Trade, Peace and Democracy: An Analysis of Dyadic Dispute At least since 1750 when Baron de Montesquieu declared "peace is the natural effect of trade," a number of economists and political scientists espoused the notion that trade among nations leads to peace. Employing resources wisely to produce one commodity rather than employing them inefficiently to produce another is the foundation for c...

Although computers and electronic networks have become pervasive in contemporary financial markets, the telephone keeps playing a crucial role as a communication device in the trading rooms of investment banks and brokerage houses. The author examines this technology, its uses and the way in which it frames trade interactions in a number of empirical situations, with particular attention to the...

28 Bilateral movement rehabilitation is gaining popularity as an approach not only to improve the recovery 29 of bimanual function, but also of unilateral motor tasks. While the neural mechanisms mediating the 30 transfer of bilateral training gains into unimanual contexts are not fully understood, converging evidence 31 from behavioural, neurophysiological and imaging studies suggests that bim...

In this paper several control strategies and feedback information for teleoperation of a mobile robot are described and analyzed. Main objective is to verify the role of different types of feedback information and command strategies. Three control strategies which combined position-speed and position-position control modes are analyzed. Position-speed and positionposition command strategies are...

Long-range interaction has been reported to be limited in space within a few degrees. Here, we present a new type of interaction by means of a bilateral configuration using two Gabor signals (GSs). Two horizontally oriented GSs, the first defined as a cue and the second as a probe, appeared in the right and left peripheral visual fields in mirror symmetrical regions. The detection threshold of ...

Following bilateral vestibular loss (BVL) patients gradually adapt to the loss of vestibular input and rely more on other sensory inputs. Here we examine changes in the way proprioceptive and visual inputs interact. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate visual responses in the context of varying levels of proprioceptive input in 12 BVL subjects and 15 normal contro...

Whole-body vibration (WBV) has been used to improve jumping ability, muscle strength, power, and performance in various sports. Bilateral deficit (BLD) is defined as the difference magnitude of maximum force during single or double support. The present study investigated effect unilateral bilateral whole-body exercise on asymmetry BLD former artistic gymnasts. Twenty-eight gymnasts volunteered ...

hemimelia as a congenital anomaly is a failure of development of extremities formation in embryonic period. this anomaly is defined as complete absence of the part of extremities and different forms were explained for hemimelia. adactyly is an alternative name for transverse hemimelia and is a rare disorder in the most of animal species. a two months old male lamb with normal vital signs was re...