Popular Abstract in English The conservation of forests is receiving increasing international attention. News reports of rampant deforestation for oil palm plantations in Indonesia or soy and cattle ranching in Brazil are the visible images that many of us know. Combating the loss of forests and mitigating climate change through the prevention of further carbon emissions to the atmosphere are promMarket-based instruments have become a widely used approach to motivate landowners to conserve forests instead of clearing them. However, such market-based instruments are increasingly criticized for their simplistic view on complex environmental, social and economic issues; for their ethical stance; and for creating exchange value for essential ecosystems services, which potentially perpetuates a

In this paper we address the problem of Internet networks optimization using a mixed Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) routing. Since MPLS can be combined with any routing protocol there appeared an idea of coupling IP streams routed via OSPF protocol and MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs) in the same network. One expected advantage behind such a combined rout

It is far from evident that small owner-managed companies can use the capacity of a board of directors. A well known construct of board task performance is expressed in the activities of control, strategy making, and service (C-SM-S construct). The aim is to explore the construct, which has been derived from studies on large and medium-sized companies, in a new setting. The analysis of three cas

The RUNES project defines a complex road tunnel scenario involving multiple mobile robots navigating in sensor network environment. In this paper, a TrueTime simulation model of the tunnel scenario is developed. The TrueTime simulator allows concurrent simulation of the physical robots and their environment, the software in the nodes, the radio communication, the network routing, and the ultra-sou

In this paper we revisit the contentious issue of whether corporate governance arrangements influence corporate cash holdings. We use the exogenous cash windfalls in the oil industry during the 2000s to test the power of three governance dimensions (managerial entrenchment, board independence and ownership) in explaining differences in cash management policies. Between 2000 and 2008 the oil price

The purpose of the Gramte program is to meet the needs of university students who feel that they are not mastering the grammatical terminology needed for studying linguistics or foreign languages. In all learning contexts it is important to have the adequate background knowledge. This is even more crucial when it concerns the basic concepts and terminology which will be used by the teachers during