Abstract This paper explores the application of EU Competition Law to exploitation human genome editing technology. Holders key patents in sector have applied different methods for disseminating technology, such as forms licensing agreement and patent pools. It is found that competition rules are ill-suited assess some arrangements applied, which give rise legal uncertainty. Accordingly, holder...

This paper investigates the large and unexpected increase in cigarette prices that followed the 1997 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). We integrate key features of rational addiction theory into a discrete-choice model of the demand for a differentiated product. We find that, following the MSA, firms set prices on a more elastic region of their demand curves. Using these estimates, we predict ...

1 The proposal In many languages, children around the age of 2 make certain systematic errors in their verbal forms. They produce both non-finite root forms (NRFs) and finite forms in contexts where finite forms are required in the adult language. This is often referred to as the “optional infinitive (OI) stage” (Wexler 1994, 1998). For example, young children acquiring French as their native l...

When microbial strains compete for the same limiting nutrient in continuous culture, resource-based competition theory predicts that only one strain will survive and all others will die out. The surviving strain expected from theory will be the one with the smallest subsistence or "break-even" concentration of the limiting resource, a concentration defined by the J parameter. This prediction ha...

The aim of this research was to determine the order and importance of particular fitness status variables impact on success in taekwondo according to opinions of top taekwondo instructors (experts). Partial objectives included analysis of metric characteristics of the measuring instrument, and determining differences between two disciplines (sparring and technical discipline of patterns) and tw...

We investigated the neural basis of inhibitory control during lexical selection. Participants overtly named pictures while response times (RTs) and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded. The difficulty of lexical selection was manipulated by using object and action pictures with high name agreement (few response candidates) versus low name agreement (many response candidates). To ...

The method of high-resolution electrophoresis was employed to compare the relative amounts of enzyme produced by the Adh(1) (F) and Adh(1) (S) alleles in heterozygotes at different stages of development. The results are in complete agreement with those obtained from enzymatic analyses and support the competition hypothesis for the regulation of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene.