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T paper examines how the optimal investment in the capacity of flexible and nonflexible resources is affected by financial leverage and, conversely, how a firm’s resource flexibility affects its optimal capital structure. We consider a two-product firm that invests in the optimal capacity of product-flexible and productdedicated resources in the presence of demand uncertainty. Before investing ...

Women have periodic physiologic change of menstruation. There is a possibility to be influenced the physical and mentally in the female. It is necessary to support a comfortable life and work for female. The relationship between workload and stress that was taken the menstrual cycle into consideration had been examined on mental tasks in this research. Menstrual phase, follicular phase and prem...

Civil wars not only cause huge amounts of human distress, but are also a major cause of lowincomes. Hence their prevention should be a central aspect of poverty reduction strategies. Since about half low-income countries have been affected by wars, and a much higher proportion of the very worst off economies, policies to prevent conflict should form a central part of policies towards low-income...

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The editors of this special issue asked Todd LaPorte to reflect on the issues that emerge from the discussions in this special issue and, more in general, from the discussions that have proliferated in the wake of recent crises and disasters. In his contribution, Professor LaPorte contemplates what political leaders can do to prepare for catastrophic surprises. A crucial initiative, he argues, ...

as a result of higher distributed consanguinity in the mediterranean region and the middle east, autosomal-recessive forms of charcot-marie-tooth (arcmt) are more common in these areas. cmt disease caused by mutations in the ganglioside-induced differentiation-associated protein 1 (gdap1) gene is a severe autosomal recessive neuropathy resulting in either demyelinating cmt4a neuropathy or axona...

This study aims at empirically furthering awareness of the organization of interaction in EFL classes. Informed by the methodological framework of conversation analysis, it draws upon a corpus of 52 three-hour naturally-occurring classroom interaction to identify classroom interactional contexts based on the structuring of the pedagogic goals in turn-taking sequences. Conversation analytic proc...

Far-infrared pedestrian detection approaches for advanced driver-assistance systems based on high-dimensional features fail to simultaneously achieve robust and real-time detection. We propose a robust and real-time pedestrian detection system characterized by novel candidate filters, novel pedestrian features and multi-frame approval matching in a coarse-to-fine fashion. Firstly, we design two...