the new equation of globalization

... result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or any of the authors The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and are not necessarily the ... because of the slowness of EU law making, they rather had to accept the need to proceed step by step as soon as the political climate permitted advancement in one field or another, mostly within the ... property (IP) rights, often working in synergy Certainly the patent system is suitable for some of the innovative activity in Europe, though not all of it The European Patent Of ce has the authority...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... our hypotheses, we identify the expected proportions of each of the 10 digits (zero to nine) in each place of the earnings numbers under the null hypothesis The true distribution of the digits ... earnings management include the selection of the timing of new accounting principles, the selection of accounting standards, the control of transaction times, and the adjustment of discretionary accruals ... the case, the effect of the improvement of corporate governance cannot be ignored The Cramer's V of the first digit from years 1990 to 2002 was 0.0189, which is larger than the Cramer's V of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 19:37

... Gallon of Ethanol Net feedstock cost per gallon of ethanol is equal to the value of the feedstock minus the value of byproducts divided by the number of gallons of ethanol produced per unit of feedstock ... sugar beets depends on the prices of these two crops, the costs of conversion, and the price of gasoline A moderation in the price of gasoline and a return in ethanol prices to their historic relationship ... imports, and others helped increase the production of ethanol during the 1980s Government regulations, such the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and the Energy Conservation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... Gallon of Ethanol Net feedstock cost per gallon of ethanol is equal to the value of the feedstock minus the value of byproducts divided by the number of gallons of ethanol produced per unit of feedstock ... sugar beets depends on the prices of these two crops, the costs of conversion, and the price of gasoline A moderation in the price of gasoline and a return in ethanol prices to their historic relationship ... imports, and others helped increase the production of ethanol during the 1980s Government regulations, such the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, the Energy Policy Act of 1992, and the Energy Conservation...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... background and SES These measures are (a) whether the mother or father of the respondent was dead at the time of the collection of the retrospective data, and if so their age of death which could ... ‘explanation’ of the excess disease in the US arises from the inclusion in the model of the indicators of prevalence of the specific childhood illnesses themselves as opposed to the interactions of these ... mother and father alive, average height and high childhood SES Examining the effects of new variables included in these models, all forms of adult disease are higher if either the mother or father...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:20

... diffuse in the gas phase from the atmosphere surrounding the leaves, through the stomata, become dissolved in water coating the cell walls, and then enter the cells of the leaf (1) Uptake of O3 by ... Network (NCLAN), which was the first large-scale and systematic study of the impact of O3 on crops in the world The primary objectives of the NCLAN study were to (a) define the O3 exposure/ crop-yield ... Currently, the AOT40 parameter exceeds 3000 ppbh in most of the European Union with the exception of northern Scandinavia and the UK (32a) This implies that most of Europe could be losing at least 5% of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 19:20

... because of their use of the benchmarking techniques they employed The aim of the American firms was to learn enough from their competitors to beat them at their own game To this, they identified their ... status of the students, the nature of the assessments that students must take, the nature of the qualifications they might earn and so on, in great detail In this way, while the causal nature of ... find out whether students have mastered a particular curriculum, but also whether they can apply the knowledge they have gained and the skills they have acquired to the new challenges of an increasingly...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:22

... to offer Negroes the same educational and religious privileges they provided for persons of their own race, were the Quakers Believing in the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God, they ... parts of the South reached the third stage in the development of the education of the Negroes At first they were taught the common branches to enable them to understand the principles of Christianity; ... to the minds of their Negroes The necessity of choosing either of these alternatives was obviated by the enactment of provincial statutes and formal declarations by the Bishop of London to the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... concentration of the PA profession in New England and upper Midwest states over the 27 years of study period The greatest expansion of PA workforce in 2000 to 2005 likely resulted from the third period of ... supply of the PA workforce Recruiting younger PA students might also help to balance the ratio of males to females, since the 'feminization' of the PA profession appears to be the consequences of ... assessed the degree of variation in the PA workforce distribution across the states Furthermore, we examined the ratio of PAs to population by state The analysis was supplemented with data on the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... improved the physical and psychological health of these patients to levels comparable with or greater than the physical and psychological health of the general population in the United States List of ... may not be due to the nature of disease impact on physical aspects of health, but rather to the method used to derive PCS scores PCS scores are based on the positive coefficients of physical health-related ... considered the minimum important difference in the general US population [7] There is extensive evidence demonstrating the reliability and validity of the SF-36 [4] in general populations The SF-36...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... The sleep quantity scale is the mean number of hours of sleep per night reported over the past week Higher scores represent more of the concept being measured The HADS is designed to detect the ... severity level worsened, the impact of FM on these areas of cognitive function significantly increased (p < 0.001; Table 6) Impact of FM on Productivity Overall, half (50%) of the subjects reported ... one of the few studies in the US to comprehensively assess the core FM symptom dimensions identified by OMERACT and to explore the disease burden of FM by disease severity levels Although the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... status (professional or volunteer); the date, cause, and mechanism of death; and the city and state of the fire department Duties at the Time of Death On the basis of the summary report of each ... that of the Cambridge Fire Department and the other representing a lower level of emergency activity These estimates were derived with the use of data for the population served, the numbers of ... firefighters, the following information was available: the number of firefighters, the total number of alarms and emergency responses, the distribution of emergency calls and dispatches by hour of the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... common in the Northeast 11 12 THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH I THE PROBLEM OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF WEALTH THE problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, that the ties of brotherhood may ... surplus means to the adornment of a park, the gathering together of a collection of pictures for the public, or the building of a memorial arch These are all true laborers in the vineyard The only point ... during their lives Under the first and second modes most of the wealth of the world that has reached the few has hitherto been applied Let us in turn consider each of these modes The first is the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... terms of warm weather in the United States The availability of hydroelectric power to displace fossil-fueled power was limited by dry conditions in much of the Nation, with the exception of the ... varies according to the quality of the fuels, defined by their carbon content and the associated heating value (Btu).15 The Btu content of fuels is a determinant of the number of kilowatthours that ... amount of nuclear power more than offset the loss of some hydroelectric power in 1999 Fuel Quality and Price when considering the capability of some electric plants to burn the least expensive of these...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... communities and for the rural majority Nevertheless, the available data allows us to piece together a picture of the extent of antimicrobial resistance in the most populous country in the world To examine ... or groups of countries that are likely to leap ahead in their integration with the rest of the world – China being the standout case – have high and distinctive patterns of resistance, then a coordinated ... that stand relatively distant from these two Accordingly, we compare the experiences of the U.S and China with new data on the resistance experience of Kuwait The first section gives brief background...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... characterized by the presence of monobasic amino acids None of the isolates had the sequence motif of 111GR/KRQRK/RF117, a characteristic of the virulent strains All 43 NDVs had an avirulent motif of monobasic ... seven of the nine genotypes of class I NDVs in waterfowl and shore birds in the US while [21] reported the presence of class I genotype NDVs in domestic ducks in Korea Of the 43 isolates, 42 had the ... at their F gene cleavage sites Of the 43 isolates, 23 exhibited sequence motif of 111GGKQGRL117, 19 exhibited the sequence motif of 111GEKQGRL117, and one isolate exhibited the sequence motif of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... are also grateful to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and to the Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine for financial ... not appear on the death record if the clinician completing the certificate were unaware of the diagnosis, or did not believe the condition to be an important contributor to the death The frequency ... characteristic of other administrative datasets We cannot directly assess the accuracy of the data Misclassification of sepsis-related death can result from errors in diagnosis and in the completion of death...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22

... that there is too much regulation, in the past 25 years they have supported the deregulation of the financial sector, the airlines, and communications They currently support the deregulation of the ... explanation of the measures used in the graph below As can be seen from the graph, the misery index is simply the unemployment rate added to the inflation rate When either is high, there is some level of ... can see that the period of late 1970s and early 1980s is a typical example of stagflation of the economy, which is the combination of low growth rate, in other words the “stag”, together with high...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:53

... along the rows of the table, the columns of the table, or even the diagonal Indeed, in the Swedish data the monotonicity extends across the property boundary as well In the United States the results ... follow the predictions of the hypothesis: as you move from the working-class corner of the matrix to the expert-manager corner, the values on the scale decline in a perfectly monotonic manner, whether ... consistent If we look only at the four corners of the employee portion of the matrix, then the predicted monotonicity holds The deviations from Hypothesis come with some of the intermediary values...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... upon the negotiations at the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea Responses to the Law of the Sea Convention Article 234 of the LOS Convention provides multilateral recognition of the special ... both sides of the Arctic Ocean.33 The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War diminished these threats 32 33 On the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in the context of vessel-source ... Atmospheric Administration), the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, the Department of State, the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20