... Union 61; The (positive) fateofhistoricalnationaltrademark applications: thecreationofseniority 62; A single market: use in few countries, valid in 27 states 62; The expansion ofthe CTM ... on Trade- Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights technology readiness level Italian National Patent and Trademark Of ce UK Intellectual Property Of ce US Patent and Trademark Of ce US Trade ... result ofthe material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or any ofthe authors The views expressed in this book are those ofthe authors and are not necessarily the...
... mechanisms Therefore, the results not reject the hypothesis H2b Nevertheless, even if this is the case, the effect ofthe improvement of corporate governance cannot be ignored The Cramer's V ofthe ... proportions of each ofthe 10 digits (zero to nine) in each place ofthe earnings numbers under the null hypothesis The true distribution ofthe digits without managerial manipulation ofthe reported ... Research The FTSE Group (2010) distinguishes between advanced and secondary emerging markets on the basis of their national income and the development of their market infrastructure The advanced...
... Gallon of Ethanol Net feedstock cost per gallon of ethanol is equal to the value ofthe feedstock minus the value of byproducts divided by the number of gallons of ethanol produced per unit of feedstock ... reducing the supply of sugar for food use in the domestic market The purpose of this report is to investigate the feasibility of producing ethanol from sugar feedstocks in the United States In the ... 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...
... Gallon of Ethanol Net feedstock cost per gallon of ethanol is equal to the value ofthe feedstock minus the value of byproducts divided by the number of gallons of ethanol produced per unit of feedstock ... reducing the supply of sugar for food use in the domestic market The purpose of this report is to investigate the feasibility of producing ethanol from sugar feedstocks in the United States In the ... 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...
... background and SES These measures are (a) whether the mother or father ofthe respondent was dead at the time ofthe collection ofthe retrospective data, and if so their age of death which could ... ‘explanation’ ofthe excess disease in the US arises from the inclusion in the model ofthe indicators of prevalence ofthe specific childhood illnesses themselves as opposed to the interactions of these ... the mother or father ofthe respondent was dead at the time ofthe HRS or ELSA survey interview—an effect that is larger the younger the age at which parent died The effect of these variables is...
... 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 ofthe leaf (1) Uptake of O3 by ... States In the United States, the Clean Air Act mandates the protection of human health and welfare from the effects of exposure to tropospheric O3 through the setting of primary and secondary National ... Network (NCLAN), which was the first large-scale and systematic study ofthe impact of O3 on crops in the world The primary objectives ofthe NCLAN study were to (a) define the O3 exposure/ crop-yield...
... because of their use ofthe benchmarking techniques they employed The aim ofthe American firms was to learn enough from their competitors to beat them at their own game To this, they identified their ... status ofthe students, the nature ofthe assessments that students must take, the nature ofthe qualifications they might earn and so on, in great detail In this way, while the causal nature of ... in the northeast ofthe United States would perform at 510 PISA score points – 17 score points above the OECD average (comparable with the performance ofthe Netherlands) but still well below the...
... 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 ofthe South reached the third stage in the development ofthe education ofthe 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...
... 0.5 by 2007 Another remarkable change is that the rates of PAs to population and the average wages of PAs vary greatly across the 50 states and District of Columbia Furthermore, there is a growing ... supply ofthe PA workforce Recruiting younger PA students might also help to balance the ratio of males to females, since the 'feminization' ofthe 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...
... 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 thepositive coefficients of physical health-related ... improved the physical and psychological health of these patients to levels comparable with or greater than the physical and psychological health ofthe general population in the United States List of ... two sources: the 1998 National Survey of Functional Health Status (NSFHS) and the 2002 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS) The NSFHS is a representative sample (N = 1,982) ofthe non-institutionalized...
... The sleep quantity scale is the mean number of hours of sleep per night reported over the past week Higher scores represent more ofthe concept being measured The HADS is designed to detect the ... patients versus 21.9 among the controls [5] A national survey of women in the US with FM and a mean age of 47 years, found that the mean level of physical functioning in their overall sample was ... one ofthe 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...
... status (professional or volunteer); the date, cause, and mechanism of death; and the city and state ofthe fire department Duties at the Time of Death On the basis ofthe summary report of each ... that ofthe 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...
... common in the Northeast 11 12 THE GOSPEL OF WEALTH I THE PROBLEM OFTHE 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 ... ofthe Labor Question," was published on the eve ofthe Haymarket Bombing In the pragmatism of its approach, the essay stands in remarkable contrast to the moralistic and utopian visions of the...
... 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 ofthe Nation, with the exception ofthe ... varies according to the quality ofthe fuels, defined by their carbon content and the associated heating value (Btu).15 The Btu content of fuels is a determinant ofthe 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...
... communities and for the rural majority Nevertheless, the available data allows us to piece together a picture ofthe extent of antimicrobial resistance in the most populous country in the world To examine ... that are likely to leap ahead in their integration with the rest ofthe world – China being the standout case – have high and distinctive patterns of resistance, then a coordinated response could ... to control the spread of resistance The literature to date provides only limited evidence on these issues We study the pattern of antibiotic resistance in specific countries to gauge the range...
... characterized by the presence of monobasic amino acids None ofthe isolates had the sequence motif of 111GR/KRQRK/RF117, a characteristic ofthe virulent strains All 43 NDVs had an avirulent motif of monobasic ... testing of more samples might have led to isolation of more NDVs The isolation of NDV from AIV positive samples indicates the presence of both viruses (AIV and NDV) in waterfowl The AIV positive ... seven ofthe 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 Ofthe 43 isolates, 42 had the...
... are also grateful to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and to the Department of Preventive Medicine ofthe 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 ofthe 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 ofthe data Misclassification of sepsis-related death can result from errors in diagnosis and in the completion of death...
... growth ofthe money supply, and the government can cause stagnation by excessive regulation of goods markets and labor markets, either of these factors can cause stagflation Excessive growth ofthe ... that there is too much regulation, in the past 25 years they have supported the deregulation ofthe financial sector, the airlines, and communications They currently support the deregulation ofthe ... explanation ofthe 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...
... along the rows ofthe table, the columns ofthe 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 ofthe hypothesis: as you move from the working-class corner ofthe 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 ofthe employee portion ofthe matrix, then the predicted monotonicity holds The deviations from Hypothesis come with some ofthe intermediary values...
... upon the negotiations at the Third UN Conference on the Law ofthe Sea Responses to the Law ofthe Sea Convention Article 234 ofthe LOS Convention provides multilateral recognition ofthe special ... both sides ofthe Arctic Ocean.33 The disintegration ofthe Soviet Union and the end ofthe 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 ofthe Interior, the Department of State, the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection...