Agriculture is the focus of much contention in free trade negotiations. The Japanese government is against liberalizing the rice trade on the grounds that it would threaten “national food security” in the events of such shocks as crop failure, war, and embargo. Trade liberalization is expected to make Japan more dependent upon food imports and to make the Japanese economy more susceptible to th...

i n the past decades, the effect of different tax amendments on various economic issues has been studied. the majority of these studies have avoided considering shadow economy as part of the calculation and analysis, and an issue, which has received little attention, is the relationship between green tax reforms and shadow economy, as for informal labor, which is well-connected to unemployment ...

In-situ ESR/UV-vis-NIR spectroelectrochemistry was implemented to probe the spin state of the radical cation of a non-IPR cluster-fullerene Sc(3)N@C(68), which represents the first study on the stable paramagnetic cation of an endohedral fullerene.

We develop methods to compute equilibria in dynamic models with incomplete asset markets and heterogeneous agents. Using spline interpolation methods we approximate recursive trading policies of the agents and the equilibrium pricing functions. We explore various methods for determining the coe$cients of these approximations, including time iteration methods and acceleration techniques. Explori...

This paper investigates the current important issue in Taiwan that the impact of foreign workers on the rising unemployment rate by constructing a dynamic intertemporal general equilibrium model. The results show that foreign workers rob jobs from the local unskilled labor and raise the unemployment rates during the past decade. However, extending the time frame to a longer term, an increasing ...

7. It is concluded that tran8-tran8-muconic acid is probably a true metabolite of benzene and is not produced in vivo from the ci8-ci8-acid. It is suggested that the 68-c68-acid need not be an intermediate in the formation of the tran8-tranm-acid in the animal body. The expense of this work was in part defrayed by a grant from the Medical Research Council. We are grateful to Prof. R. Cruickshan...

Mycobacteria are unusual in encoding two GroEL paralogs, GroEL1 and GroEL2. GroEL2 is essential--presumably providing the housekeeping chaperone functions--while groEL1 is nonessential, contains the attB site for phage Bxb1 integration, and encodes a putative chaperone with unusual structural features. Inactivation of the Mycobacterium smegmatis groEL1 gene by phage Bxb1 integration allows norm...