... 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) ... substantially worse than would have arisen solely from the removal of pan-territorial pricing. For them, functioning markets have largely disappeared. The status quo ante was one ofa soleparastatal ... soleparastatal buyer; the status quo is that often thereis no buyer at all or, if there is, the terms of trade are so poor thattransactions occur on a barter basis.It is difficult to disentangle...
... without having screening? What of a situation in which they are aware of the risk that ‘harm’ may arise, but theyargue that the disorder isa late-onset disorder, as a consequence not mani-festing ... rubella and as a consequence was partially blind anddeaf. The allegation was made that one doctor had acted negligently in failingto treat rubella infection. Also it was claimed that another ... 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...
... 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 of cinema and into the mainstream ... concept of 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 ... that all black people have as a result of their ties to Africa. I extend this point to Caribbean people of all races in that, the unity that all Caribbean people is also be a result of having...
... Q isa finite set of states, q0 is the initial state, L is the set of labels above, 6 isa partial function from Q x L to Q, and r isa partial function from terminating states ofA to A. ... FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR William C. Rounds University of Michigan Xerox PARC Alexis Manaster-Ramer IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Wayne State University I Abstract Kay's functional-unification ... Linguistics Society, Berkeley, Califor- nia, February 17-19, 1979. [6] Pereira, F.C.N., and D. Warren, Definite Clause Gram- mars for Language Analysis: A Survey of the Formal- ism and a Comparison...
... Balog-Szemer´edi-Gowers-Freiman). Let A be a subset of an abelian group G, and suppose that there are at least δ |A| 3additivequadruples (a 1, a 2, a 3, a 4) in A 4with a 1+ a 2= a 3+ a 4. Then thereisa regularBourgain ... A and that m 1 is an integer. We say that Ais m-arithmeticallyconnected if, for any set A ⊆ A with |A | = m we have either(i) A is not dissociated or(ii) A is dissociated, and there ... analogue of Freiman’s theorem, which gives a fairly strong characterisation of subsets A ⊆Fn2satisfying a small doubling condition |A + A| K |A| . An analogue of this theorem for any abelian group...
... which is characteristic of authoritarian politics (and therefore also, I hardly need to say, of the kind of authoritar-ian politics which these days calls itself “libertarian” but never saw a ... theory is right out of fashion these days, but it’s always appealed to me and I think it has decent explanatory power over this phenom-enon. There isa particular kind of irrationalism Adorno ... journalist Chris Mooney made the case that, again and again, even overwhelming scientifi c consensus has met immovable political obstacles. And, again and again, those obstacles have arisen on the...
... 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 ... Italian banks (which cover about 75 per cent of total assets of Italian banking system).5 Aggregated data on real and personal guarantees are drawn from bank supervision reports and are available ... 3. Data and summary statistics This paper uses aggregated and individual Italian bank and firm data drawn from several sources. Aggregated time series on interest rates are drawn from harmonized...
... KaliaH.SadhakGautam MehraHarsh BishtJesal Lakdawala Malvika Singh Nehal D Sampat Nidhi JainSneha BhagatTrisha ChatterjiVivek PrasadAbout PwCPricewaterhouseCoopers Pvt Ltd isa leading professional ... take this opportunity to thank all the team members for their contribution to the creation and nalisation of this report.Team Members:Anuradha SanghaviArun SwaminathanAvinash KaliaH.SadhakGautam ... 15in tax, including at times, ‘safe harbour’ rules which ease the manner of taxation of the income arising out of such activities.An additional line of business available to AMCs is the management...
... 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 ... Note: MGB= Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia): SEE= Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia & Montenegro: CEE = Central and European countries ... which are all-important factors that can determine the success or failure of a PTA. Wonnacott and Lutz (1989) and later Deardoff and Stern (1994) present a modified versionofa natural trading...
... physics and mathematics.i h˙ψ = H ψ Quantum MechanicsS = k log W Statistical MechanicsI−Distribution at InterfaceChemistryChemistry is the science of atomic matter, especially itschemical ... Calculations+Molecular DynamicsComputational ChemistryComputational chemistry isa branch of chemistry that usesprinciples of computer science to assist in solving chemicalproblems.Quantum Mechanics Molelcular ... Molelcular Orbital TheoryDensity Functional TheoryAb Initio CalculationsStatistical Mechanics Molecular DynamicsMonte CarloTransition State TheoryI−/I−2Association•Barrierless association...
... obvious,’’ Aristotle asks, ‘‘that a state may at length attain such a degree of unity as to be notlonger a state?—since the nature ofa state is to be a plurality.’’4Plato’s strong conception of unity ... our nature as moral agents: that is, of our capacity to actas responsible agents, and proper subjects of rights and obliga-tions, of praise and blame. For that reason, ‘‘to renounce one’sfreedom ... on any acquirerBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataData availableLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2009941595Typeset by Laserwords...
... 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: ... vascular complications, although data on largerpopulation are needed; this aspect may be another relevant topic of research based because also a link between the pathogenesis of venous thrombosis...
... the causalpathways between pay satisfaction, job satisfaction,organizational commitment and turnover intent [7]. Theoverall conclusion was that nurses, who are satisfied withjob and pay, are ... 15 on job satisfaction data at 6 and18 months using principal component analysis with var-imax rotation and Kaiser normalization to ascertainwhether the eight factors (Care, Staffing, Development,Relationships, ... patient mortality, nurse burnout, and jobdissatisfaction. Journal of the American Medical Association 2002,288(16):1987-1993.31. Shaver KH, Lacey LM: Job and career satisfaction among staffnurses...
... of Chi-nese and English. The back-translation was comparedwith the original English version by a native Englishspeaker. We repeated back-translations and made furthermodifications until a ... effectiveness after BTX injection, which wasdifferent from what was used by Tan [5].Statistical analysisThe Statistical Program for Social Sciences (SPSS) statisti-cal software (version 16.0) ... backwardtranslation. This process was conducted to make sure theconceptually equivalent to the English version, as well asclear and easy to understand. The HFS-30 English version was translated separately...