The study is available online at no cost and with the help of the Internet, it has provided a basic reference for congressional and federal hearings and has helped create curriculum for graduate programs, Carpenter said.
He railed against what he called a Turkish-Qatari agenda to create sectarian strife again and to divide Iraq a reference to Sunni countries many Shiites accuse of backing members of Iraq's Sunni community who have been holding months of protests against the Shiite-led government.
While Hong Kong was more of a business center and Macau was becoming a resort destination, there were enough similarities to cross reference the data and his team was able to create an analytic left-brain quantitative prioritization model using a right brain intuitive approach to the data.
National elections last month produced no clear winner, but President Giorgio Napolitano said the 61-year-old Bersani was best positioned to create a government given "the most difficult circumstances" a reference that while the political leader has a comfortable majority in the lower house, the Senate is split.