This paper examines the relationship between debt contract and the process of resolving financial distress, through either debt restructuring or bankruptcy procedure. It effectively justifies the popularity of the standard debt contract by demonstrating that the standard debt contract is the optimal debt contract for small business with the costly random verification scheme. Although this resul...

The glycine site (MRZ 2/570 and L-701,324), and uncompetitive (MRZ 2/579) NMDA receptor antagonists inhibited morphine-produced behaviors related to drug-abuse. The expression of morphine dependence was blocked by pretreatment with all three compounds (3–7.5 mg/kg); the effects of glycine/NMDA antagonists were not dose-dependent. Mice which were morphine-free for 3 days still displayed a signif...

BACKGROUND The categories of recognized transferable quinolone resistance determinants have been increasing sharply. The rapid horizontal transfer of these quinolone resistance genes has caused concern since they bring new dissemination possibilities for quinolone resistance. METHODS In total, 579 clinical Escherichia coli isolates were subjected to antimicrobial susceptibility testing, scree...

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Discovery Medicine, Volume 9, number 49, Pages 579-587, June 2010 Abstract: Over fifty years ago the discovery that rats would work to electrically stimulate their brains suggested the intriguing possibility that bliss could be achieved through the use of ‘pleasure electrodes’ implanted deep within the brain. Subsequent research has failed to bring about this brave new world of boundless pleasu...

Neuronal cell death in a number of neurological disorders is associated with aberrant mitochondrial dynamics and mitochondrial degeneration. However, the triggers for this mitochondrial dysregulation are not known. Here we show excessive mitochondrial fission and mitochondrial structural disarray in brains of hypertensive rats with hypertension-induced brain injury (encephalopathy). We found th...

In a general equilibrium product-cycle model, lower trade barriers increase Southern purchasing power, which lifts long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional trapped factor effect. Starting from a baseline OECD growth rate of 2% we fi...

The -149C>T and -579G>T, 2 single nucleotide polymorphisms in de novo methyltransferase 3B gene promoter, have been previously reported to potentially alter the promoter activity and to influence cancer risk. However, the results from previous studies remain conflicting rather than conclusive. In view of this, we conducted a case-control study and then a meta-analysis to examine the association...

Electrospun polycaprolacyone/polymethacrylic acid graft copolymer nanofibers (PCL/MAA) containing silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized for effective wound disinfection. Surface morphology, AgNPs content, water uptake of electrospun PCL/MAA graft copolymer nanofibers without and with AgNPs, and levels of AgNPs leaching from the nanofibers in water as well as antimicrobial efficacy were ...

In the ongoing debate over the social benefits and costs of gentrification, one of the key questions left largely unaddressed by the empirical literature is the degree to which gentrification impacts local labor markets. This paper begins by exploring the nature of employment change in one archetypical gentrifying neighborhood—Chicago’s Wicker Park—to motivate the central hypothesis that gentri...