Beyond the Transatlantic Divide: The Multiple Authorities of Standards in the Global Political Economy of Services

This paper explores the plurality of institutional environments in which standards for the service sector are expected to support the rise of a global knowledge-based economy. Despite the careful wording of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a whole range of international bodies still have the capacity to define technical specifications affecting how services are expected to be traded on worldwide basis. The analysis relies on global political economy approaches to extend to the area of service standards the assumption that the process of globalization is not opposing states and markets, but a joint expression of both of them including new patterns and agents of structural change through formal and informal power and regulatory practices. It analyses on a cross-institutional basis patterns of authority in the institutional setting of service standards in the context of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), the European Union, and the United States. In contrast to conventional views opposing the American system to the ISO/European framework, the paper questions the robustness of this opposition by showing that institutional developments of service standards are likely to face trade-offs and compromises across those systems and between two opposing models of standardisation.

Iowa Department of Transportation Fiscal Year 2002 Report of Savings by Using Videoconferencing through Iowa Communications Network to the Iowa General Assembly, 2002

ICN Videoconferencing by the Iowa Department of Transportation

Iowa Department of Transportation Fiscal Year 2003 Report of Savings by Using Videoconferencing Through Iowa Communications Network, Iowa Department of Transportation, December 2003

Iowa DOT savings through use of Iowa Communications Network (ICN)videoconferencing.

Iowa Communications Network, June 30, 2002

State Agency Audit Report

Iowa Communications Network, June 30, 2003

State Agency Audit Report

Iowa Department of Transportation Fiscal Year 2004 Report of Savings by Using Videoconferencing Through Iowa Communications Network, Iowa Department of Transportation, December 2004

Iowa DOT savings through use of Iowa Communcations Network (ICN) videoconferencing

2004 Annual Report of the Iowa Communications Network, 2004

This is the Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2004 (July 1, 2003-June 30, 2004) for the Iowa Communications Network.

Iowa Communications Network, Independent Auditor's Reports, Basic Financial Statements and Supplementary Information, Schedule of Findings, June 30, 2004

State Agency Audit Report

Some applications of FISST to wireless communications

This paper aims at illustrating some applications of Finite Random Set (FRS) theory to the design and analysis of wireless communication receivers, and at pointing out similarities and differences between this scenario and that pertaining to multi-target tracking, where the use of FRS has been traditionally advocated. Two case studies are considered, l.e., multiuser detection in a dynamic environment, and multicarrier (OFDM) transmission on a frequency-selective channel. Detector designand performance evaluation are discussed, along with the advantages of importing FRS-based estimation techniques to the context of wireless communications.

2005 Annual Report of the Iowa Communications Network

This is the Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2005 (July 1, 2004-June 30, 2005) for the Iowa Communications Network.

Iowa Communications Network Performance Report, FY 2004

Agency Performance Report

Iowa Communications Network Performance Report, FY 2005

Agency Performance Report

Iowa Department of Transportation Report of Savings through use of Iowa Communications Network (ICN), FY 2005

Iowa DOT savings through use of Iowa Communications Network (ICN) videoconferencing

Iowa Communications Network, Independent Auditor's Reports, Basic Financial Statements and Supplementary Information, Schedule of Findings, June 30, 2005

State Audit Reports