... a stable supply of knowledge and skills in high need areas Increase the size, diversity of skills and productivity of the labor force Dimensions of Social and Economic Value Regional public institutions ... their state andregional economies, including generating an average return of up to $5 for every $1 of state tax dollar invested (Source: National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant ... Contributions Education and Human Capital Development Creators of Knowledge and Sources of Innovation Indirect Impact: Operations Purchasing and Procurement Activities Preservation of Economic Infrastructure...
... Standard National Wildlife Federation Oil and gas Outer Continental Shelf Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (EPA) Oil & Gas Accountability Project Office of Policy, Economics, and ... Region and the individual states’ environmental programs Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Following enactment of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct), EPA entered into a Memorandum of Understanding ... implications and potential risks of expanding oil and gas production on public lands and in general For example, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), National Wildlife Federation (NWF), and Oil...
... E.L Glaeser and D.C Mare Cities and skills Journal of Labor Economics, 19:316–342, 2001 Green, J., and Scotchmer, S., “On the division of profit in sequential innovation,” RAND Journal of Economics, ... the features of an IPR system, and the foregoing studies emphasize the usefulness of the concepts of “patentability” and “infringement.” For instance, in the two-period model of Green and Scotchmer ... with some abuse of notation, we can write the strategy of the Leader as σ L ( k ) and the strategy of the Follower as σ F ( k ) At any stage of the game, the expected payoff of a firm for the...
... status of the chondrocyte is central to our understanding of the initiation and progression of osteoarthrits (OA) [16] An initial anabolic response of chondrocytes in OA includes an upregulation of ... proliferation, adhesion and responses to growth factors and cytokines [2,3] The SLRPs all bind to fibrillar type I and/ or II collagens [4-6] and, in the case of decorin, to fibromodulin and lumican; these ... medial and lateral joint compartments, and across the width of the tibial plateaux A significant loss of proteoglycan was evident in the superficial cartilage of both the LTP (Fig 1d, e) and, to...
... EL and HA: carried out the immunofluorescence assays and drafted the manuscript; JLB and MS: conceived the envelope-derived tagged ligands while; JLB, HA, ML and JT: generated, optimized and ... as: Lagrue et al.: Regional characterization of energy metabolism in the brain of normal and MPTP-intoxicated mice using new markers of glucose and phosphate transport Journal of Biomedical Science ... ligands for the detection and the study of transporters of interest We previously reported an HTLV Env RBDbased immunoadhesin (HRBD) that serves as a uniquely useful extracellular ligand of the...
... bone turnover and foot pain (VAS score of 83 out of 100) One month after the start of alendronate treatment, bone pain had fallen from a VAS score of 83 out of 100 to 30 out of 100 and was further ... observed improvement of pain and osteoporotic changes was a consequence of spontaneous amelioration of the disease However, in regard to the immediate improvement of pain andregional osteoporosis ... after the start of risedronate treatment, bone pain had fallen from a VAS score of 59 out of 100 to 18 out of 100, and we temporarily discontinued treatment at five months because of successful...
... herds) Materials and methods The member pig herds of Lihakunta The number of farrowing and farrowing-to-finishing herds in this study was 153 and 85, respectively, and the number of specialised ... findings indicated failures of the Acta vet scand vol 42 no 3, 2001 Figure A map of Finland showing the regional distribution of member pig herds of cooperative slaughterhouse Lihakunta which ... Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Veterinary and Food Department Helsinki Anonymous: Animal diseases in Finland in 1999 Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Veterinary and Food Department...
... regional development as a coupling process between regionaland extra -regional actors, conditioned by the organization of production and marketing, transnational/trans -regional communities, and ... trans -regional communities for regional development Studies of the new regionalism have revealed that local communities support collaborative networks of firms and other actors, and facilitate regional ... comprehensive and dynamic understanding ofregional development 17 Chapter Literature review ofregional development: organizational, cognitive and socio-institutional approaches 2.1 Introduction Regional...
... ROLES OF AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE IN THE REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF FDI IN CHINA NGO QUANG VINH A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SOCIAL SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF ... wage rate, infrastructure, capital-labour ratio and tax policies Regional GDP per head measures the power of market demand of a province and higher regional GDP per head will help to attract foreign ... comparative advantage is infrastructure and I only use the sum of total lengths of highway and railroad divided by the regional land area Some papers include waterway and sea ports in the calculation,...
... NAME AND OBJECT Name The name of the organization is “Military Advanced RegionalAnesthesia & Analgesia (MARAA).” Object The object of the organization is the promotion ofregionalanesthesiaand ... detailed understanding of the anatomy of these nerve plexuses and surrounding structures is essential for the safe and successful practice ofregionalanesthesia in this area of the body Cervical ... journal RegionalAnesthesiaand Pain Medicine The guidelines were a collaborative effort of a group of North American regionalanesthesia fellowship program directors who met to establish a standardized...
... as a cache of secondary storage data pages The effect of this kind of caching on the performance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic Compilation of a small program ... introduction of new hardware architectures and was never able to efficiently support the large body of UNIX software used within the academic community [16] In addition, from the point of view of a system ... network copy-on-reference of process data The interaction of message and memory primitives can also be an important tool in the design and implementation of transaction and database management...
... for attempting to understand historical patterns of law and authority, by reference to interior moral and exterior political impulses, and versions of history and visions of the future, in chapter ... ‘globalise’ and ‘universalise’, suggesting the attempt or purport of the act of globalising and universalising, falling short of the achievement of the actual end of this action Such a use of the ... Introduction understand the reality of law and what constitutes law; to attempt to fathom, where possible, the limits and potentials of attitudes towards the social order and law; and to formulate...
... Ecosystems and Environment, 27, 493-503 Qiao, L., Hofstede, H and Ho, G E (1993) The mobility of heavy metals in clay amended sewage sludge and municipal solid waste compost In: Proceeding of 9th ... fixing of the free metal ions through metal precipitation as hydroxides and carbonates, adsorption onto oxides and mineral surfaces and chemisorption or complexation with inorganic ligands The ... 1993) In order to determine the long-term fate and potential hazard of land application of MSW compost, it is necessary to investigate the speciation of heavy metals Difficulties in studying this...
... behalf of the account holder, and giving specimen signatures and relevant information banknote / b ŋknəυt/ noun a piece of printed paper money (in England, issued by the Bank of England; in Scotland, ... average, £15 worth of goods are stolen every day the sharing of the cost of damage or loss of a ship between the insurers and the owners í adjective equal to the average of a set of figures ć the ... matters as the issue of shares, the conduct of meetings and the appointment of directors ć This procedure is not allowed under the articles of association of the company articles of incorporation...
... later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail trade sector, where the number of women rose from about ... decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and 250 000 women ... finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased to 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men...
... (sum of y)] [(n) (sum of (xx)) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (36 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 Index y = rate of return for the fund 14 Dictionary of Financial ... makeup of the liabilities and stockholders' equity side of the balance sheet, especially the ratio of debt to equity and the mixture of short and long maturities Capital surplus Amounts of directly ... Deferred annuities offer deferral of taxes with the option of withdrawing one's funds in the form of life annuity Deficit An excess of liabilities over assets, of losses over profits, or of expenditure...