the globalization of production

... also the result of immigration, or perhaps better, the result of a dramatic shift in the origins of immigrants who entered the country during the last half-century and especially after the 1965 ... after the election of Jimmy Carter, and recipes for cheese and 267 CHAPTER 24 THE GLOBALIZATION OF PLENTY The world of food requires unobtrusive erudition. It is well known that curiosity is the ... and col- leagues on the virtues of the Mediterranean diet. These investigators added more than two decades of their own research to earlier explo- rations of the Mediterranean diet, which, when...

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... identified Revlon as one of the symbols of the globalization of the beauty (and other) markets. 81 Yet during the 1970s Revlon diversified domestically into health care and other unrelated products ... diffusion of Western, or American, beauty ideals at the expense of local discourses, the the meaning of this diffusion is complex. In the cities of Asia, Latin America and elsewhere, the spread of ... cosmetics company whose sales reached £360 million by the end of the decade The combination of the toiletry and cosmetics interests of the two firms had the apparent potential to create a significant...

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... Moreover,inworking out the implications of actions foreseen in the pursuit of the objectives of its vision forthecomingquartercentury,theCGIARitselffindsthathundredsofmillions ofpeople—perhapsnofewerthantoday—willremainseriouslyundernourished orworse.IftheCGIARVisionistobetakenseriouslyasaguidetoactionwithin and ... heritage mostnationsshare,inoneformoranother,istheparableofsevenyearsofplenty followed by seven years of lean. In spite of the lessons of history,cyclical swings in food output persist, and they result from, and further distort, ... many other publications. In no small measure, the impact of the system, spearheaded by the new varieties of rice, wheat, maize, and other food crops and the production packages devised for their...

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... y of the o ther pitchers, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are in consistent with beh avioral explanations for how one w orke r affects the per form ance of other ... ot the case, then v 1 > 0 cannot be optimal since the principal would be better off paying zero t o playe r 1. Depending o n the value of B as well as the values of the other parameters in the ... are in parentheses. The coefficients in each column of each of the two panels come from the same regression with the dependent variable defined by the panel. Each regression includes the annual...

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... classified in terms of: (1) The height of the bulk of the tongue in the mouth (2) The front/back position of the tongue in the mouth (3) The degree of lip-rounding (4) The length of vowels (Roach, ... which the rationale for the research, the research problem, the purposes, the research questions, the scope of the study, the research method, the significance of the study, as well as the design ... English. The voice of the students was recorded and then played again for the students themselves to find out the mistakes they had made. After the students realized the mistakes they had made, the...

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... of eighty million people is becoming a “vital” part of the global economy. The deeper Vietnam takes part in the global economy, the greater the impact of globalization on Vietnam becomes. Globalization ... greatly changed. The collapse of the Soviet Union was followed by the world fully embracing, the form of government employed by the three economic superpowers: the US, EU, and Japan. The rapid development ... is commonly referred to as the relocation of parts of the production process from one country to another. Most of the attention used to focus on fragmentation in the goods chain, but more recently...

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... negotiated price. The trade of inter-bank bond market relies on the securities booking system of the CGSDTC and the bond trading system of the inter-bank lending centre. The trading system of the national ... M2/GDP ratio is the consequence of financial deepening and a reflection of the unique feature of the structure of financial assets. 11 development of this market and construction of the market mechanism ... only 17.2 percent of the total by the end of 1999. z  Globalization: the Role of Institution Building in the Financial Sector _ The Case Study of China ...

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... rapid advances in the identification of biosynthetic genes, the elucidation of specific biosynthetic enzymes, and the identification of end-products. The complete genetic makeup of an organism has ... system for the production of these compounds in laboratories, its applica- tion in industry is still limited due to frequently low yields of the metabolites of interest or the feasibility of the bioprocess. ... to perform. One of the major applications of genome sequencing of plants is functional genomics. In simple words, an understanding of the function of genes and other parts of the genome is known...

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... throughout the world bears little resem- blance to teosinte, the original ancestor of corn. The newer techniques involv- ing genetic engineering, on the other hand, allow for the transfer of a few genes ... than its conventional counterpart; therefore, the Þnal assess- ment of safety is always comparative. The scientiÞc basis of the evaluation process is the concept of “substantial equivalence.” Regulatory ... signiÞcant changes in the genetic makeup of plants and animals due to the random recombination and sorting of thousands of genes. As a result of intervention by people, the hybrid seed corn currently...

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... section, there are a number of theories that attempt to explain the flow of FDI. The Eclectic Paradigm theory is the most useful for analyzing the implication of FDI in economic development. The ... is the relationship between foreign direct investment and the export performance of Thailand and the transfer of technology impact thereof. The last section discusses the current situation of ... in 1999, up by 117% from the year before. This is attributed to the policy of the Singapore government to become the financial hub of the ASEAN region. The Government of Singapore Investment...

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... PH5CH8 cells. First, we confirmed the effect of NS3-4A on the activation of the IFN-b gene promoter by the Cardif exogenously expressed in PH5CH8 cells. The results of the lucif- erase reporter assay ... that the activation of IRF-3 by M-pIC treatment is mediated by the TLR3 ⁄ TRIF signaling pathway. We obtained further evidence by examining the status of the phos- phorylation and dimerization of ... sup- press the activation (1000-fold induction) of the IFN-b gene promoter by TRIF (Fig. 7A). This result was also supported by the results of the dimerization analysis of IRF-3 (Fig. 7B). Furthermore,...

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... production. The degrees of inhibition of NO production with Ro31-2880 and GF109203X were approximately 70 and 30%, respectively. Effects of TS on the amount of PKCa We further examined the effects of ... [20–23], the mechanism of the TS effect still remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated in detail the effect of TS on NO production in the VSMC system. The investigation would further give ... compared the effects of a-T and its derivatives TA and TN with that of TS on LPS/IFN-induced NO production. The additions of a-T, TA and TN did not induce NO production in the absence of LPS/IFN,...

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