This paper analyzes the theoretical and empirical relationship between intraindustry trade flows (IIT) in manufactures and technical change for the Colombian manufacturing industry during 1970-1995 period. A general estimating equation for sources of change of the equilibrium number of varieties, in which TFP growth is one of its components, is derived from the basic model of trade in different...

The HDL Code Generation step in MATLAB generates HDL code from the fixed-point Matlab code. One can generate either VHDL or Verilog code that implements the Matlab design. In addition to generating synthesizable HDL code, HDL CoderTM also generates various reports, including a traceability report that helps to navigate between the Matlab code and the generated HDL code. It also shows resource u...

Correspondence to: Dr Hadi Manji, The Mortimer Market Clinic, Capper Street, off Tottenham Court Road, London NW1, UK; [email protected] _________________________ S ince the onset of the AIDS pandemic in 1981, infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has spread exponentially throughout the world with currently an estimated 40 million adults and children affected. Worldwide ...

We present information theoretic search strategies for single and multirobot teams to localize the source of a chemical spill in turbulent flows. In this work, robots rely on sporadic and intermittent sensor readings to synthesize information maximizing exploration strategies. Using the spatial distribution of the sensor readings, robots construct a belief distribution for the source location. ...

Using a firm level dataset from four regions of Russia covering 1996/97, an investigation was carried out into how the surplus created within the firm is divided between profits and wages. An efficient bargaining framework based on the work of Svejnar (1986) is employed which takes into account the alternative wage or outside option available to employees in the firm as well as the value added ...

1 Research Laboratory on Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology , M’Sila University, 28000, Algeria, 2 Research Laboratory on the Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences Engineering, Batna University, Rue Chahid M El Hadi Boukhlouf, Batna – Algeria ([email protected]) Abstract First of all, this paper discusses the use of a novel approach optimization procedure to determine the...

Shen, Hong, Guojiang Huang, Mohammed Hadi, Patrick Choy, Manna Zhang, Gerald Y. Minuk, Yongping Chen, and Yuewen Gong. Transforming growth factor1 downregulation of Smad1 gene expression in rat hepatic stellate cells. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 285: G539–G546, 2003. First published June 4, 2003; 10.1152/ajpgi.00436.2002.—Smads are intracellular signaling molecules of the transformi...

Strategic planning for information systems remains as one of the top concerns and continues to be a critical issue for many chief information officers and their organisations. Also, a comprehensive review of the recent information systems planning literature reveals that selecting a proper methodology used in developing an information systems plan is one of the success factors related to the su...

Programme Committee A. Al-Dubai, Napier University, UK Hamid R. Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia, USA Frank Ball, Bournemouth University, UK Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Jeremy Bradley, Imperial College London, UK Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA Karim Djemame, University of Leeds, UK Jose Gil, Motorola, UK Wei Guo, Nokia Rese...