When unemployment arises, a country often imposes an import tariff since it supposedly expands the market share of domestic firms and encourages them to hire more workers. However, such a policy improves the current account and hence appreciates the home currency. Consequently, home products lose competitiveness against foreign products and eventually employment decreases, contrary to the prior...

The paper models the policy challenges facing globalizing developing countries. Models from the pure theory of international trade, the small open economy model, growth accounting, the SolowSwan model, the gravity model, models of portfolio diversification and currency crises models are reviewed to distil policy guidelines to promote the globalization of developing countries. The overriding obj...

From an information-theoretical point of view the write once memory (WOM), the unidirectional memory (WUM), the write isolated memory (WIM), the memory with address faults (MAF), Blackwell’s broadcast channel, and some other constrained memories and channels with an informed encoder can be considered as particular cases of the general defective channel (GDC) introduced by Kuznetsov as a general...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery fistula (CAF) is a rare anomaly. Transcatheter CAF closure has been introduced using various materials, but only few data are available on the Guglielmi detachable coil (GDC). The advantage of using GDC for transcatheter CAF closure is more controllable, therefore much safer when compared to other coils. This report is about our experience in transcatheter closure of ...

2-Chloro-N-(4-chloro-3-(pyridin-2-yl)-phenyl)-4-(methylsulfonyl)-benzamide (GDC-0449, vismodegib) is a potent and selective first-in-class small-molecule inhibitor of the Hedgehog signaling pathway and is currently in clinical development. In this study, we investigated the metabolic fate and disposition of GDC-0449 in rats and dogs after a single oral administration of [¹⁴C]GDC-0449. An averag...

In this work a formalism named Differential Hybrid Petri Nets to model and simulate hybrid systems is presented. It is based on the main elements of the semantics of the hybrid automaton and the modeling power of Petri nets. Considering that Wireless Sensor Networks are hybrid systems, this formalism is applied to model a Dynamic Power Management technique based on battery Capacity (GDC). There...

Ethylene oxide (EO) is industrially produced by epoxidation of ethylene on Ag-based heterogeneous catalysts. Electrophilic oxygen species are assumed to be active key in the EO production. This study explores possibility electrochemically these a solid electrochemical cell. Two series Ag based cermet electrodes were prepared either with Yttria Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ), pure ionic conductor, or...

Victoria blight of oats is caused by the fungus Cochliobolus victoriae. This fungus is pathogenic due to its ability to produce the host-selective toxin victorin. We previously identified a 100-kD protein that binds victorin in vivo only in susceptible genotypes and a 15-kD protein that binds victorin in vivo in both susceptible and resistant genotypes. Recently, we determined that the oat 100-...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Guglielmi detachable coils (GDC) used in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms do not always completely occlude the aneurysm. Thus, after an acute subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), there is a theoretical risk of rebleeding from coiled aneurysms, especially when blood pressure is elevated. The aim of this study is to determine whether use of hemodynamic augmentation (HA) to...

Saccharomyces cerevisiae can grow on glycine as sole nitrogen source and can convert glycine to serine via the reaction catalyzed by the glycine decarboxylase multienzyme complex (GDC). Yeast strains with mutations in the single gene for lipoamide dehydrogenase (lpd1) lack GDC activity, as well as the other three 2-oxoacid dehydrogenases dependent on this enzyme. The LPD1 gene product is also r...