... 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) ... 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 ... 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 ... weighted average rates daily traded on the Interbank Deposit Market. Guarantees. Real guarantees are mainly mortgages granted by borrowers to the bank; personal guarantees are guarantees granted ... 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...
... that and youmay come to a wrong conclusion as to what the worst menace is Richard KadreyButcher BirdSpyder Lee isa happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an ... It is an intangible and evasive—thing—but veryreal. And it is coming closer! It has no organs of sight as I know them,but I feel that it can see me. Or rather that it is aware of me with a sensesharper ... with the same leashedvirulence about it, moves up and stands at my other side. We all threewait, myself with a dark fear of this dismal universe, my unnatural com-panions with patient, malicious...
... conclusion as to what the worst menace is Richard KadreyButcher BirdSpyder Lee isa happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head offbefore ... with the same leashedvirulence about it, moves up and stands at my other side. We all threewait, myself with a dark fear of this dismal universe, my unnatural com-panions with patient, malicious ... It is an intangible and evasive—thing—but veryreal. And it is coming closer! It has no organs of sight as I know them,but I feel that it can see me. Or rather that it is aware of me with a sensesharper...
... Gram-positive bacteria (Listeriamonocytogenes ATCC 19115, Staph. aureus ATCC 259 23, Staph. aureus ATCC BAA -39 , and Staph. aureus ATCC 433 00) were purchased from either ATCC (Manassas, VA,USA) or MicroBiologics ... Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA 3 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USACationic antimicrobial peptides comprise a large ... bean excellent candidate for future development as a novel antimicrobial andantisepsis agent, particularly against antibiotic-resistant pathogens.AbbreviationsCCL, CC chemokine ligand; CFU, colony...
... couldn't find any list of where all the fab labs in the world were or what a fab lab was or is it an organisation, is it just a name, is it just a casual name, you know, like a I don't ... logistics, lack of a central Fab Lab organisation, lacking outreach to society at large, too strong a focus on technology 11 100.00% Table 7: The pain of Fab Lab managers and assistants ... benefit a large population. Another maybe slightly amusing example that initially started in a Fab Lab is the ‘chocolate letter Pi’. Dutch natural scientist Hans Wisbrun combined his fascination as...
... 30 min at 37 °C in 95% air and 5% CO2, followed by treatment with TCDDfor 3 h. Then, a caspase -3 activation assay was performed for theevaluation of apoptosis. Data are presented as average ... indicated) for 3 h. Finally, the effect of over-expression of DN-PKCh in L-MAT cells on TCDD-induced apopto-sis was evaluated by assessing caspase -3 activation. Data are shown as average values ... CO2.Apoptosis assay by determination of acetyl-Asp-Glu-Val-Asp ⁄ 7-amino-4-methylcoumarin(AcDEVD-AMC) cleavageThroughout the study we used the detection of caspase -3 activation to evaluate apoptosis...