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Impact of tariff reduction on exports: A quantitative assessment of Indian exports to US
No full textThis paper quantitatively assesses likely changes in market access opportunities for Indian exports owing to tariff reductions by the USA. The study identifies particular products for India at the ISIC 4-digit level of disaggregation, which could be considered tariff sensitive. Regression analysis of the relationship between MFN tariff rates and India's exports to the US was used to assess in quantitative terms the likely impact of tariff reduction that may be agreed in the Doha Round. This analysis suggests that tariff cuts are not expected to benefit India's exports to the US in a major way. With the full implementation of the Chairman's formula for tariff cuts, increase in India's exports to the US would amount to 1.2 or 0.6 depending on the value of the B coefficient in theChairman's formula. These findings are in all likelihood substantially due to the tariff diversion effect of NAFTA preferences in favour of suppliers in Mexico, which is a competing country in many traditional items. It is expected that reduction of MFN tariff would alleviate the trade diversion effect of the NAFTA.The study has also attempted to decompose changes in India's total exports due to tariff reductions in the US into the competitive and market effects. The analysis suggests that the increase in India's exports would be mainly due to the competitive effect. This leads the author to conclude that it is crucial for India to improve its competitiveness vis-a-vis its competitors in different markets.
Effect of IFNbeta and anti-IFNbeta antibodies on NK cells in multiple sclerosis patients.
No full textDesign and Analysis of a GaSb Heterojuncton Vertical TFET with Source Pocket for Work Function Engineering and Improved Analog Performance
No full textTo provide a highly efficient device, this article presents a vertical GaSb tunnel field effect transistor (Hetero-VTFET) both with and without a source pocket in order to achieve the maximum level of performance. This is the first time that a group IV miscible alloy, GaSb, has been used in the source to improve carrier tunneling in a heterojunction of a source (GaSb) and channel (Si). Due to low band gap of GaSb material in source region the carrier tunnelling is high at source channel interface. A heterojunction structure and work function engineering are used to establish an optimal Hetero-Vertical TFET design. In order to analyze the behavior of hetero-Vertical TFETs developed, TCAD Silvaco simulation results are used. In accordance with the proposed optimal structure, the ratio of ION to IOFF(>1014) is higher, the subthreshold swing is shorter (25 mV/Dec), and the ION current is in the range of 10-5 A/m
Detection of phi -> a(0)(980)gamma, f(0)(980)gamma and phi ->eta gamma, phi ->eta 'gamma with the KLOE detector at DA Phi NE
No full textKLOE has analysed ~ 16.6 pb-1 of total 30 pb-1 collected at DAΦNE by the end of 2000. The preliminary results for the branching ratios BR(φ → f0(980)γ) = (23.7 ± 0.6stat) × 10-5 and BR(φ → a0(980)γ) = (5.8 ± 0.5stat) × 10-5 lead to a ratio BR(φ → f0(980)γ)/BR(φ → a0(980)γ) = 4.1 ± 0.4 stat with a systematic error which will not exceed 10%. The ratio BR(φ → η′γ)/BR(φ → ηγ) has been measured to about 10% accuracy leading to a very accurate determination of the mixing angle and to the most accurate determination of BR(φ → η′γ) to date, BR(φ → η′γ) = (6.8 ± 0.6 ± 0.5) · 10-5
Suspended sediment load studies of the Brazos River between Waco and Richmond, Texas
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Program and abstract volume
No full textThe workshop will focus on why sample return science is important to the future of solar system science and exploration, including the implications for NASA as it plans and implements future missions to a variety of solar system locations.Lunar and Planetary Institute, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Planetary Science Division, Mars Exploration Programconveners Deborah Bass NASA Mars Program Office, David Beaty NASA Mars Program Office, Catharine Conley NASA Planetary Protection, Clive Neal University of Notre Dame, Meenakshi Wadhwa CAPTEM ChairPARTIAL CONTENTS: Curating NASA's Extraterrestrial Samples — Past, Present, and Future / C. Allen, J. Allton, G. Lofgren, K. Righter, and M. Zolensky--Sample Return Missions Where Contamination Issues are Critical: Genesis Mission Approach / J. H. Allton and E. K. Stansbery--Analysis of the End to End Science of the Potential Mars Sample Return Campaign / A. C. Allwood, C. Herd, D. W. Beaty, and E2E-iSAG Team--Sample Return Propulsion Technology Development Under NASA's ISPT Project / D. J. Anderson, J. Dankanich, D. Hahne, E. Pencil, T. Peterson, and M. M. Mun
Second Conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust : July 13-5, 2012, Bozeman, Montana
No full textUnimagined new data have become available, notably in orbital remote sensing of mineralogy, chemistry, topography, and gravity; geochronology; and geochemistry, especially isotopic constraints and the abundances and natures of lunar volatiles. These new data are paralleled by new concepts of solar system science, including the importance and timing of impact events (including the one that formed the Moon) and the nature of the early solar system disk and its dynamical instabilities. In light of these advances in the last 34 years, the time seems right for a synoptic reexamination of the lunar highlands crust.National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA Lunar Science Institute, The Meteoritical Societysponsors National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Universities Space Research Association, Lunar and Planetary Institute, NASA Lunar Science Institute, The Meteoritical Society ; converers Allan Treiman, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Charles Shearer (LEAG), University of New Mexico, Meenakshi Wadhwa (CAPTEM), Arizona State University.PARTIAL CONTENTS: Lunar Highland Analog Rocks in Southern Peninsular India / S. Arivazhagan and S. Anbazhagan -- The Effect of Initial Compensation State on Retention of Superisostasy in Lunar Impact Basins / J. A. Balcerski, S. A. Hauck, and A. J. Dombard -- Chronologic Confusion in the Lunar Highlands / L. E. Borg, A. M. Gaffney, and C. K. Shearer -- Studying Spectral Variability of an Igneous Stratified Complex as a Tool to Map Lunar Highlands / C. Carli, M. Sgavetti, F. Capaccioni, and G. Serventi -- The Distribution and Mineralogy of Anorthosite in the Orientale Basin: New Perspectives from M3 Data / L. C. Cheek, K. L. Donaldson Hanna, C. M. Pieters, J. W. Head, and J. L. Whitten -- Modal Analyses of Apollo Soils by X-Ray Diffraction and Microscopic Spectral Imaging / S. T. Crites, G. J. Taylor, L. M. V. Martel, P. G. Lucey, and D. F. Blake -- Compositional Diversity of Crystalline Plagioclase in the Lunar Highlands / K. L. Donaldson Hanna, C. M. Pieters, B. T. Greenhagen, and L. C. Cheeks -- Reopening a Can of Wormy Intergrowths: A New Look at Chromite Symplectites in Mg-Suite Troctolite 76535 / S. M. Elardo, F. M. McCubbin, and C. K. Shearer -- Lunar Feldspathic Meteorites: Constraints on the Geology of the Lunar Farside Highlands, and the Origin of the Lunar Crust / J. Gross, A. H. Treiman, and C. N. Mercer
Do Labor Intensive Industries Generate Employment? Evidence from firm level survey in India
No full textThis study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in Indias organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms across five sectorsapparel, leather, gems and jewellery, sports goods, and bicycles for 2005-06 an attempt is made to find out the factors which constrain employment generation in labour intensive firms. The study shows several constraints in the path of employment generation in labour intensive sectorsnon-availability of trained skilled workers, infrastructure bottlenecks, low levels of investment, labour rules and regulations, and a noncompetitive export orientation. The study suggests a set of policy initiatives to improve the employment potential of these sectors.Indian Organized Manufacturing, Labor Intensity, Employment Growth, Skilled workforce, Wage Structure, Export status, Machinery Usage, Labor laws, South Asia
Workshop on Formation of the First Solids in the Solar System : November 7-9, 2011, Kauai, Hawai'i
No full textAimed "at understanding the origin and chronology of the first solids in the solar system (calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions, amoeboid olivine aggregates, chondrules, and differentiated asteroids)."sponsors, Lunar and Planetary Institute ... [and others]hosted by Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology [and others] ; conveners, Alexander N. Krot [and others] ; scientific organizing committee, Francis Albarede [and others]PARTIAL CONTENTS: Circumstellar Disk Evolution, Clump Formation, and its Effects on Planet Formation / Basu S., Vorobyov E.I.--Radial Transport and Survival of Refractory Inclusions in the Protoplanetary Disk / Ciesla F.J., Yang L., Boley A.C., Cuzzi J.N.--Absolute Chronology of the First Solids in the Solar System / Bouvier A., Brennecka G.A., Wadhwa M.--The Stable Isotope Case for Supernova Enrichment of the Solar System Birth Environment by Sequential Star Formation / Young E.D., Gounelle M.--Barium, Neodymium, and Samarium Isotopic Composition of CAIs: Nucleosynthetic Anomalies? / Brennecka G.A., Borg L.E., Wadhwa M
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