... 40 SãoToméandPríncipeandtheIssueofPersistentOrganicPollutants 567 Arlindo Carvalho Chapter 41 Activities, Challenges, and Accomplishments ofthe Republic of Slovenia in the ... workers in these new industries worked with their own medical and health professionals to document these cases But knowledge ofthe practice oforganic chemistry and knowledge ofthe effects these ... protochemists emerge: the alchemist, the iatrochemist, andthe metallurgist (Brock, 1992) The beauty of these professions is that they span the globe, demonstrating the multiple ways in which the chemical...
... On the other hand, looking at the importance ofand evaluation ofthe present status of factors affecting technology and know-how transfer, there seems to be room for both investors and on the ... illustrates the behavior of Japanese and Korean companies in China, andthe environments and difficulties they face The survey data also cover the transfer of technology and managerial resources from the ... opportunities to explore the benefits of increasing returns to scale The size ofthe three countries combined amounts to 19 % ofthe world GDP, 24 % ofthe world’s population, and 12 % of world exports...
... Administration Research and Theory, Publius, and other journals Heungsuk Choi is a professor in the Department of Public Administration andthe director ofthe Office of International Affairs ... on MPA Education andofthe Public Management Education Committee ofthe Ministry of Education He is the vice chair ofthe Political Science Association of Hubei Province andofthe Public Administration ... a professor in the faculty of law of Kyoto University and then vice president ofthe Local Autonomy College, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Kengo Akizuki is a professor of public...
... consider the reach of globalisation andthe response of those on the receiving end of it In principle we agree with the need for clarification enforced by the overuse ofthe concept of globalisation ... source of identity building Second, states have been compliant with and supportive ofthe global reach of domestic capital for large parts ofthe modern era, and they still are, as they command the ... km Map 2.4 The beginning ofthe K-League (198390) reflected the countrys economic and demographic structure: three teams in the capital and three others in the large ports ofthe southeast In...
... representing the views ofthe VEPR The views expressed in this report are those ofthe author(s) and not necessarily represent those ofthe VEPR VEPR’s research associate, PhD Candidate, Department of ... valves and sprockets Some of these firms and households have been engaged in machinery parts since the central planning period (before 1986) and other and entered after the late 1980s as the demand ... political and institutional conditions for sustained and rapid improvements in living standards? This question goes to the heart of many current debates on the role of markets andthe State during the...
... idea ofthe state of things andthe frame of mind in China is not astonishing especially in view ofthe censorship andthe distraction of attention ofthe last few years But that Japan and China ... possession ofthe port of Tsing-tao and usurpation of Shantung, it was enough to stop off the train in Tsinan-fu to see the wall crumble For the Japanese wireless andthe barracks ofthe army of occupation ... there was a rush of officials andofthe wealthy to the concessions of Tientsin and to the hotels ofthe legation quarter This sketch is not meant as history, but simply as an indication of the...
... ensure that the guidelines are followed and training of staff with respect to clinical management and care of patients These and other previous studies have been limited to the standards and services ... degree of urbanisation or the position ofthe informant (leader/non-leader) Page of Table 2: The relationship between quality indicators at emergency departments (EDs) andthe presence of chain of ... response rates The sample size in the CHS study was relatively small However, in light ofthe selection procedure andthe fact that the CHS in the municipalities actually covered onethird ofthe entire...
... degree of robustness Furthermore, the results strongly support the IIT hypotheses and all the coefficients are statistically significant at 1% level The relationships indicated by the 43 sign ofthe ... limited variety of production in order to reap the advantages of economies of scale Grubel and Lloyd (1975) made another contribution to the theory of intra-industry trade as they divided intra-industry ... addition, on the basis ofthe traditional comparative advantage theory, Flam and Helpman (1987) emphasizes the role of technology, they claimed that technological differences are the main source of different...
... study of Techcombank The objective ofthe research is to access the understanding of Techcombank’s managers and accountants about the influence of corporate culture on the initiations of managerial ... Another finding ofthe survey is the opinions of asked accountants and managers about the practice of four initiative methods ofthe application of managerial accounting in Techcombank The consequences ... increasing trust of its staff, customers andthe society Because of this reason, the research focuses on understanding the value ofthe corporate culture, in particular, understanding the relationship...
... Management officials of Department of Labor - Invalids and Social Affairs of Vinhphuc; Deputy Director Department of Education and Training of Vinhphuc, Professional Training officials of Department of ... Enterprises andthe principals of Colleges through telephone in order to schedule the visits to their offices Here, the researcher would inform the object ofthe study and request for their partnership ... Respondents, for their patience and cooperation in answering the questionnaire and for other data given; MY FAMILY and FRIENDS, for the love and support in one way or the other; and TO ALL who...
... However, such static profiles miss much ofthe dynamic position ofthe elderly andthe flows of income and reciprocity in which they participate Further analysis of how the panel of elderly people ... levels of consumption either side ofthe poverty line This approach avoids reliance on a single line and thus the some ofthe dangers of estimating incidence of poverty at the margins ofthe line ... to assess the relative profiles of children andthe elderly in relation to poverty as the presence of either is linked to higher risk of poverty andthe presence of both is both common and additionally...
... gap in our understanding ofthe effects of this programme The IOM report states that the "benefits and unintended consequences [of PEPFAR] will not be fully appreciated if the initiative is evaluated ... Hoos D: The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief - Is the Emergency Over? The New England Journal of Medicine 2008, 359:553-555 13 Office ofthe United States Global AIDS Coordinator: The U.S ... comparison of PEPFAR focus countries with the nonfocus countries is found in Table Eleven ofthe 14 health indicators have negative median values among the PEPFAR focus country group, and eight of the...
... below); (2) they select one ofthe prime numbers, each of them on the basis of their position in the list of addresses {C, D, E, F } specified in the previously mentioned IM; (3) they send the components ... ofthe mask, and therefore it calculates the set of prime numbers, andthe coefficients ci needed to reconstruct the original message Finally, when the sink receives at least N − f components of ... the number of sent messages Nm andthe mean number of nodes that receive the above messages in the case of CRT and SP schemes, NHcrt and NHsp , respectively In fact, the mean number of packets...
... Co-culture of monocytes and fibroblasts increased both bands of MMP-2 and resulted in more ofthe 66 kDa form (Fig 1b) Co-culture of fibroblasts with monocytes also induced the release of MMP-9 ... In contrast, PGE2 reduced the amount of total MMP-1 and decreased the conversion ofthe 52 kDa form to the lower molecular weight forms in the presence of elastase Neither indomethacin nor PGE2 ... cleavage ofthe latent forms can result in generation of active proteases [24,25] The MMPs differ both in their substrate specificity and in their mechanisms of activation Since some members of the...
... both the genotype andthe phenotype On the other hand, if the phenotype is robustly maintained in the presence of genetic mutations, then a number of cryptic genetic changes may be possible and their ... addition of new components/processes that are integrated with the rest ofthe system and add to the complexity ofthe organizational form All complex life forms have evolved through a succession of ... descriptions of robustness and evolvability can be found in Appendix Robustness and evolvability are vital to the persistence of life and their relationship is vital to our understanding of it This...
... together with the proportion of independent directors we control for other governance variables: the size ofthe board of directors, the doubling up of executive and Chair responsibilities, the ... request the calling of board meetings or the inclusion of new business on the agenda; to coordinate and give voice to the concerns of external directors; and to lead the board's evaluation ofthe ... 30% ofthe company shares Otherwise, the Block variable takes the value of DUALITY = dummy variable that takes the value of when the chairman and CEO responsibilities lie on the same person Otherwise,...
... study is structured The context of Singapore (the role of NGOs, the place of religion andthe internal and external forces shaping Christianity) andthe background of CreationCarers are discussed ... (sic) relation to the land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it’ Leopold premises his argument on the idea that humans are members, not owners, ofthe land community and there is interconnectedness ... monitor the NGO’s activities The ambiguity ofthe donors’ role has led Power, Maury and Maury (2002) to label donors as the ‘alien-hand’, alluding to Adam Smith’s theory ofthe ‘invisible hand’...
... ofthe variation ofthe variables during the previous pass To avoid the collapse ofthe region size, the region collapse parameter = 10−6 was used As was shown by Luus (2003), the choice ofthe ... For the first five passes the region size was restored to 0.80 of its value at the beginning ofthe previous pass (η = 0.80), and for the rest ofthe passes the region size was determined by the ... getting the problem into the form so that optimization can be used Let x = denote the bottom ofthe column, L be the length ofthe column, and W (x) be the cross-sectional distance, or width, of the...
... contributions AB and KC participated in the conception ofthe work, compiled the information, reviewed and wrote the manuscript PW participated in the conception ofthe work, development ofthe test ... function, and memory, particularly immediate and delayed recall The severity of neurocognitive impairment from brain lesions generally is related to the size ofthe tumor rather than the number of metastases ... The objective is to identify and evaluate the above biomarkers and to investigate the ability of these biomarkers to predict neuropsychological decline after WBRT and to predict progression of...