Lastly high exit barriers create chronic overcapacity and the intense rivalry that accompanies that condition. High barriers can be high for three reasons: high investment in fixed cost, the cost of layoffs and continuing to produce a product that looses money. ... Differentiation is the ultimate barrier to entry but Perdue found no problem perfecting it. ... Perdue Farms chicken are known for their broad breast and their golden color. ...

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Since the passage of the Harrison Act in 1914, the federal approach to drug abuse control has included a variety of ways for reducing both the supply of, and demand for, illicit drugs. At first the supply and demand reduction strategies were grounded in the traditional deterrence model: Though leg...

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(Leuven) Investigators are also looking for abnormalities or malfunctions in the blood/brain barrier, a protective membrane that controls the passage of substances from the blood into the central nervous system. It is possible that, in MS, components of the immune system get through the barrier and cause nervous system damage. ...

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(Leuven) Investigators are also looking for abnormalities or malfunctions in the blood/brain barrier, a protective membrane that controls the passage of substances from the blood into the central nervous system. It is possible that, in MS, components of the immune system get through the barrier and cause nervous system damage. ...

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BIOMES OF THE WORLD RATIONALE FOR HIERARCHICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTS Life on Earth is extremely interesting, as most of us already know from television, if not from our own travels, and it becomes more so when each piece of the complex pattern fits understandably into the who...

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Condorcet maintained that those who voted against the rights of others, no matter their religion, color, or sex, should forfeit their own rights. ... "Pregnancy and passing indisposition' were no more a barrier of exercising rights on the part of women that were 'gout and the common cold on the part of men' (2). ...

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If there is no fluorescence recovery, I will conclude that there is some type of barrier to diffusion between the cell body and the stalk. ... Retention of proteins in the stalk can be mediated by at least two mechanisms: a) one or more proteins serve as stalk-anchors via protein-protein interactions or b) a physical barrier (such as a septin ring) prevents diffusion out of the stalk. ...

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From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic Ocean, once a formidable barrier that prevented regular interaction between those peoples inhabiting the four continents it touched, became a commercial highway that integrated the histories of Africa, Europe, and the Americas for the first time. ...

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"Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn't trust the evidence of one's eyes watching the destruction and the misery and death brought by the latest mission of civilization"" (Edward W. Said, Orientalism). The term, "Orientalism," has been...

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The cockpit of an airplane could serve as the conceit for the car's instrument panel; air scoops could be dummied up to conjure the speeds that were then threatening to surpass the sound barrier Think of it: everyman his own fighter pilot. ...

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(Question 1) Juvenile delinquency is a complex social problem that significantly impacts all members and processes of a social structure. Delinquency refers to a set of behaviors that are not in line with the collective practices and/or ethics of the dominant social group. Essentially, these behaviors deviate from societal norms and more specifically they violate established criminal codes and laws. Juvenile delinquency incorporates not only general criminal activity but conduct that is only unlawful for youths such as running away from home and skipping school. Current research into th...

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