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For several decades, context effects in picture naming and word reading have been extensively investigated. However, researchers have found no agreement on the explanation of the effects. Whereas it has long been assumed that several types of effect reflect competition in word selection (e.g., Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999), recently it has been argued that these effects reflect the exclusion ...

The TRIPS Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO) mandated the introduction of protection of intellectual property rights, notably patents, for pharmaceutical products. While the implications for the access to medicines contained in the terms of this Agreement raised significant concerns, a recent new wave of free trade agreements, negotiated outside the WTO, requires even higher levels...

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We use a standard repeated game framework and assume imperfect competition to examine how the feasibility of trade agreements is affected by the presence of asymmetries in market size, wage levels and labor productivities. The results regarding asymmetries in market size are consistent with the traditional literature: the country with the larger market is more likely to defect and transfers fro...

The Steering Committee decided to approach the Editors of the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics with a proposal to publish selected refereed papers from the conference. We were delighted when the proposal was accepted, and the Australasian Journal of Combinatorics joined other journals such as Advances in Applied Mathematics, Annals of Combinatorics, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, Jou...

Over the past four decades, Intellectual Property (IP) has been one of main controversies US-China trade relations. But current war contains a new focus – technology transfer. This article adopts socio-legal and economic approach to examine tensions between these two countries why China became an Information Technology (IT) powerhouse. It first provides overview IP transfer rules under Phase On...

Males among many species, including humans, evaluate cues of sperm competition risk and adjust accordingly their sperm competition tactics. The number of potential sexual rivals can serve as an index of sperm competition risk. Therefore, men may adjust their in-pair copulatory interest in accordance with the presence of sexual rivals. Using self-reports from 45 married men, we test the hypothes...