infections and dementia the view from a developing nation

... level output and trade data are from the World Bank’s Trade and Production database (Nicita and Olarreaga, 2007) We use the import demand elasticities estimated for each country at the 6-digit ... see also Gawande and Bandyopadhyay 2000).9 The import demand elasticities are missing for four countries – Ecuador, Nepal, Pakistan and Taiwan For them we use the industry averages of the elasticity ... Indonesia, India, Korea, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Malawi, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Taiwan, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Africa, Bangladesh, Cameroon, Costa...

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2014, 14:19

... h.apsimon@imperial.ac.uk Jenny Arnell jenny.arnell@ivl.se Katja Jusen Kristin Mohammad Christian Asmussen Asuka Aunan Aurangojeb Azar Richard Ballaman Andreas Lars Mark Jean-Guy Ellen Barkman Barregård Barrett ... Bartaire Baum kaasm@mst.dk asuka@cneas.tohoku.ac.jp kristin.aunan@cicero.uio.no aurangot@yahoo.com christian.azar@chalmers.se richard.ballaman@bafu.admi n.ch andreas.barkman@eea.europa eu lars.barregard@amm.su.se ... ApSimon may.ajero@cai-asia.org cecilia.akselsson@nateko.lu.s e nadine.allemand@citepa.org amann@iiasa.ac.at kjell.andersson@naturvardsve rket.se ulf.andersson@gu.se camilla.andersson@smhi.se h.apsimon@imperial.ac.uk...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... propan-1-ol and the same acetate buffer containing 60% propan-1-ol to give the pass-through (OS-P) and retained (OS-R) fractions, respectively The OSR fraction contained LPS from the SDS/PAGE analysis ... Nitrobenzyl alcohol was used as a matrix The sample was ionized with KeV Xe atoms, and the ions were accelerated through 10 KeV Argon was used as the collision gas RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Analysis ... phosphate The latter component may be a byproduct of the hydrolysis reaction or a natural contaminant These results indicate that the LPS from B vulgatus mainly contains lipid A carrying four fatty...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 23:20

... demographics are summarized in Table The mean age was 47.9, and almost all (95%) were female Nearly half (41%) of the subjects were employed either full-time or part-time for pay and nearly another ... (emotional and physical), body pain, general health, vitality, social functioning, and mental health compared with the general population [7,30] Perhaps due to the large pain burden and detrimental ... and to the development of this manuscript MM, DG, and RG served as clinical reviewers and contributors to the analysis and discussion sections All authors have read and approved the final manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... participated in drafting the manuscript, data collection, and statistical analyses JZ participated in the design, completed analyses, and helped draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the ... National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the Mayo Foundation He is a consultant for Dainippon Sumittomo Pharma, Merck, and Sepracor He has CME-supported activity for Astra-Zeneca, ... demographic composition and in work, social, and functional limitations among the populations with unipolar depression and bipolar disorder: results from a nationally representative sample Health and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... reflexes maintain and adapt postural control: gravity Because earth's gravitational field is a constant, the postural reflexes develop and react to this constant From the moment an infant learns to ... various sensory pathways, they identified afferent connections with the gracilis and cuneatus nuclei, the vestibular nuclei, and the thalamus Yamada et al [96] identified a sympathetic innervation ... subcortical areas known as the pretectum, the superior colliculus, and the lateral geniculate body Information relayed by this pathway ascends from the optic nerve ultimately to the lateral geniculate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... known as a “landmark narrative” in the financial history of the 1980s Lincoln became a symbol of the savings and loan crisis, despite the fact that it was not the largest savings and loan to have ... INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE SAVINGS AND LOAN CRISIS WHAT LESSONS MIGHT CRISIS COUNTRIES IN ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA HAVE LEARNED FROM THE SAVINGS AND LOAN MESS? by Edward J Kane 113 THE LESSONS ... taxpayers and close capital markets to firms A remarkable consensus emerges from the data and analysis in this volume Former regulators, scholars, and legal and financial practitioners converge in their...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 12:47

... primary, and the basic meaning all seem to refer to the same thing - it is a spatial meaning that relates the trajector and the landmark to each other The secondary literal meaning can be explained ... concerning a certain part of a day, a season in a year, a particular month in a year, a particular year in which a significant event or a habitual activity takes place Like and bằng, vào has nothing ... knowledge, imagination, memories and all the activities connected with the brain; the heart and soul are seen as containers for emotions; the body is regarded as a location of a person’s character, and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:22

... senses of a preposition are highly arbitrary and are not related to one another As a matter of fact, both dictionaries and grammars provide long lists of unrelated senses for each preposition and its ... phenomena can be investigated As fas as spatial prepositions are concerned, cross-language research in cognitive semantics has shown that although spatial cognition exists in any language, there are ... within the framework of cognitive semantics and in this way immensely understand what native English speakers conceptualize spatial relations of the physical world objects and how they map from these...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:47

... Entorf and Kramarz 1998 Entorf, Gollac and Kramarz 1999 Asplund 1997 United States United States United States United States Australia Australia Canada Canada France France France Finland Dinardo and ... depending on the nature of work and organization of the workplace They also show that technological change and organizational change are interdependent The results also suggest that conceptual and problem-solving ... Pischke 1997 Haisken-DeNew and Schmidt 1999 Oosterbeek 1997 Arabsheibani, Emami and Marin 1996 Arabsheibani and Marin 2000 Bell 1996 Green 1998 Borghans and Ter Weel 200 0a Sakellariou and Patrinos...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2016, 08:14

... that brands are well managed Here is his plaint: “Brands not have to die They can be murdered And the marketing Draculas are draining the very lifeblood away from brands Brands are being bargained, ... stay relevant and few are sustainable Advantages are temporary Increasingly, a company wins not with a single advantage but by layering one advantage on top of another over time The Japanese have ... such as B-47s or power plants or selling to large national and global accounts Today’s companies increasingly assign national and global account managers to manage their largest customers Account...

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Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 00:10

... that brands are well managed Here is his plaint: “Brands not have to die They can be murdered And the marketing Draculas are draining the very lifeblood away from brands Brands are being bargained, ... such as B-47s or power plants or selling to large national and global accounts Today’s companies increasingly assign national and global account managers to manage their largest customers Account ... New York City, the United States, Madonna, and you—yes, you! A brand is any label that carries meaning and associations A great brand does more: It lends coloration and resonance to a product or...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... Suppose you are planning to buy a PDA (personal digital assistant) and you have seen all the ads for Palm, HP, and Sony You even go to examine them at Circuit City and listen to the salesperson ... companies believe they can make a greater return • From operating in the marketplace to operating in cyberspace Smart companies are developing a presence online as well as off-line They are using ... primarily is the putting together of the right combination of quality, service, and price (QSP) for the target market Louis J De Rose, head of De Rose and Associates, Inc., says: “Value is the satisfaction...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... stay relevant and few are sustainable Advantages are temporary Increasingly, a company wins not with a single advantage but by layering one advantage on top of another over time The Japanese have ... group managers), not brand managers They will find out the set of company products and services that their customers would care about and then work with the product and brand managers to deliver them ... social issues and will patronize a company that cares.19 Greg Carpenter and Kent Nakamoto have challenged a core assumption of marketers that buyers initially know what they want.20 Instead they...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... customer as a financial asset that needs to be managed and maximized like any other asset Tom Peters sees customers as an “appreciating asset.” They are the company’s most important asset, and yet their ... create delighted customers They create fans Take a lesson from Harley Davidson and the customer who said that he would rather give up smoking and other vices than be without a Harley Tom Monaghan, ... year but in your share of the customer’s mind and heart Companies that make steady gains in mind share and heart share will inevitably make gains in market share and profitability Marketing thinking...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... fairyland castles, pirate 62 Marketing Insights from A to Z ships, and the like The aim of the experiential marketer is to add drama and entertainment to what otherwise might pass as stale fare ... on assets (ROA), free cash flow, economic value added Financial Marketing 63 (EVA), market capitalization, and cost of capital must be as familiar to them as sales, market share, and gross margins ... give a forecast in the form of a number or a date, but not both The truth is that the future is already here; it has already happened The task is to find and study what the small percentage of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... whether the planned results are being achieved Approach • Sales analysis • Market-share analysis • Sales-to-expense ratios • Financial analysis • Market-based scorecard analysis Implementation and ... guidelines and regulations, regional line managers, and headquarters product directors Country managers are not all equal Usually the country managers in the larger markets have more autonomy and influence ... company’s plant, equipment, inventory, and working capital hardly reflects a true value of a company For example, where is Coca-Cola’s brand value on the company’s balance sheet? Coca-Cola’s brand value...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... criteria as: • Is the situational analysis fairly complete? • Are the goals reasonable and reachable in the light of the situational analysis? • Does the strategy seem adequate to deliver the stated ... reviewed, compared, and evaluated by the planning or strategy office One large multinational corporation has a planning office that scores the various plans before they are approved The office applies ... everything they now have and more anagement Management is the task of making trade-offs and juggling contradictions Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter observed: The ultimate corporate balancing act:...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... made the money.” By analogy, it was Xerox in its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) that invented Ethernet, the graphical user interface, and the laser printer and yet it was Netscape, Apple, and ... changes and maintain marketing practices that have lost their edge The marketing practices of many companies today are obsolete edia A company must use media If your company doesn’t use media, ... economists talk about the car market or the housing market But marketers view the sellers as the “industry” and the buyers as the “market.” Thus marketers will talk about markets of “35 to 50-year-old...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20