∗Present address: Instituto de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de València, Apartado de Correros 22085, E46071 Valencia, Spain. Partially supported by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under Grant No. FPA2007-60323, by CPAN (Grant No. CSD200700042), and by the European Commission MRTN FLAVIAnet under Contract No. MRTN-CT-2006-035482. †Speaker. ‡Supported in part by Studienstiftung des...

Mobile portals have become a common entry point to the mobile Internet, and take a number of forms. They may be service provider portals, such as Vodafone’s Live! portal (Vodafone, 2006), offering access to both in-house and brokered external services. Alternatively, they may be public pure play sites that provide some kind of managed access to resources using a yellowpages approach. Good examp...

Examination of 400 Saxon, Romano-British, andmediaeval skeletons from seven archaeological excava-tions in the west ofEngland showed an unexpectedly highincidence of osteoarthritis and osteophytosis. Threeskeletons had evidence of an erosive peripheral arthritis-onewithprobable gout, one probable psoriatic arthropathy,and one with possible rheumatoid arthritis. The<l...

There are various regulations on the protection of employee (worker) in situation transfer workplace or business Turkish legislation. First, Article 202 Code Obligations (TCO) dated 2011, provides this issue general. Furthermore Articles 428 and 429 regulate conveyance employment contracts. 6 Employment Act (EA) 2003, which partly fully, is based European Union (EU) Directive no. 2001/23/EC rel...

Abstract The advent of forest concessions in the Brazilian Amazon generated expectation an increase supply legal timber and concomitant conservation public forests not yet reached. aim this article was to analyze Brazil’s experience with for private companies since approval Public Forest Management Act (LGFP), 11.284/2006, from perspective local institutional arrangements. We analyzed documenta...

To overcome the unattractiveness of small markets, the United States govemment provides financial aid and incentives for drug manufacturers to create cures for rare diseases under the Orphan Drug Act ("the Act").' Recent research integrating genetic information and pharmacology holds promise for creating more effective drugs targeted at smaller populations than ever before. In the near future, ...

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