... human beings given the high population level inthe region In spite ofthe magnitude of importance of studying and determining the mechanisms between income and the environment in Asia, there have ... with the EKC model due to the limitations ofthe theory and the assumptions incorporated in it In terms ofthe shape ofthe EKC, debates and further studies have shown other variations from the inverted-U ... implications of having the two most populous cities ofthe world inAsiathe exponential increase in pollution levels given the magnitude of economic activity inthe area, as well as the alarming damage...
... bringing in consultants Telemedicine could have the added benefit of stemming the ‘brain drain’ of qualified medical professionals flowing out ofthe developing world 22 Lending its weight to the ... regulation in many countries B The Origin ofthe GATS Central to an understanding ofthe creation ofthe General Agreement on Tradein Services (GATS) in international trade is a brief review ofthe ... CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I: TELEMEDICINE AND INTERNATIONAL FREE TRADE 15 A B C 15 17 21 22 23 The Liberalisation oftheTradein Telemedicine Services The Origin ofthe GATS An Overview of the...
... for Asia Then there is the task of attracting and retaining the best talent from being lured away by competitors lurking inAsia s own backyard and beyond In many parts ofAsia and in many industry ... hiring requirements for the Asian businesses They now lack the wide cultural experience and local market insights The huge geographical span of Asia, covering the length and breadth ofthe northern ... Hiring Buzz The buzz words inAsia today are workforce hiring Amid rapid economic growth inAsia and a declining U.S economy, there are positive sentiments inAsia on increased hiring, and investment...
... stars ofthe innovation world Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong all rank inthe top 25 ofthe 2014 Global Innovation Index1 Yet India barely squeaks into the top half ofthe ranking of ... is lacking inthe offline world Chinese innovators benefit from trial and error on a massive scale In effect, in China today we are seeing the consumer finally taking centre stage, and Chinese ... supports the commercialisation of grassroots innovation Trying to generalise about innovation inAsia puts one in mind ofthe five blind men attempting to describe an elephant The man who touched the...
... was used to test the research hypotheses 1.5 The structure ofthe research The thesis is organized in five chapters Chapter one presents the introduction ofthe thesis including research background, ... strengthens the competitive capability of firms Moreover, according to a study of Anderson et al (1976), one ofthe highestranking determinant factors of selecting a bank inthe USA is the reputation ... survey has the advantage of immediate retrieval and capturing of customers' experiences with the participating banks After explaining the purpose ofthe survey and obtaining consent, the respondents...
... made gains in both the finance/banking industries and inthe defence-related public sector Whereas some 125 000 women worked in finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased to ... 450 000 by 1995The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men declined from 225 000 to 200 000, while the number of women rose ... worked inthe communications sector Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen inthe wholesale and retail trade...
... rivalling Egypt’s and a marked continuity inthe physical composition of its people, who inherited the Nilotic culture of fishing, pottery-making, grain-collecting, and early herding ofthe high-rainfall ... create their distinctive civilisation, a point they recognised by the special status they often gave to ironworkers, either associating them with the origins of political leadership or fearing them ... the history of a continent The earliest known metallurgy in Africa was the use of natural copper in Egypt inthe late fifth millennium bc, followed by smelting of copper ore inthe first half of...
... events inthe cell were the direct result ofthe minimization of energy due to tight thermodynamic coupling, then it would make no sense to speak of their occurring on the basis of information Since ... 10, 2004 TheEmergenceof Biological Value 1:32 221 One ofthe most interesting lines of contemporary research that holds some promise of providing the missing piece ofthe puzzle is the investigation ... that this body of theory provides a great deal of insight into the internal operation of biological systems as well But there remains a glaring problem Inthe case ofthe machine, we decide what...
... reported inthe NSFG and live births registered on birth certificates inthe years 1991 94 In each individual calendar year and for the sum ofthe years 1991 94, the NSFG estimate ofthe number of births ... done taking the sampling design into account Nonsampling errors were minimized by stringent quality-control procedures that included thorough interviewer training, checking the consistency of answers ... status provided by the U.S Bureau ofthe Census The 10,847 women inthe NSFG represent the 60.2 million women inthe civilian noninstitutional population ofthe United States in1995 Thus, on average,...
... exploits in crossing the Alps and the military successes inthe center of Roman territory, culminating inthe crushing defeat of Rome's armies at Cannae in 216 B.C., have remained the stuff of human ... side ofthe flow chart depicted in Figure 2.5 Inthe Berlin framework, human wisdom is conceived of as excellence in mind and virtue The interaction ofthe operations of mind with influences of ... souls, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts Before trying to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended to the utmost their knowledge Such investigation of knowledge lay inthe investigation...
... principles of public and political equity, which were unknown to the other parts ofthe world.”5 Inthe eyes of many historians, the final realization ofthe idea of Europe came at the end ofthe ... originally thought, they would in turn lead the financial markets to require even higher interest rates to contin- 18 The Re -Emergence of Europe ue financing these countries, thereby increasing the ... creates a “hole” inthe assets ofthe banks holding their bonds As governments step in to fill these holes with public funding, their debt increases and the sustainability of their finances deteriorates...
... 1 Introduction At the end ofthe nineteenth century, inthe era ofthe second industrial revolution, falling working hours, rising disposable income, increasing urbanisation, rapidly expanding ... surfaces: inthe US cinema is a luxury, with expenditure rising faster than income, in Europe cinema is inferior Within Europe, cinema was most inferior in Britain A decline inthe luxuriousness of ... analysing the shape ofthe growth pattern ofthe quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema The time ofthe take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the...
... pressures they put on regulators in terms of how they conducted their own operations, and second for the pressures they put on the regulators in their dealings with business In terms of their own ... furthered the prominence of risk discourses and the promotion of riskbased thinking in government However, theemergenceof ideas about risk inthe regulatory arena is more one of drift than domination ... running the administration as a business and increasing the accountability ofthe administration to both government and the people (Hood and Jones, 1996; Power, 1997) In Britain this has included...
... Within HLFO, the extent of integration of conceptual and applied engineering concerns was evident inthe structuring of technical information reports Engineering analyses were indicative ofthe ... In this light, the study points to the usefulness of examining some ofthe conditioning forces affecting the ultimate perceived impact of a novel accounting system within an organisation and of ... original level inthe face ofthe emerging competitive threat HLFO started to focus on the emerging market and financial information needs of design engineers In September 1995, HLFO initiated the...
... from the "others," and the "others" accumulate inthe cities; they accumulate around the margins; they accumulate in Wales and in Scotland; they accumulate inthetrade unions It's the attempt of ... marginal kind of existence there Nevertheless, Leavis saw himself committed to the project of tending the health ofthe language and the national culture, of nurturing the refined sensibilities of ... careers; they destroy people's reading lists; they cut through the canon; they fire cannons at one another rather than establishing them They are a series of interruptions inthe peaceful life of the...
... argument ofthe following chapters The rst concerns the way in which new religions emerge within the monotheistic tradition One ofthe main themes inthe sociology of religion, following on from the ... the exemplary practice ofthe Prophet, the theory that the sunna (along with the Koran) was the source ofthe law, and the role ofthe scholars in elaborating the law and relating it to its theoretical ... disintegration ofthe kinship structure. More recently the continuing inuence ofthe evolutionary theory and attempts to link it with thetrade route theory can be seen inthe article of Walter Dostal (1991) ...
... theories ofthe interconnections of all living things (e.g Bradley’s theory of internal relations) around the turn ofthe century, as well as the speculations ofthe British Emergentists inthe ... concerning the origin of mind, to whom we turn in a moment Arguably, the philosopher who should count as the great modern advocate ofemergence theory is Hegel In place ofthe notion of static being ... heyday ofthe reductionist period, midway between the British Emergentists ofthe 1920s and the rebirth oftheemergence movement inthe 1990s, Michael Polanyi was a sort of lone voice crying in the...
... religion in favour of science in England The simultaneous combination ofthe decline inthe fortunes of religion and the increase inthe fortunes of science has often encouraged the assumption that the ... had the authority of two millennia If we think of Copernicanism as marking the beginning ofthe struggle with non-scientific disciplines, and Darwinism marking the start ofthe final stage of this ... as in Maxwell’s investigation of an inconsistency inthe electromagnetic equations, Planck’s resolution of inconsistencies inthe theory of black-body radiation, Einstein’s resolution of inconsistencies...
... repression and other defenses to inhibit the instinctual urges ofthe id, the generator of sexual and aggressive instincts The ego also responds to the pressures ofthe superego, the largely unconscious ... consists ofthe brain and the spinal cord, is bilaterally symmetrical The spinal cord receives sensory information from the skin through bundles of long axons that innervate the skin These bundles ... that living beings, in all their beauty and infinite variety, are merely the products of ever new combinations of nucleotide bases, the building blocks of DNAs genetic code These combinations...
... may help investors realize the advantages they can have in doing business inthe province, so that they may get interested to make new or expand existing investments inthe province To business ... purpose of acquiring a lasting interest in an enterprise 18 operating outside ofthe country ofthe investor It further clarifies that the investor’s purpose is to gain an effective voice inthe ... the highest score ofthe province in 2010 ………………………………….…………….…49 Table 2: Comparison ofthe component indicators of PCI of Hung Yen province to the highest score ofthe province in 2012 ………………………….…………………….…50...