... 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 267CHAPTER24 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 ofthe Mediterranean diet. These investigators added more than two decades of their own research to earlier explo-rations ofthe Mediterranean diet, which, when...
... identified Revlon as one ofthe symbols ofthe globalization ofthe 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 ofthe decade The combination ofthe toiletry and cosmetics interests ofthe two firms had the apparent potential to create a significant...
... Moreover,inworking out the implications of actions foreseen in the pursuit ofthe objectives of its visionforthecomingquartercentury,theCGIARitselffindsthathundredsofmillionsofpeople—perhapsnofewerthantoday—willremainseriouslyundernourishedorworse.IftheCGIARVisionistobetakenseriouslyasaguidetoactionwithinand ... heritagemostnationsshare,inoneformoranother,istheparableofsevenyearsofplentyfollowed by seven years of lean. In spite ofthe lessons of history,cyclical swingsin food output persist, and they result from, and further distort, ... many other publications. In no smallmeasure, the impact ofthe system, spearheaded by the new varieties of rice,wheat, maize, and other food crops and theproduction packages devised fortheir...
... y ofthe o ther pitchers, but is unaffected by the batting output ofthe 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, thenv1> 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 ofthe other parameters in the ... are in parentheses. The coefficients in each column of each ofthe two panels come from the same regression with the dependent variable defined by the panel. Each regression includes the annual...
... classified in terms of: (1) The height ofthe bulk ofthe tongue in the mouth(2) The front/back position ofthe 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 ofthe study, the research method, the significance ofthe study, as well as the design ... English. The voice ofthe 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...
... of eighty million people is becoming a “vital” part ofthe global economy. The deeper Vietnam takes part in the global economy, the greater the impact ofglobalization on Vietnam becomes. Globalization ... greatly changed. The collapse ofthe 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 theproduction process from one country to another. Most ofthe attention used to focus on fragmentation in the goods chain, but more recently...
... negotiated price. The trade of inter-bank bond market relies on the securities booking system of the CGSDTC and the bond trading system ofthe inter-bank lending centre. The tradingsystem ofthe national ... M2/GDP ratio is the consequence of financial deepening and a reflection ofthe unique feature of the structure of financial assets.11development of this market and construction ofthe market mechanism ... only 17.2 percent ofthe total by the end of 1999.z Globalization: the Role of Institution Building in the Financial Sector _ The Case Study of China ...
... rapid advances in the identification of biosynthetic genes, the elucidation of specific biosynthetic enzymes, and the identification of end-products. The completegenetic makeup of an organism has ... system for theproductionof these compounds in laboratories, its applica-tion in industry is still limited due to frequently low yields ofthe metabolites of interest or the feasibility ofthe bioprocess. ... to perform.One ofthe major applications of genome sequencing of plants is functionalgenomics. In simple words, an understanding ofthe function of genes and otherparts ofthe genome is known...
... 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 fewgenes ... than its conventional counterpart; therefore, the Þnal assess-ment of safety is always comparative. The scientiÞc basis ofthe evaluation process is the concept of “substantialequivalence.” Regulatory ... signiÞcant changes in the genetic makeup of plants and animals due to the random recombinationand sorting of thousands of genes. As a result of intervention by people, the hybrid seed corn currently...
... 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 ofthe Singapore government to become the financial hub ofthe ASEAN region. The Government of Singapore Investment...
... PH5CH8 cells. First, weconfirmed the effect of NS3-4A on the activation of the IFN-b gene promoter by the Cardif exogenouslyexpressed in PH5CH8 cells. The results ofthe lucif-erase reporter assay ... that the activation of IRF-3 by M-pIC treatment is mediatedby the TLR3 ⁄ TRIF signaling pathway. We obtainedfurther evidence by examining the status ofthe phos-phorylation and dimerization of ... sup-press the activation (1000-fold induction) ofthe IFN-bgene promoter by TRIF (Fig. 7A). This result was alsosupported by the results ofthe dimerization analysis of IRF-3 (Fig. 7B). Furthermore,...
... production. The degrees of inhibition of NO production with Ro31-2880 andGF109203X were approximately 70 and 30%, respectively.Effects of TS on the amount of PKCaWe further examined the effects of ... [20–23], the mechanism ofthe TS effectstill 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 andTN 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,...
... the character that they inherit from the place where the wine is produced. Consumers who visit producers are particularly sensitive to the beauty ofthe landscape, to the architecture ofthe ... 1855, the wines of Médoc were classified. At that time, 60 châteaux were selected and classified as First to Fifth-Growth on the basis of their quality (actually, on the basis of their prices). The ... 1980 and 1992. Estimation results Since there is little if any theory concerning the impact of endowments and ofthe various steps oftheproduction process, we were led to select variables16...