Multinationals are increasingly conducting R&D in countries such as India and China, where intellectual property rights (IPR) protection is still very weak. This paper examines this puzzle. The argument is that weak IPR leads to low returns to innovation and thus low prices of innovative talents. Multinational firms who possess not only the capabilities to utilize these talents, but also the in...

External Transaction Logic (ET R) is an extension of logic programming useful to reason about the behavior of agents that have to operate in a twofold environment in a transactional way: an internal knowledge base defining the agent’s internal knowledge and rules of behavior, and an external world where it executes actions and interact with other entities. Actions performed by the agent in the ...

Resting energy expenditure (REE) and components of fat-free mass (FFM) were assessed in 26 healthy nonobese adults (13 males, 13 females). Detailed body composition analyses were performed by the combined use of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), and anthropometrics. We found close correlations between REE and FFM(B...

The aim of the present study was to adapt the Preference for and Tolerance of the Intensity of ExerciseQuestionnaire (PRETIE-Q) for the Brazilian population and to perform an initial psychometric evaluation. The study consisted of two phases: I) translation and back-translation and production of a Brazilian Portuguese version of the questionnaire; and II) psychometric evaluation and construct v...

Using Polynomial Contour Fitting Internal Report R. F. Walker Signal Processing Research Centre Queensland University of Technology GPO Box 2434 Brisbane Q 4001 Australia

A new basidiomycete genus, Rhizochaete (Phanerochaetaceae, Polyporales), is described. Rhizochaete is characterized by a smooth to tuberculate, pellicular hymenophore and hyphal cords that turn red or violet in potassium hydroxide, monomitic hyphal system of simple or nodose septate hyphae, cystidia, and small, cylindrical to subglobose basidiospores. It morphologically is most similar to Phane...

Two studies examined the psychometric properties of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R; Psychol. Assessment 14 (2002) 485) in a nonclinical student sample. In Study 1, we investigated the factor structure and internal consistency of the OCI-R using a sample of 395 undergraduate students. At a second testing session 1 month later, 178 students completed the OCI-R. Test-retest reli...

In this paper we consider non-relativistic quantum mechanics on a space with an additional internal compact dimension, i.e. R 3 ⊗S 1 instead of R 3. More specifically we study potential scattering for this case and the analyticity properties of the forward scattering amplitude, T nn (K), where K 2 is the total energy and the integer n denotes the internal excitation of the incoming particle. Th...