I study how industrial development and employment in an emerging economy are affected by urban violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, exploiting plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation homicide rates during the outbreak drug-trade related Mexico, commonly referred as Mexican Drug War, show that a violent environ...

Antipsychotic agents are major drugs for human neuropsychiatric conditions including schizophrenia, mood disorders, Tourette syndrome, and Alzheimer's disease. These drugs are divided in two groups-first-generation/typical and second-generation/atypical-on the basis of their propensity to induce extrapyramidal motor side effects. Furthermore, second-generation antipsychotics have been reported ...

abstract tehran, the largest metropolis of iran, due to specific physical, demographical, social, economical and cultural situations generates larger crime rate than other cities of iran. in central business district of tehran, which sits in the area no.12, and no.11 of tehran municipality, crime occurs more than other part of the city. this paper aimed at identifying the spatial distribution o...

By analyzing and gathering quantitative data, this paper presents the first formal economic analysis of the impacts of the drug trafficking industry in Mexico until 2006. The analysis measures the number of drug-traffic employees, the amount of cash and investments generated by the drug-trafficking industry, the monetary costs of violence and corruption, the estimated losses in foreign investme...

BACKGROUND In contrast to the intense attention devoted to research on intracellular sterol trafficking in animal cells, knowledge about sterol transport in plant cells remains limited, and virtually nothing is known about plant endocytic sterol trafficking. Similar to animals, biosynthetic sterol transport occurs from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) via the Golgi apparatus to the plasma membran...

Recent studies have shown that the microtubule-stabilizing drug paclitaxel, which is commonly used for the treatment of prostate cancer, inhibits signaling from the androgen receptor by inhibiting its nuclear accumulation downstream of microtubule stabilization. This mechanism is independent of paclitaxel-induced mitotic arrest and could provide an alternative mechanism of drug action that can ...

Advanced cyber technology like NSO Group Technologies' (NSO) controversial Pegasus spyware blurs distinctions between “good” and “bad.” This case follows the Israeli-based international leader in espionage developer one of its co-founders, Shalev Hulio from creation 2010 to present. It includes NSO's acquisition by US-based private equity fund Francisco Partners 2014. re-acquisition 2019 co-fou...