Scholars have pointed to ethnic and other social divisions as a leading cause of economic underdevelopment, due in part to their adverse effects on public good provision and collective action. We investigate this issue in post-war Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest countries. To address concerns over endogenous local ethnic composition, and in an advance over most existing empirical work,...

line n-78-14 with the pedigree of sha4/chil cm91099-25y-om-3n-1y-oyz-o10m-oy-3m-o10 was obtained from cimmyt, mexico in 1996 through high rainfall wheat screening nursery. preliminary evaluation of the genotypes in international nursery in gorgan and sari research stations during 1996-97 cropping season, resulted in selection of this line as one of the most high yielding genotypes. selected lin...

In this paper, we present a methodology to explore and evaluate the crosstalk noise and the profile of its variations, and the delay of interconnects through investigation of two groups of interconnect structures in nano scale VLSI circuits. The interconnect structures in the first group are considered to be partially coupled identical lines. In this case, by choosing proper values for differen...

Public health care in Canada (“medicare”) is based on five principles, and its realization balances precariously on the method by which this public service is provided.1 At one end of the delivery spectrum, medicare could be a fully decommodified public service similar to the public education system; at the other end, public health care insurance could exist alongside the private, for-profit de...

Background: Usually, chemoradiotherapy can be used for the treatment of locally advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) before surgery. On the other hand, some studies have shown that fractional radiation of tumor cells leads to chemoresistance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the chemoresistance of radioresistant sub-line (RR sub-line).Methods: This study was done in Hamadan University of...