The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will lower barriers to trade and investment across the continent. This paper presents predictions of the effects of NAFTA on Mexico’s imports of intermediate wood products, scrap and waste paper, pulp, and newsprint from the United States and Canada. Predictions were made with a partial equilibrium model. Model development involved estimating (i) ...

The quality and stability of sibling relationships during adulthood were assessed by comparing TAT themes of sibling affiliation, conflict, and separation at the period of active child-rearing (CR) and the empty nest (EN). Thirty men and thirty women, divided equally between the two life stages, were randomly selected from a pool of individuals who had a same-sex, closely-spaced sibling. The Si...

Long-term memory formation is believed to involve alterations of synaptic efficacy. It has been shown that GluR1-containing AMPA receptors are inserted into synapses following stimuli leading to plasticity and that GluR2/GluR3-containing receptors replace existing synaptic AMPA receptors continuously and may act to maintain synaptic efficacy. Maintaining GluR2/GluR3 receptors level in synapse r...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test a scale for parent and child, evaluating theoretical and clinical parameters relevant to children with encopresis. Encopretic children were hypothesized to have more bowel-specific, but not more generic, psychological problems, as compared with nonsymptomatic control children. In addition, mothers were also believed to be more discerning than children. METHODS Th...

The authors draw attention to the issue of gender differences in features subjective experience happiness and unhappiness. article describes results a study conducted with clients psychologists who report problems related destructive interpersonal relationships consider themselves deeply unhappy life. purpose is reveal specificity frustration subjects’ life needs underlying deep unhappiness the...

This study aims to evaluate the teaching competence of Bahasa Indonesia teachers using APKG-2 evaluation tool. research is classified as a case with limited data sources, namely 4 (four) learning video shows on Youtube channel. In line that, this also called ex post facto descriptive approach. As study, at collection stage researcher used instrument. After was collected, processed and analyzed ...

The research was a development model in teaching of creative writing short story based siri’na pace. The purpose of this study was developing and producing the form of book learning model and the devices. The method used in this research was the development of Plomp model. The results of this study was the prototype of creative writing model or Menulis Kreatif Cerpen called MKC-1 siri’na pace (...