We use data on 3,948 Chinese firms obtained from the World Bank’s Investment Climate Private Enterprise Survey to investigate early international entrepreneurship (international new ventures) in China. The extent of early international entrepreneurship in China is significant: 65 per cent of the exporting firms start export operations within three years. Foreign shareholders within the firm and...

Data parallelism means operating on distributed tables, data elds, in parallel. An abstract model of data parallelism treats data elds as functions explicitly restricted to a nite set. Data parallel functional languages based on this view vill reach a very high level of abstraction. In this report we consider two static analyses that, when successful, give information about the extent of a recu...

Compte and Postlewaite (2008, 2012) set out a model that assumed that peoples’ behavior was organized via mental systems, and employed that framework to analyze how people might cooperate in a repeated relationship with private monitoring with plausible strategies. That paper focussed on the case in which two people played a repeated prisoners dilemma game. In this paper we show that the basic ...

Twenty-one patients with atrioventricular (AV) bypass tracts underwent electrophysiologic studies. The bypass tract was left-sided in 15 patients, septal in five and right-sided in one patient. Orthodromic AV-reciprocating tachycardia was induced in all 21 patients, with a mean tachycardia cycle length of 342 59 msec. The introduction of single stimuli in the high right atrium during tachycardi...

This paper studies local-control strategies to estimate the size of a certain event affecting an arbitrary connected subset of nodes in a network. For example, our algorithms allow nodes in a peer-to-peer system to explore the remaining connected components after a Denial-ofService attack, or nodes in a sensor network to assess the magnitude of a certain environmental event. In our model, each ...

UNLABELLED Regards and Tribute: Late Dr Narender Hasija was a mentor and visionary in the light of knowledge and experience. We pay our regards with deepest gratitude to the departed soul to rest in peace. Bolton's ratios help in estimating overbite, overjet relationships, the effects of contemplated extractions on posterior occlusion, incisor relationships and identification of occlusal misfit...

Sheth, Vrunda, "Visualization of protein 3D structures in reduced representation with simultaneous display of intra and inter-molecular interactions" (2009). i This thesis is dedicated to my beloved family, to my parents for their never ending encouragement and confidence in me and to my sisters for their motivation and guidance. ii DISSERTATION AUTHOR PERMISSION STATEMENT TITLE OF THESIS: Visu...

The authors examined the effectiveness of a novel behavior modification method for dysfunctional and impulsive habits, based on nonremovable reminders (NrRs). NrRs were implemented by having participants wear nonremovable wristbands designated to constantly remind them of their resolution to quit the targeted habit (nail-biting). Participants were 80 nail-biters who resolved to quit. The NrR ap...

Using a percutaneous transhepatic technique, blood was obtained from the portal veins of 30 patients with various hepatic disorders and examined for the presence of bacteria and endotoxin. Simultaneous samples also were drawn from hepatic and peripheral veins. In three cases, portal vein cultures grew diphtheroids, which were of doubtful significance, while all hepatic and peripheral cultures w...

A LITTLE over 154 years ago a small dispensary, dedicated to the care of the sick poor, was opened in Smithfield. From this modest, but most worthy, beginning, our present noble heritage, the Royal Victoria Hospital, has been evolved by the zeal and gelf-sacrifice of an illustrious band of workers. Our meeting together here this morning marks the one hundred and nineteenth anniversary of the de...