In both cases, reforms have aided the modernization process of ports, the influx of private capital, the standardization of public-private association, the increase in productivity, and the adoption of technical standards of operation that allow for the delivery of more or less universal port services.
The Ni/CAx catalysts show higher activity than the Ni/α-Al2O3 catalysts in both steam reforming and CO2 and steam mixed reforming of CH4.
Will he bring in meaningful reforms?
While the initiative taken by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on the Libyan and Bahraini issues sets several precedents, it requires additional steps in terms of both reform and dialogue, which the GCC governments state they are open to.
Powerful vested interests in both oppose reform: in Russia, some of the leadership clans and natural resource companies; in China, some sections of the Communist Party and the state-owned enterprises.
One of those is the method that was used in both the reform bill that Romney signed when he was governor of Massachusetts and in Obama's Affordable Care Act: the individual mandate.
In both colonies, reform-minded political leaders, spurred especially in Lower Canada by the rise of a professional middle class (particularly lawyers and journalists), attempted to break the power of the oligarchy.
But sometimes pragmatism lures it into backroom deals with big countries, notably France and Germany, undermining both reform in general and hopes of a break-up of national champions.
The transition of South Africa to full democracy in 1994 introduced fundamental reforms both in broader society and its health system.
We calculated the percentage of patients in each hospital who fell into these coverage groups throughout the study period (in both the pre-reform and post-reform periods), and defined safety net hospitals as those hospitals in the highest quarter.
