Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute in Washington, said a European border control agency was urgently needed, but he doubted it would ever have the manpower, equipment, or institutional capacity to secure external EU frontiers.
But the army is still quite strong enough to prevent any chunk of Pakistan from splitting off.The other prophecies are more sobering given the current security crisis on the Afghan frontier, and a history of institutional Islamism within the army itself.
To address this question, the efficiency of institutional delivery was analyzed using a stochastic frontier approach.
This, in turn, reinforces our belief that the spatial stochastic frontier models add something important to specifying the inefficiency distribution of institutional delivery, beyond what we would expect from a heterogeneity corrected frontier model.
The Swiss National Science Foundation; SystemsX.ch; the NCCR program Frontiers in Genetics; Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant from the Seventh Research Framework Programme (to B.D .; Institutional support from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
However, with the exception of the U.S. Transboundary Assessment Act Program (TAAP) (focusing on the Hueco Bolson, Mesilla Bolson, San Pedro and Santa Cruz aquifers), there is no comparable research, institutional development, or assessment of transboundary groundwater issues on the frontier.
At the core of Ohio's commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship is Ohio Third Frontier, a State-led, public, private, philanthropic and institutional effort that will provide over $1.7 billion to R&D, technology commercialization, and entrepreneurial support.
Institutional strategies and policies for… … Promoting Open Access and Open Science as new frontiers of scientific communication.
Starting in the early 1970s Israel focused on frontier novel technologies, but by and large neglected the creation of institutional arrangements necessary for their dissemination throughout the domestic economy.
This joint institutional investment reflected the view that such disorders were part of "the new frontier" (encompassing the transition from acute/infectious to chronic/genetic disease, and from cellular to molecular understandings of disease processes) in medicine, and illustrates the status accorded to metabolic research.
Mr President, this debate has confirmed that, right now, Latin America is the frontier of the world: what I mean by that is that there is no institutional, economic, social or artistic culture which ought not here and now be taking notice of what was until just a few years ago considered to be the 'missing' continent.
