This paper exposes some common misinterpretations of the "new trade theory". First, the view that high scale economies give rise to high levels of intra-industry trade is challenged. It is shown that the monopolistic-competition trade model predicts a negative relationship between internal scale economies and intraindustry trade. Second, in spite of a common perception that the "new" theory exp...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 cerebral amyloid angiopathy (caa) is the most common cause of lobar intracerebral hemorrhage. repeated bleeding may be presented with vascular dementia. we have reported a 68-year-old normotensive demented patient with probable caa presented with hemiparesia, headache and vomiting. according to the experience of this case,...

background: the household transmission of hepatitis b virus (hbv) is a major health problem. high incidence of hbv infection is observed within the household contacts of hbv carriers. we aimed to evaluate serological markers of hepatitis b infection among family members of hbv carriers in arak, central iran. methods: data were collected from the 100 chronic hbv carriers (subjects with positive ...

HIGH PROFILE Tzu-Der Chuang, Yi-Hau Chen, Chen-Han Tsai, Yu-Jen Chen, and Liang-Gee Chen DSP/IC Design Lab., Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Email: {peterchuang, ttchen, phenom, yjchen, lgchen}@video.ee.ntu.edu.tw ABSTRACT In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage intra prediction algorithm and hardware architecture that can support H....

BACKGROUND The management of distal radial fractures is guided by the interpretation of radiographic findings. The aim of this investigation was to determine the intra- and inter-observer reliability of eight traditionally reported anatomic radiographic parameters in adults with an acute distal radius fracture. METHODS Five observers participated. All were routinely involved in making treatme...

Power is a big problem in data centers and a significant fraction of this power is consumed by the storage system. Server storage systems use a large number of disks to achieve high performance, which increases their power consumption. In this thesis, we explore an architecture that can significantly reduce the power consumed by the storage system via intra-disk parallelism, wherein disk drives...

Our objective was to determine how 8% weight loss influences subcutaneous, intra-abdominal, and liver fat (LFAT), as well as features of insulin resistance, in obese women with high versus low LFAT. A total of 23 women with previous gestational diabetes were divided into groups of high (9.4 +/- 1.4%) and low (3.3 +/- 0.4%) LFAT based on their median LFAT (5%) measured with proton spectroscopy. ...

In this work, a performance evaluation of AVC Intra and JPEG2000 in terms of rate-distortion performance is conducted. A set of High Definition sequences with different spatial resolutions is used for this purpose. Results obtained show quite competitive performance between two coding approaches, while in some cases, AVC Intra, in its High Profile, outperforms JPEG2000.