Pricing-to-market (PTM) theory suggests that monopolistic firms which export adjust their destination-specific markups in reaction to exchange rate shocks. These adjustments limit changes in the price of their exports. Thus, important movements in the bilateral nominal exchange rate between two countries that trade are not necessarily fully reflected in the price of imports. Evidence in favour ...

The hippocampal formation is both a key component of the medial temporal lobe crucial for declarative memory and a main target of stress mediators (e.g., glucocorticoids and neuropeptides) and stress-related molecules (e.g., nutritional factors and cytokines). During the first weeks of life, the hippocampus significantly increases in volume (Zhang et al., 2005) and several critical developmenta...

Adaptive/Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) is the class of methods that provide online solution to optimal control problems while making use of measured information from the system and using computation in a forward in time fashion, as opposed to the backward in time procedure that is characterizing the classical Dynamic Programming approach (Bellman, 2003). These methods were initially dev...

Kim, Y. Y. (2001). Becoming intercultural: An integrative theory of communication and cross cultural adaptation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Kim, Y. Y. (2002). Adapting to an unfamiliar culture: An interdisciplinary overview. In W. B. Gudykunst & B. Mody (Eds.), Handbook of international and intercultural communication (pp. 259-273). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Khalaf, S. (1...

abu al-qasim khalaf ibn al-abbas al-zahrawi, also known as albucasis, is one of the greatest physicians and surgeons in islamic world who is best remembered for his medical encyclopedia, al-tasrif li man ajaz an-il-talif (an aid for those who lack the capacity to read big books). al-tasrif li man ajaz an-il-talif(an aid for those who lack the capacity to read big books). al-tasrifwas translated...

IntroductionThe information revolution that the world is experiencing now has caused a huge boom in media industry and patterns of consumption, production, dissemination, sharing its contents.The past two decades have witnessed very rapid development field using artificial intelligence technology various fields, including use digital to improve quality performance, accelerating impact diversify...

Nella seconda parte del Libro della condanna dello status e dell’ostentazione il ventottesimo libro sua opera principale, La rinascita delle scienze religiose – al-Ghazālī trae molta ispirazione da al-Muhāsibī, soprattutto dalla al-Ri’āya al-huqūq Allāh (L’osservanza dei diritti di Dio). Il fatto che menziona esplicitamente nome al-Muhāsibī non meno quattro volte in questa sezione testimonia la...