... approach, in a sense, tries to capture the societal debates about environment and politicaleconomy rather than just the academic debates over the theories ofthepoliticaleconomyofthe environment.Naturally, ... scienceand international relations. They share many ofthe broad assumptionsand arguments of market liberals—especially the belief in the value of economic growth, globalization, trade, foreign ... divides the world into arti-ficial territories, aggravates the effects of too many humans, because itviolates the principles of ecology and creates what academic GarrettHardin famously called a “tragedy...
... Goad,Joshua Gordon, Jeca Glor-Bell, and Sanushka Mudaliar also helpedimmeasurably with the research. We are grateful to the AustralianResearch Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil ... the theories ofthepoliticaleconomyofthe environment.Naturally, given the breadth of our labels, many disagreements existamong those in each category. We have tried to show the range of ... divides the world into arti-ficial territories, aggravates the effects of too many humans, because itviolates the principles of ecology and creates what academic GarrettHardin famously called a “tragedy...
... conglomerates such as AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare, and Pharmacia (now absorbed by Pfizer). The big pharma company AstraZeneca alone accounts for the bulk of private bio-based research and development. ... (Australian Research Council 2002). Health and medical research is also an area of traditional strength and in the 1990s biotechnology and pharmaceuticals emerged as fields of relative specialisation ... research sector and the big pharma companies are of very recent vintage and remain weak and fragile by comparison to Sweden, the UK and the USA. According to the pharma industry its aggregate...
... and the abolition of dual financing for hospitals were killed off by the opposition in the Bundesrat. All the government was able to ob tain was a reform of hospital finance.Instead ofa standard ... Affairs ofthe Land of Bavaria encour-aged the local health care funds to do exactly this. The year 2003 became the year of health care reform. Scandals involving financialconspiracies between ... Bundesrat was accompa nied by a large-scalecampaign involving all the major players in the health sector: doctors’ associations, the pharmaceutical industry, and the health insurance funds,63not...
... provincial departments (and not just the Department of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Tourism), as well as the work of local government, national departments, parastatals and the many other stakeholders ... providers, Iafrica.com and M-Web, are based in the province, and more than 50 call centres are located in the larger Cape Town area. One ofthe most successful integrators of traditional media and Internet ... competitors, unless the knowledge transfer takes place under circumstances that hold clear and immediate advantages for them. Such advantages have classically taken the form ofthe relatively low cost...
... introduced the main areas ofthe virtual economy and described the dierent business models that are used in them. In each ofthe areas it was found that at least some part of the economic activity ... secondary market are located in Asia. The participation ratio for these markets is estimated to be roughly the same as for major Asian markets (China, Korea).Source: Authors’ calculations based ... available tasks on a website and allow any Internet user to complete a task of their choice against compensation. e pioneering task marketplace is Amazon Mechanical Turk. Other task marketplaces...
... ii.]With the rise of this system, and the attendant increased importation of slaves, came the end ofthe helpfulcontact of servants with their masters. Slavery was thereby changed from a patriarchal ... did notreach all parts ofthe colony.[2] The Quakers of North Carolina, however, had local schools and actuallytaught slaves. Some of these could read and write as early as 1731. Thereafter, household ... advocates ofthe education of the Negroes endeavored to give them such practical training as their peculiar needs demanded. In the agricultural sections the first duty ofthe teacher ofthe blacks was...
... number of borrowers and outstanding loans (ii) analysis of overdues (iii) the average effective rate of interest, the average cost of funds and the average margin earned (iv) analysis ofthe ... clients, and 63.6% ofthe loan portfolio of Microfinance provided by all MFIs. We also examined the financials for the same year of two smaller MFIs. The results of that analysis are as under:- ... private equity has entered the sector. On the one hand, there was a huge unsatisfied demand for microfinance credit and on the other, there was a limitation on the capacity of not-for-profit...
... N- and C-termini [33] and a transmembrane a helix in the central region (Fig. 1 ). On thisbasis, and in view ofthe finding that the C-terminal part of the LH1 a polypeptide plays an important ... via the plasmid pRKX (in trans) into the host Rb. s phaeroides DQx/g, deprived ofthe chromosomal copy ofthe puf operon.Table 1. Bacterial strains and plasmids. The plasmid host strain in all the ... between that of the monomeric and the dimeric form ( see above) inmutant PufX54*. As in these last two mutants a short lagwas observed (see Table 2), apparently the presence of a stable dimer...
... and habit required at the start ofa war a declaration to that effect, a declaration accompanied by the withdrawal of ambassadors. But neither Peking nor London had ambassadors positioned and ... more about Americans in China in the early nineteenth century than any man alive, made available to me xerox copies ofa portion ofthe Carrington papers and read a large part ofthe manuscript ... was at its height, the admirers still imagined (as they had always and with perfect accuracy imagined) that the object of their admiration was as powerful as it was advanced. Yet for all that...
... analyses. AB drafted the manuscript andparticipated in the statistical analyses. JWV and GM revised the manuscriptcritically. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.Berkes et al. Health ... part in the adaptation processfor the PedsQL™ 3.0 Cardiac Module only; the Hungar-ian Generic Core Scale was already available through the MAPI Research Institute.Statistical analysisFeasibility ... gender.It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% ofthe sample.Distribution of all participants...
... severalclinical variables: 1) laboratory indicators: fasting plasmaglucose, 2-hour postprandial plasma glucose, and HbA1c,and 2) complications of diabetes: retinopathy, neuropa- Health and Quality of ... Baltimore, MD, USA, 4Tainan Hospital, Department of Health, Tainan, Taiwan and 5Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USAEmail: ... distribution-based approach, we estimated a stand-ard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for relia-bility ofthe DQOL and standard deviation of patientsunder the investigation. SEM was estimated by a...
... SMP, IAP, JWV and PJA conceptualized the rationaleand design ofthe study. MLRJ contributed to the statisticalanalysis and interpretation ofthe data. ACS and SMPdrafted the manuscript. All authors ... USAEmail: Ana C Scarpelli - anascap@yahoo.com.br; Saul M Paiva* - saul.paiva@mcgill.ca; Isabela A Pordeus - isabela@netuno.lcc.ufmg.br; Maria L Ramos-Jorge - mlrjorge@hotmail.com; James W Varni ... was no report by the patients or guardians of anylack of comprehension regarding the questions. The lack of validation studies on assessment scales of the quality of life among children and adolescents...
... scoreinterpretations from these data [15]. Additionally, the wayeach rating scale is constructed has great influence on the quality of data obtained from the scale [16], and a ratingscale may not be used ... in the way it wasintended by the developer ofthe scale [15]. Thus, the assumptions about both the quality ofthe measures andutility ofthe rating scale in facilitating interpretable meas-ures ... citation purposes)aration are low, while item reliability and separation arehigh. As we mentioned earlier, these results indicate that the sample has a narrow spread and the sample size islarge...
... groups. In addition, the patterns during early and late phases of phrenic neuro-gram were almost the same as those of gasping. As matu-ration proceeds, the similarity between the late phase of phrenic ... piglets. After the first week of postnatalage, the duration ofthe phrenic neurogram burst significantly increases and the patterns during the early phase ofthe phrenic neurogram are different ... neurogram isnot a periodic signal and that its characteristics changerapidly during maturation. The dominant burst type activ-ities disappeared during the early phase ofthe phrenicneurogram although...