... of textile and apparel import barriers and regulations on U.S. welfare and sectoral activity. We find that the effects of quantitative restraints have declined after the ATC, although remaining ... preferential trading partners. While there is a substantial literature on quotas and tariffs in these sectors, this paper provides a new and detailed examination of preferential rules of origin, including ... Knit fabric would also benefit from a projected increase in foreign demand. 15 Textile and Apparel Barriers and Rules of Origin ina Post-ATC World Alan Fox U.S. International Trade...
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... field. Many recent years, taking part in many organizations and political economy in the world WTO, ASEAN has attracted many investors and business organizations to operate in Vietnam that CSR ... company operating in Vietnam by asking respondents' understanding and opinion. From conducting the research, it is able to show the understanding and awareness about CSR concept of multinational ... companies operating in Vietnam formally issue CSR reporting. Thus, all multinational companies operating in Vietnam have to follow the law and regulations in Vietnam. 1.2.2 CSR practices and...
... designated HeLaTR/4-1BB and HeaLaTR/TRAF1, respectively. Primers for amplifying the 4-1BB and TRAF1 cDNAs were: 5Â-GAATTCAAGCTTATGGGAAACAGCTGTTACAACATA-3Â and 5Â-GAATTCAAGCTTCACAGTTCACATCCTCCTTCTTCT-3Â ... used for amplifying the hTRa1cDNA were: 5Â-CCCGGGAAGCTTCGGACCATGGAACAGAAGCCAAGCAAGGTG-3Â and 5Â-CCCGGGGTCGACGACTTCCTGATCCTCAAAGACCTC-3Â .In order to overexpress 4-1BB and TRAF1 in the HeLaTRcells, ... immunopre-cipitated from the cell extracts with an anti-human TRa Ig. The human TRa1proteinwasfractionated on a polyacrylamide gel and visualized by an image analyzer. The arrowindicates the band of human...
... renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination in theUnited States included consideration of the wide range of vaccine efficacies deter-mined by clinical trials and estimated in ... of available data concern-ing the protective efficacy afforded by both BCG vaccination of adults and the type of vaccine strain administered precluded the inclusion of these factors as covariates ... indicated that the prevalence of tuberculin reactions of ≥10 mm in- duration in adolescents and young adults was similar among those personsvaccinated during infancy and those never vaccinated. Although...
... tourists and organizations. In the words of Barbara Czarniawska, today’s organizations are facedwith thefrantic production of images which are circulated; a frantic translation of incoming images into ... reducingour use of material and nonrenewable energy anda myriad of tools and concepts embracing presentedas tools for achieving sustainability (including initiatives such as LCA, dematerialization, ... under-standing of sustainable development in general and sustainable consumption in particular.Contemporary Studies of Sustainable Consumption A vast number of articles focusing on sustainable...
... reaction pathways have been found: intra -and intermolecular ester exchange, cis-elimination, radical and concerted nonradical reactions, radical reactions and Sn-catalyzed depolymerisation (Kopinke ... Thermal Stability of the Nanostructured Powder Mixtures Prepared by Mechanical Alloying Safia Alleg, Saida Souilah and Joan Joseph Suñol Additional information is available at the end of the ... under a defined temperature program (various combinations of thermal scans-heating/cooling, and isothermal cycles), a pressure (stable) and an atmosphere (inert or reactive). Principally, sample...
... interpretation. In effect, the hand-coded rulesact as a kind of backing-off mechanism, alleviat-ing the problem of data sparseness.Looking ahead, we are currently investigatingseveral interesting ... versionconsequently assigned an incorrect interpretation. In the combined version, a hand-coded pattern for305 Transparent combination of rule-based and data-driven approaches in a speech understanding architectureManny ... 25.6%22.2%Table 1: Percentage semantic interpretation errorson in- domain test data for different amounts of training data and different versions of the system.Training and test data both in speech...
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... Facts, and BankRegulation,” in R. Glenn Hubbard (ed.), Financial Markets and Financial Crises, University of Chicago Press, 109–173.[8] Calomiris, C. and J. Mason (1997) “Contagion and Bank Failures ... in New England.This suggests that the announcement revealed information about the real estate sector and more so about the real estate sector in New England, and that this information was rationallytaken ... lookedless attractive from an ex-ante standpoint. Interpreting such behavior at the level of an indi-vidual bank or institution may perhaps suggest a behavioral ineffic iency on part of the loanofficers:...
... consists ofa pair of manipulator arms with grippers, mounted in a position to resemble human arms, and an an-imatronic talking head (van Breemen, 2005) ca-pable of producing facial expressions, ... Proceedings of CHI 1998. doi:10.1145/274644.274722.M. A. Walker, D. J. Litman, C. A. Kamm, and A. Abella. 1997. PARADISE: A framework forevaluating spoken dialogue agents. In Proceed-ings of ACL/EACL ... Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, pages 879–887,Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009.c2009 ACL and AFNLPComparing Objective and Subjective Measures...
... cardiovascular surgery.Possible impact of changes in initial clinical training systemJapan introduced a new clinical training system in 2004, and this will probably affect physicians' career ... physicians, the percentages of physicians working in rural areas and the average ages of physicians. The national population in these years wasobtained by referring to the Japan Population Census and the ... Short-age of pediatricians in Japan: a longitudinal analysis usingPhysicians' Survey Data. Pediatr Int 2009 in press.8. Shimada N, Kondo T: Estimation of actual report rates usingdata from...
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