On the occasion of the thirty-first anniversary of the publication of The Multinational Corporation and the Law of Uneven Development by Hymer, the paper seeks to assess the relevance of Hymer’s prediction to our current understanding of the multinational company (MNC) and its role in world economic development. It argues that the largely ethnocentric type of MNC portrayed by Hymer is descripti...

Leukotrienes (LTs) belong to pro-inflammatory mediators that are biosynthesized from arachidonic acid (AA), inter alia, by 5-lipoxygenase (5-LOX) enzyme in association with 5-LOX-activating protein (FLAP). An activation of LTs synthesis pathway occurs during the development and maintenance of numerous diseases such as asthma, anaphylactic shock, allergic rhinitis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthriti...

This study offers a new perspective on the evolutionary patterns of cities or urban agglomerations. Such developments can range from chaotic to fully ordered. We demonstrate that in a dynamic space of interactive human behaviour cities produce a wealth of gravitational attractors whose size and shape depend on the resistance of space emerging inter alia from transport friction costs. This findi...

Eight localities, representing four generalized environments, were sampled to determine the environmental relations of the small, byssally attached arcid bivalve Barb alia (A car) domingensis on the Bermuda Platform. The species was most abundant in turbulent environments and least abundant in the protected bays and sounds. It usually attaches to the underside of corals; occasionally it is foun...

Religious beliefs and institutions are central to Senegalese society and culture, and their outward and visible manifestations are omnipresent. A 2010 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life study found that 98 percent of Senegalese surveyed said that religion is ‘very important’ in their daily lives.1 Contemporary roles of religious leaders and communities are intricately interwoven into society...

This paper discusses the role that can be played in teaching machine translation (MT) by free on-line MT services, emphasising the advantages that they offer for didactic purposes as well as their drawbacks in comparison with traditional PC-based MT software. Some of the key reasons behind the huge potential for the successful integration of on-line systems into MT teaching activities are explo...

The paper analyzes the network structure of international trade. Adapting a network approach developed in the physical sciences, we propose that international trade functions like a scale-free network. For each commodity group we calculate a characteristic parameter which reflects the structure of its trading network. We then insert this variable into an expanded gravity model to explore the ef...

The theory of Markov decision processes (MDP) can be used to analyze a wide variety of stopping time problems in economics. In this paper, the nature of such problems is discussed and then the underlying theory is applied to the question of arranged marriages. We construct a stylized model of arranged marriages and, inter alia, it is shown that a decision maker' s optimal policy depends only on...

The Grossman model is extended to a situation in which the family is regarded as the producer of individual health and spouses are Nash-bargainers. The model has implications for the interaction between family structure, income and the stocks of health capital and the bargaining strength of different family members. The main insight is that the possibility of divorce affects the distribution of...