Although, we found that securing patents from disclosure to grant works well in Japan, we also found that this has resulted in large and increasing patent related numbers over the last 10 years so that universities may arguably now maintain too many patents with associated large cost commitments.
In any event, such crimes, together with any corruption that may occur in Croatia, are arguably less common than in a number of existing European Union countries.In addition, Slovenia's blockage of Croatia's EU entry negotiations is disgraceful.
This arguably provides a secondary-market check that may be lacking with other structured products.
That, arguably, is a somewhat confusing distinction that may well be lost on the panicking recipients of the letters.
The regulator's focus on value for money arguably caught out a number of housing associations that may have previously been more relaxed in their approach to it.
Although the larger policy issues are arguably most important to address, our findings suggest several smaller steps that may also be helpful.
The short-term (<5 years) benefits of smoking cessation are arguably more difficult to demonstrate because of the possibility that individuals may quit because of health problems that may pre-date a subsequent diagnosis of lung cancer.
Zhang Weiwei, a political scientist and best-selling author, suggested in these pages that "the Communist Party of China may arguably be one of the world's most meritocratic institutions" ("Meritocracy versus democracy," Nov. 10).
"That may mean... things that were arguably not as good anymore for the partner or the developer but that we collectively knew were good for people over the long run".
While we also recognise that torsion stability or combined mechanisms may arguably be more clinically relevant predictors of stability, the magnitude of pull-out forces in our series (between 0.7 kN and 1.6 kN) is comparable to the range of failure values reported in the literature (0.7 kN to 2 kN).
