andrew rosser the political economy of the resource curse a literature survey

The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State

The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State

Ngày tải lên : 13/03/2014, 21:59
... conglomerates such as AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare, and Pharmacia (now absorbed by Pfizer). The big pharma company AstraZeneca alone accounts for the bulk of private bio-based research and development. ... (Australian Research Council 2002). Health and medical research is also an area of traditional strength and in the 1990s biotechnology and pharmaceuticals emerged as fields of relative specialisation ... research sector and the big pharma companies are of very recent vintage and remain weak and fragile by comparison to Sweden, the UK and the USA. According to the pharma industry its aggregate...
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Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc

Economic Reform and the Political Economy of the German Welfare State doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 20:20
... and the abolition of dual financing for hospitals were killed off by the opposition in the Bundesrat. All the government was able to ob tain was a reform of hospital finance. Instead of a standard ... Affairs of the Land of Bavaria encour- aged the local health care funds to do exactly this. The year 2003 became the year of health care reform. Scandals involving financial conspiracies between ... Bundesrat was accompa nied by a large-scale campaign involving all the major players in the health sector: doctors’ associations, the pharmaceutical industry, and the health insurance funds, 63 not...
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paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment

paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment

Ngày tải lên : 01/06/2014, 10:55
... approach, in a sense, tries to capture the societal debates about environment and political economy rather than just the academic debates over the theories of the political economy of the environment. Naturally, ... science and international relations. They share many of the broad assumptions and arguments of market liberals—especially the belief in the value of economic growth, globalization, trade, foreign ... divides the world into arti- ficial territories, aggravates the effects of too many humans, because it violates the principles of ecology and creates what academic Garrett Hardin famously called a “tragedy...
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the mit press paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment apr 2005

the mit press paths to a green world the political economy of the global environment apr 2005

Ngày tải lên : 11/06/2014, 12:44
... Goad, Joshua Gordon, Jeca Glor-Bell, and Sanushka Mudaliar also helped immeasurably with the research. We are grateful to the Australian Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ... the theories of the political economy of the environment. Naturally, given the breadth of our labels, many disagreements exist among those in each category. We have tried to show the range of ... divides the world into arti- ficial territories, aggravates the effects of too many humans, because it violates the principles of ecology and creates what academic Garrett Hardin famously called a “tragedy...
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Tài liệu Preparing the Western Cape for the Knowledge Economy of the 21st Century ppt

Tài liệu Preparing the Western Cape for the Knowledge Economy of the 21st Century ppt

Ngày tải lên : 27/01/2014, 12:20
... provincial departments (and not just the Department of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Tourism), as well as the work of local government, national departments, parastatals and the many other stakeholders ... providers, Iafrica.com and M-Web, are based in the province, and more than 50 call centres are located in the larger Cape Town area. One of the most successful integrators of traditional media and Internet ... competitors, unless the knowledge transfer takes place under circumstances that hold clear and immediate advantages for them. Such advantages have classically taken the form of the relatively low cost...
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Knowledge map of the virtual economy - CONVERTING THE VIRTUAL ECONOMY INTO DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL docx

Knowledge map of the virtual economy - CONVERTING THE VIRTUAL ECONOMY INTO DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL docx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 10:20
... introduced the main areas of the virtual economy and described the dierent business models that are used in them. In each of the areas it was found that at least some part of the economic activity ... to obtain virtual goods and make full use of the features of a game or a community. A key capability that all work aggregators share is the ability to not only contact a large number of people, ... detail the main areas of the virtual economy, their economic impact, business models and value chains. e two major areas of the existing virtual economy are identied as 1) third- party gaming...
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Report of the Sub-Committee of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India to Study Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector doc

Report of the Sub-Committee of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India to Study Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector doc

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 14:20
... number of borrowers and outstanding loans (ii) analysis of overdues (iii) the average effective rate of interest, the average cost of funds and the average margin earned (iv) analysis of the ... clients, and 63.6% of the loan portfolio of Microfinance provided by all MFIs. We also examined the financials for the same year of two smaller MFIs. The results of that analysis are as under:- ... private equity has entered the sector. On the one hand, there was a huge unsatisfied demand for microfinance credit and on the other, there was a limitation on the capacity of not-for-profit...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Role of the N- and C-terminal regions of the PufX protein in the structural organization of the photosynthetic core complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: Role of the N- and C-terminal regions of the PufX protein in the structural organization of the photosynthetic core complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides pptx

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 09:20
... N- and C-termini [33] and a transmembrane a helix in the central region (Fig. 1 ). On this basis, and in view of the finding that the C-terminal part of the LH1 a polypeptide plays an important ... via the plasmid pRKX (in trans) into the host Rb. s phaeroides DQ x/g, deprived of the chromosomal copy of the puf operon. Table 1. Bacterial strains and plasmids. The plasmid host strain in all the ... between that of the monomeric and the dimeric form ( see above) in mutant PufX54*. As in these last two mutants a short lag was observed (see Table 2), apparently the presence of a stable dimer...
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The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 - A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War pdf

The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 - A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War pdf

Ngày tải lên : 31/03/2014, 18:20
... ii.] With the rise of this system, and the attendant increased importation of slaves, came the end of the helpful contact of servants with their masters. Slavery was thereby changed from a patriarchal ... did not reach all parts of the colony.[2] The Quakers of North Carolina, however, had local schools and actually taught slaves. Some of these could read and write as early as 1731. Thereafter, household ... advocates of the education of the Negroes endeavored to give them such practical training as their peculiar needs demanded. In the agricultural sections the first duty of the teacher of the blacks was...
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the university of north carolina press opium war 1840-1842 barbarians in the celestial empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates mar 1998

the university of north carolina press opium war 1840-1842 barbarians in the celestial empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates mar 1998

Ngày tải lên : 11/06/2014, 14:18
... and habit required at the start of a war a declaration to that effect, a declaration accompanied by the withdrawal of ambassadors. But neither Peking nor London had ambassadors positioned and ... more about Americans in China in the early nineteenth century than any man alive, made available to me xerox copies of a portion of the Carrington papers and read a large part of the manuscript ... was at its height, the admirers still imagined (as they had always and with perfect accuracy imagined) that the object of their admiration was as powerful as it was advanced. Yet for all that...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module" pptx

báo cáo hóa học: " Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... analyses. AB drafted the manuscript and participated in the statistical analyses. JWV and GM revised the manuscript critically. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Berkes et al. Health ... part in the adaptation process for the PedsQL™ 3.0 Cardiac Module only; the Hungar- ian Generic Core Scale was already available through the MAPI Research Institute. Statistical analysis Feasibility ... gender. It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in 89.5% of the sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% of the sample. Distribution of all participants...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Evaluating the reliability, validity and minimally important difference of the Taiwanese version of the diabetes quality of life (DQOL) measurement" potx

báo cáo hóa học: " Evaluating the reliability, validity and minimally important difference of the Taiwanese version of the diabetes quality of life (DQOL) measurement" potx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... several clinical variables: 1) laboratory indicators: fasting plasma glucose, 2-hour postprandial plasma glucose, and HbA1c, and 2) complications of diabetes: retinopathy, neuropa- Health and Quality of ... Baltimore, MD, USA, 4 Tainan Hospital, Department of Health, Tainan, Taiwan and 5 Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Email: ... distribution-based approach, we estimated a stand- ard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for relia- bility of the DQOL and standard deviation of patients under the investigation. SEM was estimated by a...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Measurement properties of the Brazilian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL™) cancer module scale" pdf

báo cáo hóa học: " Measurement properties of the Brazilian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL™) cancer module scale" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 22:20
... SMP, IAP, JWV and PJA conceptualized the rationale and design of the study. MLRJ contributed to the statistical analysis and interpretation of the data. ACS and SMP drafted the manuscript. All authors ... USA Email: Ana C Scarpelli - anascap@yahoo.com.br; Saul M Paiva* - saul.paiva@mcgill.ca; Isabela A Pordeus - isabela@netuno.lcc.ufmg.br; Maria L Ramos-Jorge - mlrjorge@hotmail.com; James W Varni ... was no report by the patients or guardians of any lack of comprehension regarding the questions. The lack of validation studies on assessment scales of the quality of life among children and adolescents...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of the Korean version of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales in school children and adolescents using the rasch model" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of the Korean version of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales in school children and adolescents using the rasch model" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 22:20
... score interpretations from these data [15]. Additionally, the way each rating scale is constructed has great influence on the quality of data obtained from the scale [16], and a rating scale may not be used ... in the way it was intended by the developer of the scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality of the measures and utility of the rating scale in facilitating interpretable meas- ures ... citation purposes) aration are low, while item reliability and separation are high. As we mentioned earlier, these results indicate that the sample has a narrow spread and the sample size is large...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Hypoxia silences the neural activities in the early phase of the phrenic neurogram of eupnea in the piglet" docx

báo cáo hóa học: " Hypoxia silences the neural activities in the early phase of the phrenic neurogram of eupnea in the piglet" docx

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2014, 10:20
... groups. In addition, the patterns during early and late phases of phrenic neuro- gram were almost the same as those of gasping. As matu- ration proceeds, the similarity between the late phase of phrenic ... piglets. After the first week of postnatal age, the duration of the phrenic neurogram burst significantly increases and the patterns during the early phase of the phrenic neurogram are different ... neurogram is not a periodic signal and that its characteristics change rapidly during maturation. The dominant burst type activ- ities disappeared during the early phase of the phrenic neurogram although...
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