The paper empirically investigates whether people’s attitude towards the progress in political transformation in Eastern Europe are influenced by economic factors. Thereby it addresses the question of independence between economic and political system. Using a large panel data set, containing about 68000 observations on individuals from 19 countries over 6 years, this question is analysed in th...

This paper explores the relationship between firms’ cooperation and their propensity toward environmental innovation. Previous literature has emphasized the peculiarities of such innovations based on their drivers, their positive spill-overs and the importance of regulation to trigger them. This paper contributes to the literature by focusing on the importance of cooperation and of vertical, ho...

We study the impact of learning by doing, learning spill-overs, and imperfect competition in a model with two types of electricity producers, an oligopolistic sector of polluting fossil-fuel utilities and a competitive fringe of non-polluting generators of electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E). Furthermore we consider an upstream industry of RES-E equipment producers engaged in lear...

Typical broadcast material contains not only studio-recorded texts read by trained speakers, but also spontaneous and dialect speech, debates with cross-talk, voice-overs, and on-site reports with difficult acoustic environments. Standard approaches to speech and speaker recognition usually deteriorate under such conditions. This paper reports on the design, construction, and experimental analy...

The genome of poliovirus consists of a single strand of RNA approximately 7.5 kb long. Analysis of the sequences around 40 unique recombination sites reveals several features that differ significantly from those expected of randomly located sites. These features, which include a broad zone of elevated homology on the 3' side of the cross-over, support the theory that RNA recombination occurs by...

We recently performed next generation sequencing (NGS) genetic screening in 11 consecutive and unrelated Tunisian HCM probands seen at Habib Thameur Hospital in Tunis in the first 6 months of 2014, as part of a cooperative study between our Institutions. The clinical diagnosis of HCM was made according to standard criteria. Using the Illumina platform, a panel of 12 genes was analyzed including...

Originally designed for one-day cricket, this paper considers the use of the DuckworthLewis method as an approach to resetting targets in interrupted Twenty20 cricket matches. The Duckworth-Lewis table is reviewed and an alternative resource table is presented. The alternative table is constructed using observed scoring rates from international Twenty20 matches. A desideratum of a resource tabl...

Over the past five years several groups have promoted the use of the radial artery as the second conduit of choice for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), after the left internal mammary artery (LIMA) and in preference to the saphenous vein. The attractions of the radial artery to the surgeon are immediate and obvious: it is a versatile conduit that can be harvested easily and safely, it ha...

While higher effort in research is advocated for agriculture, there continues to be a lack of measurement its impact economic terms, at least Europe. This paper seeks assess the public agricultural R&D investments Different panel models are applied on 16 European countries, by employing productivity and investment data. Results show positive impacts with returns between 6.5% 15.2%, varying ...

In this paper, we discuss arithmetic structures based on quantum cellular automata (QCA). By taking advantage of the unique capabilities of QCA we are able to design interesting computational architectures. We describe important design considerations and show how addition and multiplication circuits can be implemented using QCADesigner, a QCA design tool which has been developed in our laborato...