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The potential usex of public resources and powers to improve the economic stuius of economic groups (such as industries and occupations) are analyzed to provide a scheme of the demand for regulation. The characteristics of the political process which allow relatively small groups to obtain

One approach to the generation of natural-sounding syn-thesized speech waveforms is to select and concatenate units from a large speech database. Units (in the current work, phonemes) are selected to produce a natural realisation of a target phoneme sequence predicted from text which is annotated

as research that assessed the leadership styles of people not selected for occupancy of leadership roles. Consistent with stereotypic expectations about a different aspect of leadership style, the tendency to lead democratically orautocratically, women tended to adopt a more demo-cratic or participative style

to plan and implement urban forms that promote increased accessibility. At the crux of this agenda are the intentions to decrease the need to travel, reduce dependence on the single-occupant vehicle (SOV), and enhance the competitiveness of other travel modes. More specifically, this paper documents

of hospital discharges and deaths. Controls were selected randomly from the general population. National censuses were used for information on occupational titles. A total of 20 364 cases and 136 342 controls were included in the study. Among these, 1183 cases and 6072 controls had worked as drivers. Results

-velop better materials and fitting tech-niques if we want to grow and flour-ish. Patient Selection Because there is increased risks for adverse reaction with extended wear the patient and the fitter must both be aware of these risk factors. It is important to do a proper patient interview. If a patient

. Globalization is highly selective. It proceeds by linking up all that, according to dominant interests, has value anywhere in the planet, and discarding anything (people, rms, territories, resources) which has no value or becomes devalued, in a variable geometry of creative destruction and destructive creation

Competitive high ranking positions are largely occupied by men, and women remain scarce in engineering and sciences. Explanations for these occupational differences focus on discrimination and preferences for work hours and field of study. We explore an additional explanation, namely that women

This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire when