... historical basis, but itwould be mistaken to assume that the association is immutable. It is clear, however, that governments mustdisplay care and maintain a clear focus if they are toensure that ... firm-specific human capital. Forexample, Jacobson et al (199 3a, b) find that the USworkers laid off after long job tenure earned 25% belowtheir pre-dismissal wages after five years. Rama andMacIsaac (1999) ... pan-territorial pricing. For them, functioning markets have largely disappeared. The status quo ante was one of a soleparastatal buyer; the status quo is that often thereis no buyer at all or, if there...
... coupleat risk of bearing a severely handicapped child make the decision to go ahead,then who precisely will bear the cost of care and of medical treatment if therisks attendant upon handicap materialize? ... carries the practical advan-tage that the courts can understand and accommodate this form of damage,which allows for a distinction to be made between the serious and slightdefect’ (Mason and ... partially blind anddeaf. The allegation was made that one doctor had acted negligently in failingto treat rubella infection. Also it was claimed that another doctor had eithernegligently mislaid...
... festival efforts in Barbados, indicate that thereisa Caribbean cinema. However, this cinema is in a state of infancy. What then is needed to bring this Caribbean filmmaking out of the basement ... singular style of Caribbean cinema, thereisa cultural sensibility that one can look at and begin to say that this is something typically Caribbean. New filmmakers Howard and Mitzi Allen, ... Caribbean cinema. Cham adds that while there may not be any one style of filmmaking that isa Caribbean style, there are however, a cluster of styles and aesthetics that can be explored and...
... and I think it has decent explanatory power over this phenom-enon. There isa particular kind of irrationalism Adorno iden-tified, which is characteristic of authoritarian politics (and therefore ... facts about global warming, still less in pretending that DDT (a commodity chemical) isa panacea for malaria and as far as I can see none at all in “intelligent design”. In-telligent design isn’t ... individuals isa characteristic feature of the war on science.Despite valiant attempts, though, the war on science has been far less successful in Australia than in the US. Although the Australian...
... 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 ... behavior of borrowers after the transaction occurred (moral hazard). It is important to distinguish between real and personal guarantees. Personal guarantees are contractual obligations of a ... share of real-estate loans, which have to be assisted by collateral, according to Italian law. As regards producer households, individual data at bank and firm level show that both real and...
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... 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 ... (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia): SEE= Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia & Montenegro: CEE = Central and European countries (Poland, Hungary, Czech and ... they all exploit natural resources. Algeria has huge reserves of natural gas and other hydrocarbons and is the largest supplier of natural gas to the European Union. Tunisia has also an oil-sector...
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... 4(page number not for citation purposes)Statistical analysisData are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD) oras number and percentage where appropriated. Statisticalanalysis 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 AbstractBackground: ... a clinical point of view, although at thismoment did not raise a statistical significance. Further-more, from a clinical point of view, in fact, these data mayexplain better the personal and...
... hypothesis testing. Results from quantitative analyses,assuming adequate sampling and appropriate statisticalanalyses are objective and comparable. Data from thistype of research are normally ... Slim Fast, SportsFlex, VitabalanceAloe Vera, Alpha-lipoic Acid, Amino Acids, Arnica, Black strap molasses, Calcium, Calendula, Carbohydrate & recovery drinks, C-Glutamine, Chinese Tea, Chromium, ... analyzing quantitative orqualitative data. Although qualitative approaches havethe advantage of producing deep understanding of ath-letes' motivations, data from these studies are not suitablefor...
... imped-ance was <4 kohms. All patients came from North Greece(Latitude 40–40.1° North).Statistical analysisIt 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 EveningPlasma Melatonin and Dexamethasone Suppression Test inNon-Seasonal ... Diagnostic Melancholia Scaleand the GAF scale. Flash Electroretinogram and Electrooculogram were performed in all subjects.The statistical analysis included ANCOVA, Student's t-test and...
... respectively. A great majo rity of pati ents in no-RTTable 4 The impact of clinical and pathologic factors on the overall survivalFactors Assessed Univariate Analysis Multivariate AnalysisHazard Ratio ... was definedas DM.Statistical AnalysisLRR and DM rates were calculated by first event analy-sis. If a distant metastasis developed, then subsequentlocal failures were censored (vice versa). ... staging was reviewed based onAJCC 2002. The date of evaluation was January 2009.Patient-related characteristi cs (age, menopausal status,pathological stage/tumor size, tumor location, histology,estrogen/progesterone...
... either inadult or neonatal mice can cause catastrophic autoimmunity[93] and FoxP3 mutations in humans cause lethal diseases[94,95]. Recent data have shown that the ablation of all DCs,although ... rheumatoid arthritis. Macrophages. Arthritis Res Ther 2007,9:224.79. Cutolo M, Sulli A, Barone A, Seriolo B, Accardo S: Macrophages,synovial tissue and rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Exp Rheumatol1993, ... Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2004,101:12646-12651.91. Gelderman KA, Hultqvist M, Pizzolla A, Zhao M, Nandakumar KS,Mattsson R, Holmdahl R: Macrophages suppress T cellresponses and arthritis development...