This paper presents evidence on the contribution of public capital (infrastructure) to aggregate economic performance using panel data for the U.S. states from 1970 to 2005. Attempts to quantify the role of public or government capital in the production of aggregate output have been beset by thorny econometric issues since the early 1990s. We present estimates of the output elasticity of public...

CNS remyelination and functional recovery often occur after experimental demyelination in adult rodents. This has been attributed to the ability of mature oligodendrocytes and/or their precursor cells to divide and regenerate in response to signals in demyelinating lesions. To determine whether oligodendrocyte precursor cells exist in the adult human CNS, we have cultured white matter from pati...

We tested the hypothesis that the neurotransmitter glutamate would influence glial proliferation and differentiation in a cytoarchitecturally intact system. Postnatal day 6 cerebellar slices were maintained in organotypic culture and treated with glutamate receptor agonists or antagonists. After dissociation, cells were stained with antibodies for different oligodendrocyte developmentally regul...

Oligodendrocyte maturation has been defined based on expression of developmentally regulated antigens. However, transitions at early stages of the lineage have not been functionally characterized fully in situ. Combining 2',3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase (CNP)-promoter driven enhanced green fluorescent protein expression and whole-cell capacitance measurements permitted a reliable di...

In this paper, Fe3 O4 @SiO2 core/shell magnetic nanostructure has been synthesized and modified by N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (AEAPTMS). Fe3 O4 @SiO2 was used as a novel adsorbent for separation of hexachloroplatinic acid. X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and FT-IR technique were used to characterize morphologies and surface texturing of these ads...

successful organizations take action to ensure that they have the human resources to meet their current and future business needs. organizations require much greater flexibility to account for individual needs than in the past and have to find new ways to manage resulting challenges. talent management (tm) will play a critical role in this context to help businesses succeed. talent management i...

In the 1920s, Heyting attempted at axiomatizing constructive geometry. Recently, von Plato used di4erent concepts to axiomatize the geometry: he used 14 axioms to describe the axiomatization for apartness geometry. Then he added axioms A1 and A2 to his apartness geometry to get his a8ne geometry, then he added axioms O1, O2, O3 and O4 to the a8ne geometry to get orthogonality. In total, this gi...

The differentiation of bipotential precursors of oligodendrocytes (OL) and type-2 astrocytes (AS) was followed in primary cultures from 8-day postnatal rat cerebellum by labeling the cells with the antibodies LB1 (which binds to the surface disialoganglioside GD3 present in glial precursors, type-2 AS, and immature OL), O4 (a marker of immature and mature OL binding to surface sulfatide), anti-...