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Work on dynamic capabilities is proving to be a fruitful direction in understanding the nature of the firm. An evaluation of this literature makes the foundational contributions of Cyert and March (1963) and Nelson and Winter (1982) abundantly clear. Cyert and March redefined firms as heterogeneous organizations possessing standard operating procedures that are difficult to codify, arguing that...

The demonstration by Nelson and Mayer (1949) of an antibody in syphilitic sera that immobilizes virulent Treponema pallidum in the presence of complement in vitro led to the development (Nelson and Mayer, 1949; Nelson and Diesendruck, 1951) of a T. pallidum immobilization (TPI) test for use in the case of individuals who might repeatedly give a positive reaction to other tests for syphilis but ...

A Monte Carlo simulation for bioprospecting the endemic New Zealand terrestrial flora for 1 antibiotic drug leads 2 Eric J Buenz 3 Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology, Nelson, New Zealand 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Correspondence to: 19 20 Eric J Buenz 21 Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology 22 322 Hardy Street 23 Nelson, 7120 24 New Zealand 25 26 Email: Eric.Buenz@nmit...

In the context of combinations of theories with disjoint signatures, we classify the component theories according to the decidability of constraint satisfiability problems in arbitrary and in infinite models, respectively. We exhibit a theory T1 such that satisfiability is decidable, but satisfiability in infinite models is undecidable. It follows that satisfiability in T1 ∪ T2 is undecidable, ...