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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Fta"”.
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Potential economic implications of a U.S. – ASEAN FTA on agriculture
… The implementation of a free trade agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and ASEAN has the potential to reduce or eliminate tariffs on agricultural commodities. This research employs a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to simulate the economic implications of agricultural trade …
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The impact of the FTA on the Canadian manufacturing industry.
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A Comparative Analysis of Free Trade Between the U.S. and the EU : A Case Study of the U.S./Chile FTA and the EU/Chile FTA
… assess the impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs), this thesis is a study of the negotiated outcomes in FTAs between the United States (U.S.) and Chile, and the European Union (EU) and Chile. Existing negotiation literature pertains to multilateral trade talks, dispute settlements or …
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The U.S. - Colombia free trade agreement - A historical placement of the FTA
There is a pending free trade agreement (FTA) between the United States (U.S.) and Colombia in U.S. Congress. The FTA aims to promote regional economic prosperity. This FTA should be redone as it will not achieve either of these goals. The FTA will cause an increase in drug production, violence, …
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Validating FTA card skin swabs as a source of DNA from wild amphibians
… skin swabs with commercially available Whatman FTA cards, a relatively uninvasive technique, can yield DNA samples of sufficient quality and quantity for PCR amplification. In total, swabs from 22 individual great crested newts (Triturus cristatus, the most endangered newt in the UK and an …
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Blood on FTA™ Paper: Does Punch Location Affect the Quality of a Forensic DNA Profile?
… the costs of properly storing the samples. FTA™ paper was created to fulfill the need for inexpensive, low maintenance, long term storage of biological samples, which makes it ideal for use with convicted offender DNA samples. FTA™ paper is a commercially produced, chemically treated paper …
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Namibia and SADC free trade area : maximising export opportunities?
… the Protocol is to establish a free trade area (FTA). The SADC FTA was formally launched in August 2008, when twelve SADC Member States phased out their tariffs covering substantial all intra-SADC trade. Namibia has been part of the SADC FTA since its inception. This research study examines the …
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Access to new markets and the impact of bilateral trade agreements on local agricultural economies: evidence from the Colombia-South Korea FTA
El acceso a mercados internacionales previamente cerrados puede beneficiar a los productores de una economía con ventajas comparativas en los sectores liberalizados. Este artículo estima el impacto de los acuerdos comerciales bilaterales entre países con estructuras productivas complementarias …
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THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN RECEIVING A MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS AND FIRST TERM ATTRITION (FTA) IN U.S. NAVY SAILORS: A 10-YEAR PANEL STUDY
First-term attrition (FTA)—separation before completing an initial service obligation—imposes readiness and training costs on the U.S. Navy. This thesis tests whether documented mental health diagnoses are associated with FTA among first-term sailors. Using the Person-Event Data Environment …
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Investigation into the genetic variation of Toll-Like Receptor 9 in cattle using both Sanger and next-generation sequencing from FTA-Cards
… Nigeria and the samples were stored on Whatman FTA cards. In this study bovine genomic DNA was extracted from the FTA cards using three different approaches: 5% Chelex resin, the REPLI-g Mini (Qiagen) and the DNeasy Blood & Tissue Kit (Qiagen). The most efficient method for DNA extraction was …
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Impacto del TLC Perú – China en las exportaciones peruanas de harina de pescado a China durante el 2004 al 2016
… impact of the Peru – China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) on peruvian fishmeal exports, although all FTAs seek to strengthen trade flows between two countries – or a set of them – not necessarily both parties share the benefits equally. The research also focuses on studying six years before and after …
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Use of an 18s rRNA metagenomics approach as a method of detection of multiple infections in field blood samples collected on FTA cards from cattle
… of samples. The use of technologies such as FTA cards, that fix and store nucleic acids direct from tissues, have transformed the collection of field samples for PCR. However, samples from FTA cards have yet to be used for multiple diseases identification. The majority of studies look to …
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Analysis of the proposed China-Asean free trade area: A gravity model and RCAI approach
The China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has been hailed as a Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) with great trade potential despite critics comment of there not been enough complementarities in the production processes of the integrating member countries. That there are two opposing views to the FTA …
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Why Renegotiation?: Renewal of the South Korea-Chile Bilateral Free Trade Agreement
… behind the bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) renegotiation between Chile and South Korea. Existing studies have examined the reasons and outcomes of creating the initial Chile-South Korea FTA, but they have not focused on renegotiations between the two countries. A few investigations on …
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Essays in international trade, political economy of protection and firm heterogeneity
… which is a member of a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). They rely on a monopolistically competitive political economy model in which the government determines external tariffs endogenously. In the first paper the effect of foreign lobbying under the FTA is examined empirically using Canadian …
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Economic Impacts of the Free Trade Agreement Between the European Union and Colombia
… and social effects of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed in 2012 by the European Union (EU) and Colombia. The EU - Colombia FTA is a multilateral and intra-regional trade agreement, where the developed region is represented by the EU-28 countries, and the developing region is represented by …
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UAS Risk Analysis using Bayesian Belief Networks: An Application to the VirginiaTech ESPAARO
… method of expanding on the Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) method to a Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) model. FTA is demonstrated to be a special case of BBN and BBN can allow for more complex interactions between nodes than is allowed by FTA. A model can be investigated to determine the components to …
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Regional and interregional economic effects of the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada
Even before the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and Canada came into force on January 1, 1989, a substantial body of literature had been assembled on the future agreement and its likely economic effects on both countries. Despite the large number of studies in both countries, there had …
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Multi-state system in a fault tree analsis of a nuclear based thermochemical hydrogen plant
… and systematic tool, fault tree analysis (FTA) is adapted to the particular needs of the Cu-Cl system. This thesis develops a new method that combines FTA with a reliability analysis tool, multi-state system (MSS), to improve the accuracy of FTA and also improve system reliability.
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