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... Maghreb countries’ revealed comparative advantage and export specialization also reveals that Tunisia’s exports of beverages have a strong comparative advantage in the Maghreb market whereas Algeria ... What Maghreb’s comparative advantages reveal about the prospects for regional trade integration? (v) What is the Maghreb’s trade and FDI potential after controlling for relevant factors that are ... Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia): SEE= Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia & Montenegro: CEE = Central and European countries (Poland,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2014, 12:51

... DMe Alive DM Death DM Death DM Death DM Death DM Alive Out-come a Lateral, bMedial, cInvasive ductal carcinoma, dInvasive Paget’s disease, eDistance metastasis patients had lung metastasis and ... surgical margins (>1 mm) Axillary lymph node staging was performed in all patients Pathological staging was reviewed based on AJCC 2002 The date of evaluation was January 2009 Patient-related characteristics ... supraclavicular fossa or in the internal mammary chain was considered as a regional recurrence Any recurrence outside these areas was defined as DM Statistical Analysis LRR and DM rates were calculated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... that DDT (a commodity chemical) is a panacea for malaria and as far as I can see none at all in “intelligent design” Intelligent design isn’t even a particularly congenial theory for fundamentalist ... on acid-free paper Parlor Press, LLC is an independent publisher of scholarly and trade titles in print and multimedia formats This book is available in paper and Adobe eBook formats from Parlor ... (now-dissolved) Tobacco Institute of Australia The teaching of creationism is much less of a hot button issue in Australia than in America, partly because belief in Biblical literalism is much weaker...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... usually within physics and mathematics ˙ i hψ=Hψ Quantum Mechanics S = k log W Statistical Mechanics Computational Chemistry Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses principles ... to assist in solving chemical problems Quantum Mechanics Molelcular Orbital Theory Density Functional Theory Ab Initio Calculations Statistical Mechanics Molecular Dynamics Monte Carlo Transition ... reactions.(Wikipedia) Chemistry is the science that invents what it studies Theoretical Chemistry Theoretical chemistry is the study of chemistry via fundamental theoretical reasoning, usually...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:45

... sedimentation rate, and the patient global assessment of disease activity (100 mm visual analogue scale) [15] Cardiovascular risk factor ascertainment CV risk factors were ascertained among RA patients ... Statistical analysis Continuous variables are described as the mean ± standard deviation, and categorical variables presented as the percentage Log transformations were applied to non-normally ... age, continuous CV variables and dis- ease activity variables was evaluated using linear regression analysis In the absence of previous cIMT data in early RA, an a priori power calculation was...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... the mortality rate in premature infants with sepsis [13] NAC in animal experimental and human sepsis NAC increases nitric oxide synthesis and cGMP Several studies have demonstrated that NAC improves ... extraction, while at the same time attenuating inflammatory responses Prostacyclin, a prostaglandin synthesized in endothelial cells, is a potent vasodilator and an inhibitor of platelet and ... and colleagues have made a significant contribution to our understanding of the important role of antioxidant agents such as NAC in developing novel therapies for septic shock A large trial is...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... current data regarding the splanchnic effects of catecholamine should be considered as pharmacological investigations of a vasoactive agent evaluated by a particular monitoring device The discrepancy ... choice of catecholamine based on rational evaluation This is not the case for many situations in other clinical settings For example, catecholamines are used on the ward, during transportation, in ... SM, Ahrens TS, Annane D, Astiz ME, Chalfin DB, Dasta JF, Heard SO, Martin C, Napolitano LM, Susla GM, et al.: Practice parameters for hemodynamic support of sepsis in adult patients: 2004 update...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... Critical Care 2010, 14:194 http://ccforum.com/content/14/5/194 cardiac chamber was opened Can this observation be causally associated with tranexamic acid administration? The statistical analysis ... tranexamic acid administration has a place in higher risk cardiac surgery and especially in surgery where a cardiac chamber is opened Competing interests In the past years DR has acted as a paid ... and having primary myocardial revascularisation This patient population appears not to have observed safety issues when tranexamic acid was administered [5] The current study adds to the data questioning...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... used for weaning and time available for weaning and 2) to analyse the patient and systemic factors were associated with the time available for weaning that is actually used for weaning To the best ... identified a significant discrepancy To better understand the under-use of the available weaning time, we analysed patient and systemic factors associated with the time available for weaning that was actually ... available and time used for weaning, exists and is valid This discrepancy indicates that more studies on the organisational aspects of weaning are still needed Conclusion Our study revealed a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... pan-territorial pricing For them, functioning markets have largely disappeared The status quo ante was one of a sole parastatal buyer; the status quo is that often there is no buyer at all or, if there is, ... trade are so poor that transactions occur on a barter basis It is difficult to disentangle the relative importance of institutional and infrastructural factors in this market failure There has ... after five years Rama and MacIsaac (1999) find that employees displaced from the Ecuadorian Central Bank in 1994 had regained on average only 55% of their pre-dismissed salaries after 15 months...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 15:51

... of a situation in which they are aware of the risk that ‘harm’ may arise, but they argue that the disorder is a late-onset disorder, as a consequence not manifesting itself for many years Again, ... further that, ‘This carries the practical advantage that the courts can understand and accommodate this form of damage, which allows for a distinction to be made between the serious and slight ... Court of Appeal was unhappy regarding the evaluation of damages How could a court attempt to evaluate non-existence – to compare non-existence and the value of existence in a disabled state? The...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... and its derivatives used in this study Name Sequence (residues 91–100) WT polyAla AGG GAG GGA GAA AGA AAG GGD GGE GGL GGN GGS GGP GGGAGGGGGG *SA*AAAAA* AAA******* ****AAA*** *******AAA ****AAAAAA ... ****AAAAAA AAA****AAA AAA*AAA*** *******DDD *******EEE *******LLL *******NNN *******SSS *******PPP chloroplasts used for this assay [15] Furthermore, the intermediate and mature forms of Toc75 in a ... 22 23 24 tion apparatus, faces the stromal compartment J Biol Chem 273, 16583–16588 Gunasekaran K, Nagarajaram HA, Ramakrishnan C & Balaram P (1998) Stereochemical punctuation marks in protein...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... regarded as a transition graph for a partially specified deterministic finite automaton (DFA) This automaton recognises strings of labels, and has final states which are atoms, as well as final ... feature struc- 265 [10] Pereira, F C N and D H D Warren Definite clause grammars for language analysis a survey of the formalism and a comparison with augmented transition networks Arh'~¢ial ... superficial resemblance to modal operators Note that no information is added or subtracted by rewriting the feature matrix of Figure as a logical formula These two forms may be regarded as notational...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... Caribbean sea to include the Caribbean diaspora; places where Caribbean 25 people have migrated to and formed a community for example, the east coast of America, Canada and England Stuart Hall ... European languages with the Native American languages and African languages brought by the slaves The result of this mixture is the local patois and Creole languages that are unique to the Caribbean ... Caribbean filmmaking and the recent film festival efforts in Barbados, indicate that there is a Caribbean cinema However, this cinema is in a state of infancy What then is needed to bring this Caribbean...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam »  estination Country Participants: Bahrain, Italy, Kuwait, Malaysia, Qatar, D Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates In January 2008, the Abu Dhabi ... Saudi Arabia 383,031 United Arab Emirates 18,551 Egypt Unknown Jordan 16,821 Malaysia 85,835 Oman 31,317 Qatar Unknown Saudi Arabia 114,981 United Arab Emirates 6,443 Jordan Malaysia Pakistan ... available in villages and towns » Make the passport and visa application process more straightforward South-South Labor Migration Flows Jordan Egypt Kuwait Saudi Arabia Qatar U .A. E Pakistan India...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... (Scott 1982) An information system (IS) is a triple (A, C, b) where A is a countable set of "atoms," C i s a class of finite subsets of A, and t- is a binary relation between subsets of A and elements ... entry, at each template the strict information is added, and then all consistent defaults are applied The list of templates that the lexical entry inherits from is generated by a topological sort ... 1980 A logic for default reasoning Artificial Intelligence 13:81-132 Russell, Graham; Ballim, Afzal; Carroll, John; and Warwick-Armstrong, Susan 1992 A practical approach to multiple default...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20

... guarantees are guarantees granted by third parties in favor of borrowers Data are drawn from Statistical Return Loans and Bad Loans Data are drawn from Statistical Return Average Loan Life This ... that lenders ask for guarantees when borrowers are more risky and, thus, interest rates are higher Data and summary statistics This paper uses aggregated and individual Italian bank and firm data ... 4.6 Table REGRESSION ANALYSIS [1] DATA AT BANK LEVEL Random Effects Estimates Dependent Variable: Spread (Interest Rate – Overnight Rate) EXPLANATORY VARIABLES Bad loans/loans Collateral/loans...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... of this report Team Members: Anuradha Sanghavi Arun Swaminathan Avinash Kalia H.Sadhak Gautam Mehra Harsh Bisht Jesal Lakdawala Malvika Singh Nehal D Sampat Nidhi Jain Sneha Bhagat Trisha Chatterji ... tax on the advisory fee is a part of the overall cap This could be over and above the capped costs • A case can be made for allowing AMCs to charge differential expenses to a retail investor and ... Vivek Prasad Leader – Asset Management Tel: +91 22 66891155 Email: gautam.mehra@in.pwc.com Avinash Kalia Associate Director Tel: +91 22 66691401 Email: avinash.kalia@in.pwc.com pwc.com/india This...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20

... Linguistic Motivation for D CCG is only partially associative Here, we discuss several situations which require greater associativity and thus cannot be given an adequate analysis with CCG as standardly ... Hockenmaier and Mark Steedman 2002 Generative Models for Statistical Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar In Proceedings of ACL 40, pages 335–342, Philadelpha, PA Pauline Jacobson 1990 Raising ... To Appear) These rules—especially the B rules—allow derivations to be partially associative: given appropriate type assignments, a string ABC can be analyzed as either A( BC) or (AB)C This associativity...

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