BACKGROUND Although the written component of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)internal medicine examination is important for obtaining licensure and certification as a specialist, no methods exist to predict a candidate's performance on the examination. METHOD We obtained data from 5 Canadian universities from 1988 to 1998 in order to compare raw scores from the A...

GREGORY R TINTINGER*, VAN DER MERWE JJ*, FICKL H°, RHEEDER P*, FELDMAN C, ANDERSON R° *Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa; °Medical Research Council Unit for Inflammation and Immunity, Department of Immunology, University of Pretoria, and Tshwane Academic Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Pretoria, South Africa; an...

The paper offers a straightforward method for estimating R&D portfolios that maximize shareholders’ utility. R&D portfolios are generally associated with high returns and high risks. As such, an impressive body of literature has highlighted the risks linked with R&D portfolio allocations. Nevertheless, the role of financing strategies in portfolio allocation has been neglected, and this provide...

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of overseas R&D on firm productivity. In particular, we further consider the moderating effect of internal technological capability. To provide more empirical evidence, this analysis takes advantage of a longitudinal dataset covering the 2009-2013 period and the system-GMM approach is employed in the empirical analysis to control for the pro...

C. Tonon, D. N. Manners, C. Testa, E. Malucelli, P. Parchi, R. Rinaldi, R. De Giorgio, C. Casali, M. Hirano, G. Plazzi, V. Carelli, B. Barbiroli, and R. Lodi MR Spectroscopy Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Aging and Nephrology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Italy, Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Bologna, Neurology Unit, Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna,...

nowadays, agricultural r&d; provides new and developed technologies to create modern agricultural producing methods. this paper investigates the relationship between tfp, domestic agricultural r&d;, and foreign agricultural r&d; during 1979 – 2009 by using almon lag models. the results indicate that agricultural researches (both domestic and foreign r&d;) have positive and significant impact on...

Empirical research on complementarity between organizational design decisions has traditionally focused on the question of existence of complementarity. In this paper we take a broader approach to the issue, combining a “productivity” and an “adoption” approach, while including a search for contextual variables in the firm’s strategy that affect complementarity. Analysis of contextual variables...

Doppler sonography of 29 extracranial carotid arteries was performed twice within three days or less. Angiography revealed stenoses with from 10 to 95% diameter reduction in 25 internal carotid arteries whereas four vessels were found to be normal. The systolic peak frequency of the internal carotid artery read from the Doppler spectrum (n = 29) could be reproduced very well. This was shown by ...

The ultrasonic velocity, density and viscosity of some Schiff bases of 4-amino benzoic acid  were measured in 1,4-dioxane and dimethylformamide at 308.15 K. Various acoustical properties such as isentropic compressibility (ks), Rao’s molar sound function (Rm), the Van der Waals constant (b), molar compressibility (W), inter molecular free len...

Tax reforms in the US in the mid-1980s reduced the relative tax cost of equity and internal finance to debt by 30%, from a large reduction in the statutory rate. This paper finds evidence that for innovative firms this lead to a decrease in ordinary investment and an increase in innovative investment, while controlling for other variation in the prices of ordinary and R&D investment. This sugge...