Using a unique district-level panel dataset, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana. To purge potential endogeneity bias underlying relationship, exploit change policy environment Ghanaian to instrument for penetration. We show, first, that switch from compartmentalized universal Ghana has resulted an expansion banks' branch networks, which benef...

Deoxycoformycin in combination with deoxyadenosine was used to purge 6C3HED malignant T cells from murine marrow in vitro. Adenosine deaminase activity of 6C3HED cells was ablated by incubation with 10(-6) mol/L deoxycoformycin (dCF). During a 12-hour incubation with 10(-6) mol/L dCF and 10(-4) mol/L deoxyadenosine, tumor cells sequentially accumulated dATP, became depleted of NAD followed by A...

Hematological malignancies such as leukemias, lymphomas, multiple myeloma (MM), and the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDSs) primarily affect adults and are difficult to treat. For high-risk disease, hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) can be used. However, in the setting of autologous HCT, relapse due to contamination of the autograft with cancer cells remains a major challenge. Ex vivo manip...

Neuroimaging techniques have been useful tools for accurate investigation of brain structure and function in eating disorders. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, single photon emission computed tomography, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and voxel-based morphometry have been the most relevant technologies in this regard. The purpose of this review is...

This paper presents the control of Spark Ignition (SI) Internal Combustion (IC) engine Fuel-to-Air Ratio (FAR) using an adaptive control method of time-delay systems. The objective is to maintain the in-cylinder FAR at a prescribed set point, determined primarily by the state of the Three-Way Catalyst (TWC), so that the pollutants in the exhaust are removed with the highest efficiency. The FAR ...

In this paper, we estimate government purchase multipliers for Japan, following the approach used previously for a panel of OECD countries (Auerbach and Gorodnichenko, 2013). This approach allows multipliers to vary smoothly according to the state of the economy and uses real-time forecast data to purge policy innovations of their predictable components. For a sample period extending from 1960 ...

This paper aims at combining two different approaches [(Skogestad, 2000) and (Baldea and Daoutidis, 2006)] into a method for control structure design for plants with large recycle. The self-optimizing approach (Skogestad, 2000) identifies the variables that must be controlled to achieve acceptable economic operation of the plant, but it gives no information on how fast these variables need to b...

perature 99?F., pulse 100 per minute, respiration 34 per minute, abdomen distended, slight rigidity on the right side about the lumbar and the iliac region, agonizing pain occurring in spasms, and slight tenderness over this area, but nothing suggestive of general peritonitis. No tumour was palpable. The case was regarded as one of acute bacillary dysentery at the time of admission, but one not...

In this paper, we estimate the cross-country spillover effects of government purchases on output for a large number of OECD countries. Following the methodology in Auerbach and Gorodnichenko (2012a, b), we allow these multipliers to vary smoothly according to the state of the economy and use real-time forecast data to purge policy innovations of their predictable components. We also consider th...