doha round failure and the likely demise of the "single undertaking" -- Assisting developing nations with duty-free, quota-free market access, trade facilitation, and related initiatives -- Preserving the environment: fisheries subsidies and trade in environmental goods -- New and expanded plurilateral agreements (part I) -- New and expanded plurilateral agreements (part II): an international services agreement -- Continued proliferation of regional trade agreements -- Widening and deepening (or disregarding) existing RTAs -- Concluding new and pending RTAs (part I) -- Concluding new and pending RTAs (part II): the Trans-Pacific partnership -- Unileteral approaches to trade and ; market liberalization -- Conclusions and the crystal ball.
• Sommario/riassunto: After ten years the Doha Development Round is effectively dead. Although some have suggested that Doha's demise threatens the continued existence of the GATT/WTO system, even with some risks of increasing protectionism, the United States, the European Union, Japan, Brazil, China and India, among others, have too much to lose to make abandoning the WTO a rational option. There are alternatives to a comprehensive package of new or amended multilateral agreements, including existing and future 'plurilateral' trade agreements, new or revised regional trade agreements covering both goods and services, and liberalized national trade laws and regulations in the WTO member nations. This book discusses these alternatives, which although less than ideal, may provide an impetus for continuing trade liberalization both among willing members and in some instances worldwide.

Modelling the Physiological Human : Second 3D Physiological Human Workshop, 3DPH 2009, Zermatt, Switzerland, November 29 -- December 2, 2009. Proceedings / / edited by Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483911303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-280-38328-3; 9786613561206; 3-642-10470-3
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2009.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 229 p.)
• Collana: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, , 3004-9954 ; ; 5903
• Classificazione: DAT 757f; DAT 764f; MED 230f; SS 4800
• Altri autori (Persone): Magnenat-ThalmannNadia <1946->
• Disciplina: 004n/a
• Soggetti: User interfaces (Computer systems); Human-computer interaction; Computer simulation; Computer vision; Multimedia systems; Bioinformatics; Image processing - Digital techniques; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Computer Modelling; Computer Vision; Multimedia Information Systems; Computational and Systems Biology; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Segmentation -- Vessels-Cut: A Graph Based Approach to Patient-Specific Carotid Arteries Modeling -- Interactive Segmentation of Volumetric Medical Images for Collaborative Telemedicine -- Simultaneous Segmentation and Correspondence Establishment for Statistical Shape Models -- The Persistent Morse Complex Segmentation of a 3-Manifold -- Anatomical and Physiological Modeling -- Modelling Rod-Like Flexible Biological Tissues for Medical Training -- Using Musculoskeletal Modeling for Estimating the Most Important Muscular Output – Force -- Computer Assisted Estimation of Anthropometric Parameters from Whole Body Scanner Data -- Simulation Models -- A Physiological Torso Model for Realistic Breathing Simulation -- Evaluating the Impact of Shape on Finite Element Simulations in a Medical Context -- MotionLab: A Matlab Toolbox for Extracting and Processing Experimental Motion Capture Data for Neuromuscular Simulations -- Motion Analysis -- Predicting Missing Markers in Real-Time Optical Motion Capture -- Motion Analysis of the Arm Based on Functional Anatomy -- WAPA: A Wearable Framework for Aerobatic Pilot Aid -- Discriminative Human Full-Body Pose Estimation from Wearable Inertial Sensor Data -- Medical Visualization and Interaction -- A 3D Human Brain Atlas -- Context Preserving Focal Probes for Exploration of Volumetric Medical Datasets -- Use of High Dynamic Range Images for Improved Medical Simulations -- Medical Ontology -- My Corporis Fabrica: A Unified Ontological, Geometrical and Mechanical View of Human Anatomy -- Formal Representation of Tissue Geometric Features by DOGMA Ontology.
• Sommario/riassunto: Thisbook presentsrecentadvancesinthedomainofthe3Dphysiologicalhuman that werepresentedlastDecember at the Workshopon 3D PhysiologicalHuman 2009 that was held in Zermatt, Switzerland. This workshop was funded by the "Third Cycle in Computer Science of Western Switzerland" named CUSO, the European project Focus K3D (ICT-2007-214993), the European Marie Curie project 3D Anatomical Human (MRTN-CT-2006-035763) and the European Network of Excellence InterMedia (NoE-IST-2006-038419). 3D physiological human research is a very active ?eld supported by several scienti'c projects. Many of them are funded by the European Union, such as the 3D Anatomical Human project and those present in the seventh framework programme "Virtual Physiological Human"(FP7-ICT-2007-2). One of the main objectivesof the researchon 3D physiologicalhuman is to create patient-speci'c computer models for personalized healthcare.These models are used to simulate and hence better understand the ; human physiology and pathology.There is also a synergy in this research in the way medical information is distributed: to have any model available anytime, anywhere on any mobile equipment. A collection of scienti'c articles was proposed to highlight the necessity to exchange and disseminate novel ideas and techniques from a wide range of d- ciplines (computer graphics, biomechanics, knowledge representation, human- machine interface, mobile computing, etc.) associated with medical imaging, medical simulation, computer-assisted surgery and 3D semantics. The emphasis wason technicalnoveltyalongwith currentandfuture applications for modeling and simulating the anatomical structures and functions of the human body.