The transformation of the North American apparel industry: is NAFTA a curse or a blessing?

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The competitiveness of agrifoods in Central American and Caribbean countries in the context of trade liberalization

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Theory and practice of industrial policy: evidence from the Latin American experience

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Estimating the effects of United States food safety and agricultural health standards on agro-food exports from Latin America and the Caribbean

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A comparative study of health care policy in the United States and Canada: what policymakers in Latin America might and might not learn from their neighbors to the North

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Economic growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: growth transitions rather than steady states

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The Latin American development problem

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Hunger and malnutrition in the countries of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS)

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Bond markets for Latin American debt in the 1990s

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Study of the decay Bs0→J/ψf2′(1525) in μ +μ -K +K - final states

We investigate the decay Bs0→J/ψK +K - for invariant masses of the K +K - pair in the range 1.35American Physical Society.

Structural changes and productivity in Latin American industry, 1970-1996

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Dimensional effects on the momentum distribution of bosonic trimer states

The momentum distribution is a powerful probe of strongly interacting systems that are expected to display universal behavior. This is contained in the contact parameters which relate few- and many-body properties. Here we consider a Bose gas in two dimensions and explicitly show that the two-body contact parameter is universal and then demonstrate that the momentum distribution at next-to-leading order has a logarithmic dependence on momentum which is vastly different from the three-dimensional case. Based on this, we propose a scheme for measuring the effective dimensionality of a quantum many-body system by exploiting the functional form of the momentum distribution. © 2013 American Physical Society.

Implications of the shift in United States farm policy

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The external debt of the Latin American countries

También en: Comercio Exterior, México, DF, v. 36, No 5, p. 382, mayo 1986 (78609); y en: U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: The costs of foreign debt for the United States and the Third World, Washington, DC

Dimensionality effects in the local density of states of ferromagnetic hosts probed via STM: Spin-polarized quantum beats and spin filtering

We theoretically investigate the local density of states (LDOS) probed by an STM tip of ferromagnetic metals hosting a single adatom and a subsurface impurity. We model the system via the two-impurity Anderson Hamiltonian. By using the equation of motion with the relevant Green's functions, we derive analytical expressions for the LDOS of two host types: a surface and a quantum wire. The LDOS reveals Friedel-like oscillations and Fano interference as a function of the STM tip position. These oscillations strongly depend on the host dimension. Interestingly, we find that the spin-dependent Fermi wave numbers of the hosts give rise to spin-polarized quantum beats in the LDOS. Although the LDOS for the metallic surface shows a damped beating pattern, it exhibits the opposite behavior in the quantum wire. Due to this absence of damping, the wire operates as a spatially resolved spin filter with a high efficiency. © 2013 American Physical Society.