The study tests the functional convergence hypothesis, which states that foreign firms can leapfrog their countries’ weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and agreeing to see front matter r 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. .jfineco.2004.02.001 or wishes to thank Don Lessard, Simon Johnson, Tarun Khanna, Jack Coffee, John de raig Doidge, Art Durnev, Alexander Dyck, Bob G...

in this article, the prcsigrnoid avenue to pertroclivai region is introduced and the advantage of such an approach is disusscd. ten patients were operated on by this approach. two illustrative cases are also presented.

Among the variety and diversity of pigeon houses, Multi-Tier Pigeon Houses (MTPHs) are distinguished from the functional and aesthetic point of view and are considered as a specific local architectural sights of Lenjanat. However, few studies have been conducted to study this type of pigeon house and these constructs have remained unknown. In this study we have conducted library and field studi...

J.-M. Le Goff CERN, Geneva, Switzerland G. Chevenier1 Institut fur Teilchenphysik, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, Switzerland A Bazan, T. Le Flour, S. Lieunard, S. Murray, J.-P.Vialle LAPP, IN2P3, Annecy-le-Vieux, France N. Baker, F. Estrella1, Z. Kovacs1 R. McClatchey1 Dept. of Computing, Univ. West of England, Frenchay, Bristol BS16 1QY UK G. Organtini Universita di Roma e Sezi...

The problem considered is how to model perception and identify behavioral patterns of objects changing over time in complex dynamical systems. An approach to solving this problem has been found in the context of rough set theory and methods. Rough set theory introduced by Zdzisław Pawlak during the early 1980s provides the foundation for the construction of classifiers, relative to what are kno...

the goal of medicine is to prevent harm as hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. has this fact been taken into account in developing medical education curricula in asia? frequency of diseases in asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  it is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to ...

conclusions although spinopelvic fracture dislocation injuries are severe high-energy entities, in cases with traumatic spondylolytic spondylolisthesis due to widening of the vertebral canal, neurologic deficit may not be seen at all. case presentation we described a 16-year-old girl with extremely severe axial trauma to the lumbosacral spine who presented with fracture dislocation of the lumbo...

this study is written following the analysis of institutional collaboration in the urban regions. based on this, and with the goal of facilitating the cooperation as one of the elements of governing patterns in the theories of new regionalism this study aims to analyze the governmental and public institutions’ commitment (as the main involving organizations for the regional management matters i...

a.sacharovi, which is one of the main malaria vectors of the palearchic region, is resistant to ddt in greece (1949), lebanon (1954), turkey (1959), syria and the u.s.s.r. (1972).the first record of a. sacharovi resistance to ddt in iran was given in 1959 from the kazeroon area, followed by izeh (1969) and meshkin-shahr (1970).this study (1973) urgently advises speedy measures to eliminate the ...