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City Profile Nouakchott

Created ex nihilo prior to independence (1958), Nouakchott is both a city of uncontrolled urban growth (especially given the combined influence of the end of nomadic life and the great draughts) and the seat of all trappings of power, designed to symbolise ...

2008

Interneurons of the neocortical inhibitory system

Henry Markram, Gilad Silberberg, Yi Wang

Mammals adapt to a rapidly changing world because of the sophisticated cognitive functions that are supported by the neocortex. The neocortex, which forms almost 80% of the human brain, seems to have arisen from repeated duplication of a stereotypical micr ...

2004

Are Budget Deficits Used Strategically?

Luisa Lambertini

This paper tests empirically the strategic explanation of budget deficits suggested by Tabellini and Alesina [13] and Persson and Svensson [12]. Tabellini and Alesina suggest that governments with different political orientation provide different public go ...

2004

From e-government to e-governance? Towards a model of e-governance

Matthias Finger

This paper is conceptual in nature: in it, we seek to identify the current trends of State transformation, combine them with the changes in the new information and communication technologies, and extrapolate this combination into the near future. More prec ...

2003

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics of ferroelectric domain evolution

Roland Logé

A ferroelectric crystal tends to form domains. Internal and external fields can cause domain walls to move, resulting in macroscopic phenomena such as aging, creep and fatigue. Domain evolution is a nonequilibrium thermodynamic process. The domain pattern, ...

1996

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