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Are articulatory settings mechanically advantageous for speech motor control? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
We address the hypothesis that postures adopted during grammatical pauses in speech production are more "mechanically advantageous" than absolute rest positions for facilitating efficient postural motor control of vocal tract articulators.
Vikram Ramanarayanan   +3 more
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Determination of the Variability of Bioactive Compounds and Minerals in Olive Leaf along an Agronomic Cycle

open access: yesAgronomy, 2021
Olive leaves are still considered waste in the oil industry; however, the leaves have a content of oleuropein and other bioactive compounds that gives them great potential to be transformed into by-products. The most appropriate moment along an agronomic
María Esther Martínez-Navarro   +3 more
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Absolute advantages and capital mobility in international trade theory [PDF]

open access: yesThe European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2021
Capital mobility has the potential of undermining the validity of Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantage.
Enrico Bellino, Saverio M. Fratini
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A Rehabilitation of Absolute Advantage

open access: yesJournal of Political Economy, 1985
This paper considers the question of how optimal assignments depend on the endowed traits of economic agents. Its most useful point is that the absolute levels of these traits, in conjunction with technology, always determine the structure of efficient allocations.
MacDonald, Glenn M, Markusen, James R
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Where Is American Agriculture in Its "Life Cycle"?

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003
The increasing globalization of agricultural markets in recent decades appears to be changing the economics of the American production agriculture sector, reducing its economic importance and raising questions about its life cycle. This study contributes
Steven C. Blank
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Gender and Comparative Advantage: Feminist–Heterodox Theorizing about Globalization

open access: yesEconomies, 2019
Heterodox feminist scholars have argued that global trade patterns reflect patterns of competitive advantage—rather than comparative advantage—and that that competitive advantage is gendered.
Shaianne T. Osterreich
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Design of TID controller based on firefly algorithm for controlling the speed of a D.C. Motor [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Implementation of tilt integral derivative (TID) controller for controlling the speed of a D.C. Motor using meta heuristic nature inspired algorithm named by firefly algorithm (FA) is proposed in this paper.
Rajput Govind Kumar   +6 more
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The Generalization of the Comparative Advantage Theory

open access: yesJournal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2017
Economic textbooks relate the principle of comparative advantage using examples of two products and two countries, the 2x2 case. We shall suggest an approach describing any finite number of products m and countries n, the mxn case, where m>2, n>2 ...
Leszek Jasiński
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Romanian Business Environment in the Context of Economic Competitiveness Based on Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yesRisk in Contemporary Economy, 2012
The changes of production factors priorities affect more and more the evolution of global economy, requiring reorientation of development policies both at company level and at national economies level to adapt to the phenomenon called: “the new economy ...
Ion STEGAROIU, Gabriel CROITORU
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Absolute activity of gold foil measurement using coincidence method to determine absolute neutron flux of zero power reactor [PDF]

open access: yesمجله علوم و فنون هسته‌ای, 2019
To perform an effective experimental implementation in a zero- power reactor or more generally, critical assemblies, it is necessary to measure the total neutron flux to calibrate the reactor power. The 4πβ-γ coincidence method via the activation of gold
P Kaviani, N Tehrani
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