The existing literature on the effect of recycling on a virgin producer’s market power assumes that the entire output of the recyclable product produced in any period is available to the recycling firms as scrap in a subsequent period. The…

Sir William Osler bequeathed his library to McGill University in 1919 and the 8000 volumes arrived in Montreal a decade later. Then as now the collection consisted of both primary works (rare books) and secondary commentaries and current works on…

"Este documento de tesis pretende mostrar las ventajas del uso del análisis dinámico y las técnicas de control automático en el campo de la moderna ingeniería de las reacciones bioquímicas. Es en este sentido que identificamos dos problemas centrales a…

Monte Carlo simulations of the randomly frustrated three-dimensional Heisenberg model with a moderate fraction (20%) of antiferromagnetic bonds show evidence of two distinct ordering events. Below Tc the spins align collinearly and exhibit ferromagnetic order, while below Txy the transverse…

This comparative analysis of teacher-student interaction in two different instructional settings at the elementary-school level (18.3 hr in French immersion & 14.8 hr Japanese immersion) investigates the immediate effects of explicit correction, recasts, & prompts on learner uptake & repair.…

This article presents a corpus analysis designed to determine the extent to which noun endings in French are reliable predictors of grammatical gender. A corpus of 9,961 nouns appearing in 'Le Robert Junior Illustre' was analysed according to noun endings,…

Increasing evidence indicates that RNA interference (RNAi) may be used to provide antiviral immunity in mammalian cells. Human micro (mi)RNAs can inhibit the replication of a primate virus, whereas a virally-encoded miRNA from HIV inhibits its own replication. Indirect proof…