The paper investigates the role of labour flows in determining the growth of industrial clusters (defined as a combination of industries and spatial areas). Within an ecological approach the role of inter and intra industry as well as of inter and intra cluster interactions is theoretically modelled and empirically tested. This approach is enriched with other economic perspectives in order to t...

Self-dealing in securities issuance can be characterized by an issuing manager who gains at the expense of the other existing stakeholders in the issue. The current system of public securities issuance for U.S. states potentially allows for conflict of interest through campaign contributions that benefit issuing officials. This paper shows that selecting a contributing underwriter through negot...

PURPOSE To quantify the extent of visual function losses in patients with North Carolina Macular Dystrophy (NCMD) and to demonstrate the importance of accounting for eccentric fixation when making comparisons with normal data. METHODS Five patients with NCMD who were from a single family were examined. Multifocal electroretinograms (mfERGs) and psychophysical assessments of acuity and luminan...

(eds.) ReefBase: A global database oncoral reefs and their resources. ICLARM,Manila.

Simulation has been utilized in the planning and development of almost all sectors of the transportation field. The practicing transportation community primarily relies on simulation packages, as opposed to “ground up” simulation development. Unfortunately, the use of these simulation packages has several disadvantages, most notably the “black box” phenomenon and reduced modeling flexibility. T...

In this paper we set out to accomplish several goals. Primarily, we seek to re-interpret Guy Debord’s (1967) work The Society of the Spectacle in light of modern-day schooling, principally within North America (although we recognize the global connectivity inherent in any current discussion of formal education). In addition, we aim to utilize Debord’s conceptualizations as a series of means and...

A recent analysis of the He abundance determined from observations of extragalactic HII regions indicates a significantly greater uncertainty for the He mass fraction. The derived value is now in line with predictions from big bang nucleosynthesis when the baryon density determined by WMAP is assumed. Based on this new analysis of He, we derive constraints on a host of particle properties which...

Founding harmonic analysis on classical simple complex groups, I.M. Gelfand and M.A. Naimark in their classical book [GN] posed three basic questions: unitary duals, characters of irreducible unitary representations and Plancherel measures. In the case of reductive p-adic groups, the only series of reductive groups where unitary duals are known are general linear groups. In this paper we reduce...

Thai stock brokers issue daily stock news for their customers. One broker labels these news with plus, minus and zero sign to indicate the type of recommendation. This paper proposed to classify Thai stock news by extracting important texts from the news. The extracted text is in a form of a ‘wordpair’. Three wordpair sets, manual wordpairs extraction (ME), manual wordpairs addition (MA), and a...