Chinas Landesverteidigung am Beginn der 2020er Jahre: Weißbuch zu Chinas Militärstrategie

Thema: Chinas Landesverteidigung am Beginn der 2020er Jahre - im Spiegel des Weißbuchs 2019 zur Militärstrategie Chinas. • mit einem Kommentar. • Chinas Weißbuch 2019, gekürzte und bearb. Übersetzung a. d. Engl.; • Chinas Weißbuch 2019, Textoriginal (engl.); • Chinas Weißbuch 2015, gekürzte und bearb. Übersetzung a. d. Engl.:Inhalt: • Vorwort des Herausgebers • Kommentar von Wilfried Schreiber: 'Chinas Weißbuch 2019 zur Militärstrategie und die KP Chinas.' • Übersetzung von Bernd Biedermann: Weißbuch 2019 zu Chinas Militärstrategie. 'Chinas Landesverteidigung im neuen Zeitalter.' • Anhang 1: Übersetzung von Bernd Biedermann: 'Weißbuch 2015 zu Chinas Militärstrategie.' • Anhang 2: Textoriginal (engl.): White paper 2019 - 'China`s National Defense in the New Era (2019)

Regionalism as an Engine of Multilateralism: A Case for a Single East Asian FTA

As East Asia becomes increasingly integrated through market-driven trade and FDI activities, free trade agreements (FTAs) are proliferating. Consolidation of multiple and overlapping FTAs into a single East Asian FTA can help mitigate the harmful noodle bowl effects of different or competing tariffs, standards, and rules. A region-wide FTA will also encourage participation of low-income countries and reduce trade-related business costs, particularly for small and medium enterprises. A computable general equilibrium (CGE) model examines the economic impact of various types of FTAs in East Asia (among ASEAN+1's, ASEAN+3, and ASEAN+6) finding that consolidation at the ASEAN+6 level would yield the largest gains to East Asia among plausible regional trade arrangements.Free Trade Agreement; ASEAN; multilateralism

A Celebration of West Point Authors, July - December 2019

Highlighting the 456 collected works of scholarship published and presented between July - December 2019.https://digitalcommons.usmalibrary.org/books/1022/thumbnail.jp

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Now in these days, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a major role in healthcare. It has many applications in diagnosis, robotic surgeries, and research, powered by the growing availability of healthcare facts and brisk improvement of analytical techniques. AI is launched in such a way that it has similar knowledge as a human but is more efficient. A robot has the same expertise as a surgeon; even if it takes a longer time for surgery, its sutures, precision, and uniformity are far better than the surgeon, leading to fewer chances of failure. To make all these things possible, AI needs some sets of algorithms. In Artificial Intelligence, there are two key categories: machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NPL), both of which are necessary to achieve practically any aim in healthcare. The goal of this study is to keep track of current advancements in science, understand technological availability, recognize the enormous power of AI in healthcare, and encourage scientists to use AI in their related fields of research. Discoveries and advancements will continue to push the AI frontier and expand the scope of its applications, with rapid developments expected in the future

Nuclear weapons: the state of play

"The present report ... describes in detail the progress - or lack of it - on the commitments and recommendations of the 2010 NPT Review Conference, the 2010 and 2012 NSS, and the rather more ambitious ICNND, as at December 2012. Its publication in early 2013 is timed to assist the deliberation of the NPT PrepCom process, and it will be followed by a further updated volume in 2015, prior to that year's NPT Review Conference. While there are some other "report card" publications in existence, or in preparation, aimed at tracking particular sets of recommendations or the performance of particular groups of states, we believe that the present volume is the most comprehensive of its kind." - page xCopyright Information: "This publication may be reproduced in full or in part if accompanied with the following citation:Ramesh Thakur and Gareth Evans, eds., Nuclear Weapons:The State of Play (Canberra: Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disar

The U.S. Proposal for an Intellectual Property Chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

This article takes advantage of the breach in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiation’s secrecy to contribute to a new and growing collection of published scholarship on leaked proposals for international intellectual property agreements as they are being negotiated. We begin with the general provisions of the agreement, which define its relationship to the multilateral system. We then progress to analysis of some of the most important copyright, patent and data protection, and enforcement sections of the proposal, before providing some concluding observations. Our ultimate conclusion is that the U.S. proposal, if adopted, would upset the current international framework balancing the interests of rights holders and the public. It would heighten standards of protection for rights holders well beyond that which the best available evidence or inclusive democratic processes support. It contains insufficient balancing provisions for users, consumers, and the public interest

Hygiene and Sanitation Software: An Overview of Approaches

A review of the state of the art in methods and techniques for sanitation and hygiene behaviour change, and other non-hardware aspects of sanitation programming. Includes introductory text and detailed entries on more than 20 approaches and techniques, with key references, summary information on effectiveness and implementation and an assessment of when different approaches should be used