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... historical basis, but it would be mistaken to assume that the association is immutable. It is clear, however, that governments must display care and maintain a clear focus if they are to ensure that ... sectors that lose. The latter is not to say, however, that capital mobility causes otherwise avoidable losses from trade liberalization. When capital has been attracted into a country by distortionary ... far larger shocks than a trade reform. A further question under this heading is whether trade liberalization restricts a government's ability to manage spending and taxation in a way that...

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... constitute Caribbean filmmaking and the recent film festival efforts in Barbados, indicate that there is a Caribbean cinema. However, this cinema is in a state of infancy. What then is needed to bring ... while there is no formal definition or singular style of Caribbean cinema, there is a cultural sensibility that one can look at and begin to say that this is something typically Caribbean. New ... Caribbean cinema. Cham adds that while there may not be any one style of filmmaking that is a Caribbean style, there are however, a cluster of styles and aesthetics that can be explored and...

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... treated as matters of political opinion, As regards the established media, we have a long way to go. The Australian and US press give more space to ideologi- cal attacks on climate science than ... pro- moted research commissioned by the (now-dissolved) Tobac- co Institute of Australia. The teaching of creationism is much less of a hot button issue in Australia than in America, partly because belief ... appealed to me and I think it has decent explanatory power over this phenom- enon. There is a particular kind of irrationalism Adorno iden- tified, which is characteristic of authoritarian politics...

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... Data are drawn from Statistical Return. Loans and Bad Loans. Data are drawn from Statistical Return. Average Loan Life. This information is the average length (in years) of customer relationship ... risky and, thus, interest rates are higher . 3. Data and summary statistics This paper uses aggregated and individual Italian bank and firm data drawn from several sources. Aggregated ... of our sample. Average Loan Size. This variable is the ratio between total loans and the number of customers, i.e., the average loan size granted by each bank to customers. It is calculated by...

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... Kalia H.Sadhak Gautam Mehra Harsh Bisht Jesal Lakdawala Malvika Singh Nehal D Sampat Nidhi Jain Sneha Bhagat Trisha Chatterji Vivek Prasad About PwC PricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd is a leading ... like to take this opportunity to thank all the team members for their contribution to the creation and nalisation of this report. Team Members: Anuradha Sanghavi Arun Swaminathan Avinash Kalia H.Sadhak Gautam ... space. Generally, it is more expensive for a distributor to reach out to a retail investor than to a corporate investor. While an average retail investor folio has about 35,000 INR of assets, an average...

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... President: Daniela Gressani Country Director: Theodore Ahlers Sector Director: Mustapha K. Nabli Sector Manager: Miria Pigato Task Team Leader: Paloma Anós Casero IS THERE A NEW VISION FOR MAGHREB ... (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia): SEE= Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia & Montenegro: CEE = Central and European countries (Poland, Hungary, Czech and ... Recent analysis on Maghreb countries’ revealed comparative advantage and export specialization also reveals that Tunisia’s exports of beverages have a strong comparative advantage in the Maghreb...

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... fundamental theoretical reasoning, usually within physics and mathematics. i h ˙ ψ = H ψ Quantum Mechanics S = k log W Statistical Mechanics I − Distribution at Interface Chemistry Chemistry is the science of atomic ... Calculations + Molecular Dynamics Computational Chemistry Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses principles of computer science to assist in solving chemical problems. Quantum ... Mechanics Molelcular Orbital Theory Density Functional Theory Ab Initio Calculations Statistical Mechanics Molecular Dynamics Monte Carlo Transition State Theory I − /I − 2 Association • Barrierless...

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... 4 (page number not for citation purposes) Statistical analysis Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD) or as number and percentage where appropriated. Statistical analysis was performed ... luca.libre@humanitas.it; Stefano Genovese - stefano.genovese@humanitas.it; Ilaria Quaglia - ilaria.quaglia@humanitas.it; Lidia Luciana Rota - lidia.rota@humanitas.it * Corresponding author Abstract Background: ... Luca Librè 1 , Stefano Genovese 4 , Ilaria Quaglia 1 and Lidia Luciana Rota 1 Address: 1 Thrombosis Center, Istituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS, Rozzano (MI), Italy, 2 Unit of Laboratory and...

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... hypothesis testing. Results from quantitative analyses, assuming adequate sampling and appropriate statistical analyses are objective and comparable. Data from this type of research are normally ... Slim Fast, SportsFlex, Vitabalance Aloe Vera, Alpha-lipoic Acid, Amino Acids, Arnica, Black strap molasses, Calcium, Calendula, Carbohydrate & recovery drinks, C-Glutamine, Chinese Tea, Chromium, ... analyzing quantitative or qualitative data. Although qualitative approaches have the advantage of producing deep understanding of ath- letes' motivations, data from these studies are not suitable for...

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... imped- ance was <4 kohms. All patients came from North Greece (Latitude 40–40.1° North). Statistical analysis It included Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) with age as a covariate and Pearson's ... Fountoulakis KN, Karamouzis M, Iacovides A, Nimatoudis J, Diako- giannis J, Kaprinis G, Demitriadou A, Bech P: Morning and Evening Plasma Melatonin and Dexamethasone Suppression Test in Non-Seasonal ... Research. Geneva. 1993:83-87. 2. APA: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th edition. Washington DC, American Psychiatric Press; 1994:317-345. 3. Fountoulakis KN, Iacovides A, ...

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... disease mechanisms. In principal, there are two approaches to genetic mapping: linkage and association analysis (reviewed in [2]). Linkage analysis is based on inheritance of chromosomal fragments within ... Nomura T, Tagami T, Yamazaki S, Sakihama T, Matsutani T, Negishi I, Nakatsuru S, Sakaguchi S: Altered thymic T-cell selection due to a mutation of the ZAP- 70 gene causes autoimmune arthritis in ... H, Sakaguchi N, Kobayashi K, Brown GD, Tagami T, Sakihama T, Hirota K, Tanaka S, Nomura T, Miki I, Gordon S, Akira S, Nakamura T, Sakaguchi S: A role for fungal ββ -glucans and their receptor...

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... Linos A, Kaklamani VG, Kaklamani E, Koumantaki Y, Giziaki E, Papazoglou S, Mantzoros CS: Dietary factors in relation to rheumatoid arthritis: a role for olive oil and cooked vegeta- bles? Am J ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/8/1/204 Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic, destructive, debilitating arthritis. Its etiology is unknown; it is presumed that environmental factors ... rheumatoid factor (RF). Autoreactive B cells also have a central role in the development of RA, producing autoantibodies that might be involved in tissue damage in RA [14]. Genetic factors are...

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... no-RT Table 4 The impact of clinical and pathologic factors on the overall survival Factors Assessed Univariate Analysis Multivariate Analysis Hazard Ratio 95% CI a p b Hazard Ratio 95% CI p c Age ≤50 ... infra or supraclavicular fossa or in the internal mammary chain was considered as a regional recur- rence. Any recurrence outside these areas was defined as DM. Statistical Analysis LRR and DM rates ... Cheng et al reported that in addition to axillary nodal status, estrogen receptor status, lymphovascular space invasion and age at diagnosis were all found to be significant to predict LRR and the...

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