Two emergent “green” forms of regional development are compared and contrasted in terms of a concept of sustainability that includes ecological, economic, and equity considerations. The green technopole is built around the ecological modernization of existing industries or the development of new environmentally oriented industries, and green localism is based on production for the regional econ...

This study examines the relationship between manifest conflict and marketing performance via the international joint venture (IJV) market entry mode in Thailand. The primary data for the study were collected from a self-administered mail survey of 1,047 Thai-Foreign IJVs in Thailand. The criteria for inclusion in the sample was that no joint venture partner could have less than 20 percent equit...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to identify occupations and industries with increased incidence of thyroid cancer in Swedish workers. METHOD Standardized incidence ratios were computed for each job and industry for the period 1971-1989 through record-linkage with the Swedish National Cancer and Death Registers. Age-, period-, geographically adjusted relative risks were calculated us...

Polymerase chain reaction-enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (PCR-ELISA) is an immunodetection method that can quantify PCR product directly after immobilization of biotinylated DNA on a microplate. This method, which detects nucleic acid instead of protein, is a much more sensitive method compared to conventional PCR method, with shorter analytical time and lower detection limit. Its high speci...

The political influence of specific interest groups can be revealed using a "Political Preference Function" approach. Previous empirical studies have clearly shown that the strong promotion of agriculture in industrialized countries is due to the fact that farmers are able to exert greater political pressure than consumers and taxpayers. Extending the scope of investigation, this paper analyzes...

PRECON S.A. is a manufacturing company devoted to produce prefabricated concrete parts for several industries as railway transportation and agricultural industries. Recently, PRECON S.A. signed a contract with RENFE, the Spanish National Railway Company, to manufacture pre-stressed concrete sleepers for the sidings of the new railways of the high speed train (AVE). The scheduling problem associ...

Proteins are an increasingly important source of new products for numerous industries, including human and animal health, diagnostics, health and beauty aids, agricultural products, and chemicals. Because of the functional roles of proteins in living systems, proteins represent a large fraction of all biologically active molecules and the entire spectrum of biological activities. To exploit the...

Do democracies face more or less political pressures to protect certain industries than nondemocracies? How important are a trading partner’s political institutions in overcoming timeinconsistency problems? While domestic political institutions and distributional conflicts across disparate industries have long been central to theories of international political economy, few empirical studies ex...

We propose a systematic method for creating constellations of unitary space–time signals for multiple-antenna communication links. Unitary space–time signals, which are orthonormal in time across the antennas, have been shown to be well-tailored to a Rayleigh fading channel where neither the transmitter nor the receiver knows the fading coefficients. The signals can achieve low probability of e...