The contribution of information technology (IT) to economic growth and development is seen as an important factor underlying the pace of development in many developing countries. While Asia’s NIEs are often portrayed as models for economic growth, Ireland’s recent economic performance has attracted considerable attention, earning it the label, Europe’s Celtic Tiger. We adopt a framework of IT-l...

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), 2-methyl-1-butanol, 3-methyl-1-butanol and 2-phenylethanol, were detected together with β-cyclocitral from the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa NIES-843. These alcohols were optimally produced after 35 d of culture, during which nitrate nitrogen in the cultured broth became exhausted. Additionally, these alcohols were definitely produced using the 2-keto-...

1. Introduction As one of the basic drives of globalization, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is playing an active role in the economic development of NIEs. For instance, in China 2004, fixed assets investment, industry value added, and export of FDI firms accounts for 12%, 28%, and 57% of nation's total amount. 24 million employees are hired by FDI firms which accounts for 10% of all non-agricu...

This paper focuses on two major aspects of globalization: international trade and FDI and their impacts on manufacturing employment in Iran and study whether foreign direct investment and trade expansion with Asian and European partner played any role in shaping the Iranian manufacturing employment structure. This study incorporates globalization (KOF index), trade integration and FDI into a si...

The functional and numerical responses of the facultative anaerobic heterotrophic nanoflagellate, Suigetsumonas clinomigrationis NIES-3647 to prey density were examined under oxic and anoxic conditions. S. clinomigrationis grew at temperatures between 10 and 30°C and in the salinity range of 3.9-36.9 psu. The maximum specific growth and ingestion rates of S. clinomigrationis were lower under an...

be true, it is still uncertain whether or not the pro teins of cancer and homologous normal tissues have the same or different amino acid composi tion. It seemed worth while, therefore, to reinvestigate this problem with the aid of recently developed microbiological methods which have the advantage of high reproducibility, reasonable accuracy and ready applicability to nearly all of the commonl...

It is shown that a set is low for weakly 1-generic iff it has neither dnr nor hyperimmune Turing degree. As this notion is more general than being recursively traceable, this answers negatively a recent question on the characterization of these sets. Furthermore, it is shown that every set which is low for weakly 1-generic is also low for Kurtz-random. In addition to this, it is shown that a se...

We show that if a set A is computable from every superlow 1random set, then A is strongly jump-traceable. Together with a result of Greenberg and Nies (Benign cost functions and lowness properties, J. Symb. Logic 76 (1): 289-312, 2011), this theorem shows that the computably enumerable (c.e.) strongly jump-traceable sets are exactly the c.e. sets computable from every superlow 1-random set. We ...

Foreign Direct Investmentplays a crucial role in the economy of developing countries like Bangladesh through accelerating Gross Domestic Product (GDP), export and domestic investment followed by overall economic growth. The present scenario of FDI in Bangladesh in not still satisfactory enough but given the availability of abundant resources, skilled and cheap labor forces, a stable political a...