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Why do mergers occur, what are their effects on social welfare and which are the best economic policies toward them? These three questions have been puzzling industrial economists since the end of
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Full of easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets of information, this volume includes hundreds of review questions and their answers, enabling practitioners to prepare effectively for board exams as well
This book questions the belief that patronage explains poor governance and weak organizations. Its focus is on high-level political appointees in the Philippines, but its implications for development
Outsourcing of clinical trials to Latin America by the transnational pharmaceutical industry began about 20 years ago. This book raises questions about the quality of data obtained from the trials and
This book presents a comprehensive review of nuclear cardiology principles and concepts necessary to pass the Nuclear Cardiology Technology Specialty Examination. The practice questions are similar in
In this "SpringerBrief" the author considers the underlying problems and questions that are common to numerical models of turbulence in different astrophysical systems. Turbulence has emerged as an im
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This book presents key studies regarding the challenges of economic regional integration in West Africa. It provides fresh answers to persistent development questions and opens new perspectives on the
Membrane transporters can be major determinants of the pharmacokinetic, safety and efficacy profiles of drugs. This presents several key questions for drug development, including which transporters ar
The papers included in the volume look at how language awareness affects the outcomes of foreign and second language acquisition in advanced learners. The book focuses on questions such as how much li
This book addresses some of the key questions that scientists have been asking themselves for centuries: what is knowledge? What is information? How do we know that we know something? How do we constr
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These selected papers from the XXVIth Conference of the International Cartographic Association span the entire discipline, from questions of appropriate sources of geographic data to issues arising in
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This book addresses the questions why citizenship education is an important subject for students in further and adult education and why we need democratic colleges to support the study of citizenship
The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditio
As the European Union has evolved, it has also begun to address policy questions which are closer to the very heart of the state. From cooperation in Justice and Home Affairs, originally conceived as
This comprehensive resource tackles current questions encountered by health professionals about the safety of vaccines, from autism to cancer. It will help professionals, trainees and researchers aid
The book gives an overview of important research topics recently addressed in evolutionary Neo-Schumpeterian Economics. The list of research questions and applications of Neo-Schumpeterian reasoning i
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