Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region’s trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa’s stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture exports in a number of Asian and Latin American economies over the period 1981-1997 and examines the reveal...

We review firstly whyWeyl’s Geometry, within the context of FriedmanLemaitre-Robertson-Walker cosmological models, can account for both the origins and the value of the observed vacuum energy density (dark energy). The source of dark energy is just the dilaton-like Jordan-BransDicke scalar field that is required to implement Weyl invariance of the most simple of all possible actions. A nonvanis...

This paper introduces a new trade model type. It combines the gravity model, well-known in international economics, with network theory. With this approach, complicated trade networks can be algebraically solved in form of systems of linear (differential) equations. Business cycles and productivity shocks can be represented via complex numbers or the Laplace transformation. With the help of thi...

We construct experimental economies for the purpose of studying market equilibration. The economies are the most complex laboratory economies studied to date and are “international” in economic structure. The economies have twenty-one markets and due to the fact that they have on the order of 50 agents, the economies are characterized by several hundred equations. In spite of the complexity and...

According to very recent developments of the LARES mission, which would be devoted to the measurement of the general relativistic Lense–Thirring effect in the gravitational field of the Earth with Satellite Laser Ranging, it seems that the LARES satellite might be finally launched in a polar, low– altitude orbit by means of a relatively low–cost rocket. The observable would be the node only. Th...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The hypothesis of an ancient introduction, i.e. archaeophyte origin, is one of the most challenging questions in phylogeography. Arundo donax (Poaceae) is currently considered to be one of the worst invasive species globally, but it has also been widely utilzed by man across Eurasia for millennia. Despite a lack of phylogenetic data, recent literature has often speculated on...

AIMS This population pharmacokinetic analysis was conducted to describe quantitatively the regional differences and sources of interpatient variability on the apparent oral clearance of alisertib. METHODS A population pharmacokinetic analysis was performed on data from 671 cancer patients in Western countries and in Japan/East Asia to whom alisertib 5-150 mg once or twice daily (b.i.d.) was a...

Gravity data gaps in mountainous areas are nowadays often filled in with the data from airborne gravity surveys. Because of the errors caused by the airborne gravimeter sensors, and because of rough flight conditions, such errors cannot be completely eliminated. The precision of the gravity disturbances generated by the airborne gravimetry is around 3-5 mgal. A major obstacle in using airborne ...