Equity analysts affiliated with corporate lenders publish superior research on borrowers, consistent with private information sharing within financial institutions. Relative to other analysts, lender-affiliated analysts improve the accuracy of their earnings forecasts after a lending relationship is established, and they are more likely to amend their research on borrowers ahead of revelation o...

A possible sound origin for the photospheric oscillations in the X–ray bursting sources 1608-522 and 2127+119 is suggested. It is shown that standing sound waves in an expanding spherical envelope can have periods very close to the observed ones. The quite large ratio, ∼ 10, of the periods in the two sources is explained in terms of different wave regimes. The relevance of sound oscillations to...

1 HOW THE LOCATION OF ROADS AND PROTECTED AREAS AFFECTS DEFORESTATION IN NORTH THAILAND Maureen Cropper World Bank, MC2-521, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC, 20433. Email [email protected], tel. 202-473-1277, fax 202-522-3230 Jyotsna Puri World Bank, MC2-524, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC, 20433. Email [email protected], tel. 202-458-4799, fax 202-522-3230 Charles Griffiths U.S. EPA,...

The clinical applicability of screening surgically resected nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tumour tissue and serum for activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation is unknown. Furthermore, the comparative accuracy of inexpensive EGFR mutation tests, mutant-enriched (ME)-PCR and high-resolution melt (HRM) has not been determined. Lung tumour DNA from 522 surgically resected sta...

Mechanisms underlying Down syndrome (DS)-related mental retardation (MR) remain poorly understood. In trisomic offspring, non-disjunction may result in the reduction to homozygosity of a susceptibility allele inherited from a heterozygous parent. Accordingly, we sought evidence for allelic non-disjunction in the GluK1 gene that encodes the critical kainite-binding glutamate receptor subunit-5, ...

Received April 25, 2017. Revised June 8, 2017. Accepted June 9, 2017. Correspondence to: Sujeet Gautam Department of Anesthesiology, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Raebareli Road, Lucknow 226014, India Tel: +91-522-2495526, Fax: +91-522-2668017, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution No...

Medical malpractice liability reform is often promoted as a means to increase the labor supply of health care providers and improve access to medical care. Theory suggests, however, that if physicians differ in their malpractice risk, then reforms will tend to attract those physicians with the highest risk. In principle, any association between reforms and overall malpractice risk could be attr...