This study focuses on the collaboration patterns that small firms hold with other agents within liberal market economies and identifies collaborative drivers in this context deliver a superior impact innovation output measured by product process innovations. To explore research question, combines literature systems growing business modes studies whether businesses are driven science technology ...

Recently Robert Mann and his colleagues, using a Canadian sample, performed a factor analysis on the RIA Self Inventory (RIASI), a screening instrument developed for use with DUI offenders. Results showed differential relationships of the eight identified factors with various outcomes. The current study was designed to confirm the factor structure of the RIASI in a sample from the United States...

The question of whether animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) undergoes recombination has recently been the subject of intense debate. In a recent paper (Ladoukakis and Zouros 2001), we presented evidence for mtDNA recombination from direct recovery of recombinant molecules in the gonads of several males of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. Because in this species there exist two lineages of mit...

Context Although Brazil has made important attempts to change drinking and driving legislation over the past few years, with the aim of strengthening the punishment for drunk drivers, the burden of road traffic accidents in the country remains one of the highest in the world. The most notable example was the new traffic law introduced in 2008, which lowered the blood alcohol concentration (BAC)...