We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which husband and wife decide on parental leave allocation time between child rearing labor market. They can choose outside option or cooperate by reaching an agreement specialization specializes raising kids (home production) while works transfers consumption to his wife. The identifiesthree distinct groups couples: Egalitarian couples (...

Using 2000 U.S. Census data we illustrate the importance of accounting for household specialization in lesbian couples when examining the sexual orientation gap in female labor supply. Specifically, we find the labor supply gap is substantially larger between married women and partnered lesbian women who specialize in market production (primary earners) than between married women and partnered ...

Air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) experiments were performed with varied temperature and varied module inclination angles to characterize the effect of module angle on permeate production and thermal performance. While AGMD is potentially one of the most energy efficient membrane distillation configurations, transport resistances in the air gap typically dominate the thermal performance, res...

Connexin43 is a major component of the gap junctions between pigmented and non-pigmented cells of the double-layered epithelium in the ciliary body of the eye. We directly tested the hypothesis that gap junctions play a crucial role in the production of the aqueous humor by inactivating the GJA1 (connexin43) gene in the pigmented epithelium with cre-loxP technology. To accomplish this, we cross...

The design of a 10 cm2 (3.4 cm by 3.4 cm) and 100 (10 anion exchange membrane (AEM) water electrolyser cell for hydrogen production are described. AEM cells based on zero-gap configuration where the is sandwiched between anode cathode so as to minimise voltage drop electrodes. Nonprecious nickel-based metal alloy oxide catalysts were employed. Various experiments carried out understand effects ...

The mechanisms whereby cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) promote axonal growth and synaptic plasticity are poorly understood. Here we show that the neurite outgrowth stimulated by NCAM-mediated fibroblast growth factor (FGF) receptor activation in cerebellar granule cells is associated with increased GAP-43 phosphorylation on serine-41. In contrast, neither NCAM nor FGF was able to stimulate neuri...