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Relatedness And Performance: A Reexamination Of The Diversification-Performance Link, John Y. Ding, Julie Caswell, Furen Zhou

Julie Caswell

Empirical studies of firm diversification suggest the existence of a positive relationship between the relatedness of diversification and firm performance. Using evidence from the food manufacturing sector, we find that this relationship is weak at best and that market share appears to be a more powerful predictor of firm performance.

Brief On The Bicycle-Pedestrian Pathway Dedication By The Rails-To-Trails Conservancy, The League Of American Bicyclists, The Bicycle Federation Of Oregon, National Wildlife Federation, And The American Society Of Landscape Architects As Amici Curiae In Support Of Respondent. Florence Dolan V. City Of Tigard, In The Supreme Court Of The United States, Andrea Ferster, Elizabeth A. Brabec, Glenn P. Sugamelli, Daniel L. Rabinowitz

Elizabeth Brabec

No abstract provided.

Breaking All The Rules: An Interview With Frances Peters, Jacqueline Urla

Jacqueline L. Urla

No abstract provided.

Sexual Differentiation Of Vasopressin Projections Of The Bed Nucleus Of The Stria Terminalis And Medial Amygdaloid Nucleus In Rats, Geert De Vries, Z. X. Wang, N. A. Bullock

Geert De Vries

The vasopressin-immunoreactive (AVP-ir) projections of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BST) and medial amygdaloid nucleus (MA) are much denser in males than in females even if males and females are treated with similar amounts of testosterone. Previous studies have established that testosterone influences AVP-ir projections during development, but not whether these effects of testosterone were permanent. This study tested the effects of various hormonal manipulations during development on the ability of testosterone to influence the AVP immunostaining in cells of the BST and MA and of fibers in the lateral septum of adult rats. In the first experiment, …

Laos: Beyond The Revolution, Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

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The Value Of Home-Grown Companies, John Mullin, Zenia Kotval

John R. Mullin

Over the past decade we have been involved in more than fifty economic development projects in cities and towns across the Pioneer Valley. These have ranged from the revitalization of older industrial areas in Springfield, the development of incubator facilities in Chicopee, the reuse of the Waverly Mill in Adams to the siting of a new industrial park in Deerfield. In each case we are almost always questioned about how a community could encourage the next Pratt and Whitney Digital or BMW plant to come to our region. Upon hearing the question, we point out that there are only 1200 …

A Case Of Surface Constraint Violation, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

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Template Form In Prosodic Morphology, John J. Mccarthy

John J. McCarthy

A pre-OT analysis of the verbal templates in Akkadian and Arabic.

Generalized Alignment, John J. Mccarthy, Alan Prince

John J. McCarthy

Structural relations between grammatical categories (here, morphological and phonological) are governed by a single family of constraints under Optimality Theory: these demand that one type of grammatical constituent share a designated edge with some other type of constituent. Evidence is considered from footing patterns, infixability, epenthesis, syllabification, and prosodic subcategorization.

Prosodic Morphology I: Constraint Interaction And Satisfaction, John J. Mccarthy, Alan Prince

John J. McCarthy

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction; 2. Optimality Theory; 3. The Stratal Organization of Axininca Campa Morphology; 4. The Prosodic Phonology of Axininca Campa; 5. The Prosodic Morphology of Axininca Campa; 6. Comparison with Other Analyses of Axininca Campa Reduplication; 7. Prosody >> Morphology: Constraint Interaction in Prosodic Morphology; 8. Conclusion; Appendix: Stress and Velar Glide Loss; A.1. Word-level Phonology; A.2. Stress and Related Phenomena; A.3. Velar Glide Loss

Introduction Of "War Among The Yugoslavs" (Special Issue), Joel Halpern

Joel M. Halpern

This issue presents American and West European anthropological perspectives on recent events prior to the outbreak of war in former Yugoslavia. Included are articles by anthropologists from Croatia and Serbia which deal directly with the war and its impact on their respective societies. The first group of essays should be understood as background to armed struggle involving violent death, destruction, and bereavement and those tragedies still in the making. The horrors associated with these events in this Balkan setting are unparalleled in Europe since World War Two. They do not have precise parallels elsewhere but bring to mind the sufferings …

Book Review Of The United States In The Global Economy: Challenges And Policy Choices, John Mullin

John R. Mullin

Academics who teach either economic development or industrial policy courses struggle to find a core text to support their courses. Typically they borrow material from business, economics, political science, or public policy and blend articles into a reader that is rearely comprehensive and often lacks continuity. For this reason alone, these academics will be quite pleased to learn of John Accordino's new text, The United States in the Global Economy: Challenges and Policy Choices.

The Greenfield Versus Brownfield Debate: A Balanced Approach To Industrial Planning, John R. Mullin, Zenia Kotval, Maureen Moriarty

John R. Mullin

Across the United States, mill towns and industrial communities, the "brownfields", have been experiencing rapid disinvestment as manufacturing and service firms increasingly move to suburban industrial parks, the "greenfields". This locational trend has been intensified over the years by our policies and regulations for industrial development. Is this shifting balance a desired result of our policies? The authors believe this trend has had negative effects on both the center cities left behind, as well as on the communities which are being developed. Analysis of the "Greenfield-Brownfield" debate can assist economic development planners in promoting balanced industrial growth. This article analyzes …