We analyze a panel of 230 Canadian manufacturing industries to investigate whether trade liberalization promotes efficiency through increased scale. During the six years following the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Canadian manufacturing exhibited substantial rationalization – a decline in the number of plants accompanied by increases in output per plant. We find that the bilatera...

The objective of this paper is to explore questions of human agency and democratic process in the technical sphere through the example of "virtual community." The formation of relatively stable long term group associations community in the broad sense of the term is the scene on which a large share of human development occurs. As such it is a fundamental human value mobilizing diverse ideologie...

In earlier work we introduced an approach that aims in the understanding of the reasoning that lies behind Enterprise Architecture (EA) designs. This EA rationalization approach helps uncover design constraints, follow good practices while avoid bad ones, and more. However, up to now, our assumptions regarding the usefulness of our approach were largely theory based. In this paper, we use a rea...

We will analyze how women subject to violence in Morocco legitimize their discourse through the use of one legitimation techniques called rationalization, aim which is establish a mode argumentation that victimizes them and demonizes violent husbands. The site from data extracted Medi 1TV’s show “Qesset Nnass” (the story people). This be done within framework critical analysis we decompose wome...

An efficient synthetic approach to the tricyclic core 8 of lateriflorone is described. Essential to the synthesis was the implementation of a biomimetic tandem Claisen/Diels-Alder reaction that produced the desired tricyclic scaffold as a single isomer. A rationalization of the excellent regio and stereoselectivity of this transformation is also proposed. [reaction: see text]

This review covers, in general terms, the salient features and impact of molecular myology under the following headings: its role in providing clues for the understanding of molecular etiology and pathogenesis of genetic myopathies, its contribution to the modernization and rationalization of the classification of muscle diseases, providing means of precise diagnosis and prevention of myopathie...

A new mechanism for the formation of doped polyaniline is presented. Besides providing suitable structural and spectroscopic parameters, the new mechanism allows for the rationalization of the experimentally observed equilibrium between polaron and bipolaron defects in emeraldine salt. The magnetic behavior and the "metallic island" model for conduction in doped polyaniline are also theoretical...