Despite the importance of informal modes learning and innovation for developing countries, there is little empirical evidence on their role in firm performance. This paper examines effect formal followed by small large firms overall performance capital goods industry. Following wider literature national systems, we categorise as Science, Technology Innovation (STI) Doing, Using Interacting (DUI...

As part of their youth-alcohol program, the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs requested a special study to focus on the development of Youth-DUI countermeasures. By way of definition, the word alcohol will be used in a generic way to include DUI caused by both alcohol and/or drugs. Alcohol is, by far, the drug of choice throughout the population, but particularly with those w...

Distinct gender-associated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages (i.e., lineages which are transmitted either through males or through females) have been demonstrated in two families of bivalves, the Mytilidae (marine mussels) and the Unionidae (freshwater mussels), which have been separated for more than 400 Myr. The mode of transmission of these M (for male-transmitted) and F (for female-transmi...

The primary objective of this paper is to study the driving patterns of the Tennessee DUI drivers, in order to understand alcohol-related crashes and fatalities in Tennessee. Data were obtained from the Tennessee Department of Highway Safety. Driving records were analyzed for drivers who received a citation for a driving violation in 1999, since they received their driving licenses. Out of a to...

Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI) is one of the most striking exceptions to the common rule of standard maternal inheritance of metazoan mitochondria. In DUI, two mitochondrial genomes are present, showing different transmission routes, one through eggs (F-type) and the other through sperm (M-type). In this paper, we report results from a multiplex real-time quantitative polymerase chain rea...

BACKGROUND It is principally the area of enforcement that offers the greatest opportunity for reducing alcohol-impaired driving in the near future. How much of a reduction in drinking and driving would be achieved by how much improvement in enforcement intensity? METHODS We developed logistic regression models to explore how enforcement intensity (6 different measures) related to the prevalen...

Despite its functional conservation, the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) presents strikingly different features among eukaryotes, such as size, rearrangements, and amount of intergenic regions. Nonadaptive processes such as random genetic drift and mutation rate play a fundamental role in shaping mtDNA: the mitochondrial bottleneck and the number of germ line replications are critical factors, and...

PURPOSE : This is a study of individuals entering treatment who had been arrested for DUI in the past year or who entered treatment while on probation for DUI to determine their levels of impairment and the factors that predict treatment completion and abstinence at follow-up. METHODS : Secondary data analysis was performed on an administrative dataset of 29,566 adult Texans who entered publi...

Driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol and/or illegal drugs is an important problem by any measure. On average, associated crashes kill someone in the United States every 40 minutes [1]. Various control strategies have been tried, including punitive sanctions; in the United States, DUI accounts for 1.4 million arrests annually [2], 40 000 inmates in jail [3] and another 32 000 in prison [...

• Innovation systems influence SME innovation. Types of technological innovation moderate SMEs modes. Returns from STI are different across systems. Catching-up countries primarily show DUI modes and process limited returns At the intersection systems, this study investigates characteristics in catching-up European (Southern, Central Eastern European) compare it with selected among most advance...