2-ABSTRACT – This paper examines empirically the short run responsiveness of company performance to ownership and market structures, sector and regional specificity, and varying degrees of soft budget constraints. For a cross-sectional data set of Ukrainian firms, the paper provides evidence that post-privatization governance systems impact significantly on efficiency, notwithstanding the influ...

Purpose: To assess the cross-cultural clinical utility of the Visual Motor Integration (VMI) standardized U.S. norms for typically developing Palestinian, Israeli, and American kindergarten children. The cross-cultural comparisons tested the extent to which the VMI standardized U.S. norms for all three tests (a) are appropriate for use with the aforementioned groups without the need for cross-c...

Permutation entropy is computationally efficient, robust to noise, and effective to measure complexity. We used this technique to quantify the complexity of continuous vital signs recorded from patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Using permutation entropy calculated from early vital signs (initial 10∼20% of patient hospital stay time), we built classifiers to predict in-hospital mortali...

Since the introduction of Computed Tomographic Colonography (CTC), research has mainly focused on visualization and navigation techniques. Recently, efforts have shifted towards computer aided detection (CAD) of polyps. We propose a new approach to CAD in CT images that attempts to model the way a radiologist recognizes a polyp using optical flow fields (OFF). Features extracted from OFFs are u...

Antibodies are a key element in immunoassays They are the driving force behind specificity and sensitivity. Affinity purification of antiserum yields antibodies with the ultimate in specificity and sensitivity. It eliminates all other potentially interfering serum proteins and antibodies that will increase the background and cause cross-reactivity. It leaves behind a population of antibodies th...

Monoclonal antibodies were obtained against Tomato mosaic tobamovirus (ToMV) isolated in Brazil. One antibody (8G7G2) isotyped as IgG2b (κ light chain) showed strong specificity and very low cross reaction with the Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV). It can be used in identification of tomato mosaic virus (ToMV).

A theoretical formulation characterizing the noise performance of strain estimation using envelope signals is presented for the cross-correlation based strain estimator in elastography, using a modified strain filter approach. The strain filter describes the relationship among the elastographic signal-to-noise ratio (SNRe), sensitivity, contrast-to-noise ratio and dynamic range for a given reso...