The paper starts with a summary of the way the new theories of international trade have incorporated the role of multinational companies (MNCs) in the location of production. The main, specific assumptions used to incorporate MNCs’ activities relate to joint inputs at the company’s level combined with assumptions regarding costs at the plant level and spatial transaction costs. It is claimed th...

This chapter focuses on institutional investors in the German financial markets. Institutional investors are specialized financial intermediaries who collect and manage funds on behalf of small investors toward specific objectives in terms of risk, return and maturity. The major types of institutional investors in Germany are insurance companies and investment funds. We will examine the nature ...

Parkinson`s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer`s disease. It is a chronic and progressive disease, and mostly afflicts elderlies. PD starts with sudden onsets and the exact cause of the disease is still unknown, however there are some early symptoms that can help us to diagnose the disease and ameliorate its effects. PD is a multi-factorial disease...

Yamamoto M, Reeve JR, Jr, Green GM. Supramaximal CCK-58 does not induce pancreatitis in the rat: role of pancreatic water secretion. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 292: G964–G974, 2007. First published January 4, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00338.2004.—In contrast to supramaximal CCK-8 or caerulein, acute or prolonged supraphysiological levels of endogenous CCK-58 do not cause pancreatitis...

The main objective of this work is to develop a logic called IAL (Intentional Agency Logic) in which we can reason about mental states of agents, action occurrences, and agentive and group powers. IAL will be exploited for a formal analysis of different forms of power such as an agent i’s power of achieving a certain result and an agent i’s power over another agent j (alias social power).