EVEN though social scientists began to discuss the wonders and pitfalls of Italy’s small-scale capitalism only in the late 1970s, the development of specialized clusters of firms constituted one of the basic traits of the country’s heterogeneous economic “miracle” of the 1950s and 1960s, and some of these industrial and artisanal experiences dated back decades and occasionally even centuries. B...

ivision of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida; Division of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, niversity of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky; Department of Surgery, Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical enter, Boston, Massachussetts; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina; Starr-Wood Cardiac Group of ortland, PC, Portland, Oregon...

The pomological properties and nutritional values of walnuts vary according to the cultivars and ecological conditions. This study aims to determine some pomological properties and fatty acid compositions of some domestic ('Bilecik', 'Maraş 12', 'Maraş 18', 'Şebin', 'Şen1', 'Şen 2') and foreign walnut cultivars (‘Chandler', 'Fernette', 'Fernor', 'Howard', 'Pedro', 'Serr') grown in Bursa (northw...

In vitro micropropagation is already a current multiplication tool for walnut self-rooted cultivars and rootstocks, but grafting still performed in the field or greenhouses, mainly using seedlings as rootstocks. The present work describes new approach to obtain clonal walnut-grafted plants, involving shoot production of ‘Paradox’ (Juglans hindsi × Juglans regia) cl. ’Vlach’, be used rootstock, ...

Network technologies, modern organizational and marketing functions have transformed the way businesses operate nowadays and consequently have an effect on all sectors of the economy. Contemporary firms become members of the Internet society since the profits are high and innovative wireless broadband technologies allow to serve customers globally 24/7 while the relative cost keeps lessening (A...

Spectral analysis has been applied to virtually all of the world's long tide records in a search for a signal at the frequency of the Chandler wobble. In Northern Europe the amplitudes are two to ten times greater than equilibrium. Hints of a pole tide are observed at a few other stations, but at most locations the tide does not stand out above the noise continuum. A host of theoretical explana...

In 1957, Chandler Davis proved that unitarily invariant convex functions on the space of hermitian matrices are precisely those which are convex and symmetrically invariant on the set of diagonal matrices. We give a simple perturbation theoretic proof of this result. (Davis’ argument was also very short, though based on completely different ideas). Consider an orthogonally invariant function f ...