"This is the result of the failure of the Japanese government to resolve a domestic issue as it had promised to do, " said Kunihiko Miyake, a former foreign ministry official who is now a research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies.
Leo Drollas, chief economist at the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London, believes that oil prices will fall eventually, but not until the middle of next year.
Julian Lee, an analyst at the Centre for Global Energy Studies, says that the increase in Russian production, from 6m barrels in the late 1990s, is not sustainable.
But in the short run it will have to burn more oil: at least 300, 000 barrels per day (bpd) more, according to the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London.
What is more, says Leo Drollas of the Centre for Global Energy Studies, a consultancy, they are unlikely to agree to big cuts for fear of further blighting the world economy.
According to NPD, a global information company that studies the restaurant industry, overall sales were flat in 2012.
Many scientific studies indicate that the global climate will soon enter a substantial cooling phase attributable to a weak new solar cycle.
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The global rankings are the result of two studies - the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
Patent-holding plaintiffs won 63% of all infringement cases in Dusseldorf between 2006 and 2009, according to recent research by the Global IP Project, a series of studies initiated by the law firm Finnegan.
"New studies indicate this is a global problem, " says Kimberly Young, a clinical psychologist who wrote the first book on the subject of Internet addiction, "Caught in the Net, " and founded the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
Past studies by the IMF concluded that the global deficit in the 1980s and 1990s was largely due to the underreporting of foreign-investment income by rich countries and the under-recording of freight receipts.
Announcing plans to sell Citgo is just a way for Chavez "to keep the pot stirred, " says Robert Ebel, global energy analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
The two largest providers offshore may each have 10% of the global market, estimates Jason Sharman, an Australian professor who studies the industry.
Dr James Hansen, from Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, acknowledged that even in a period of global warming some seasons will be cooler than the long term average.
"The government should be getting its own house in order first, " agrees Frank Cilluffo, deputy director of the Global Organized Crime Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The goal is for both Prospect Global and Passport to get all required construction and environmental permitting and feasibility studies completed so except for final project finance everything is ready to proceed.
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Annabelle Sreberny, professor of global media and communications at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, acknowledged that social networks and blogs had proved useful to protesters in the Middle East and Asia, but cautioned against overstating Twitter's significance.
Cai Jian, deputy director of the Centre for Korean Studies at Shanghai's Fudan University, disagrees and tells Global Times that a large-scale military conflict is unlikely to break out because North Korea's threats are largely just psychological warfare against the US and South Korea.
The studies reveal that Asian countries continue to dominate the top of the global tables in maths, science and reading.
Only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis, according to a survey reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies.
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The conference which took as its theme, World potential: making education meet the challenge, aimed to provide a global forum to explore the latest developments and issues in international education drawing on case studies from around the world.
Matt Rand, director of Global Shark Conservation for the Pew Environment Group said that this was the latest of a number of studies "confirming the importance of preserving the parts of the ocean where sharks breed and raise their pups".
"There is little doubt that China's growing consumption changes what ability we have to control our own destiny within global energy markets, " said David Pumphrey, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
On a global scale, however, autism rates are largely unknown, because of a lack of research and reliable epidemiological studies and a relative lack of awareness surrounding the condition, Dawson told CNN.
These studies will be included in a regional report to be prepared by the conference participants and presented at the global CONFINTEA VI Conference in Brazil in May 2009.
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