The amino acid sequence of the rat 60 S ribosomal subunit protein L23a was deduced from the sequence of nucleotides in a recombinant cDNA. Ribosomal protein L23a has 156 amino acids and a molecular weight of 17,684. Hybridization of the L23a cDNA to digests of nuclear DNA suggests that there are 18-20 copies of the L23a gene. The mRNA for the protein is about 600 nucleotides in length. Rat L23a...

A popular perception of the US economy is that small businesses create most of the private sector jobs. However, recent work showed that firm age is a more important determinant of job creation than firm size (Haltiwanger, Jarmin, & Miranda, 2013). The authors show that young firms and start-ups contribute more to job creation in the US economy than do small firms. However, young firms and star...

High-speed steel (HSS) tools are the most commonly used tools in small and medium-scale industry. Cryogenic treatment can be used to enhance the tool life. Studies on cryogenically treated (CT) cutting tools show micro structural changes in the material that can influence the life of the tools significantly. This paper primarily reports performance of CT HSS tools as compared to untreated (UT) ...

Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) a...

Short-segment instrumentation for spine fractures is threatened by relatively high failure rates. Failure of the spinal pedicle screws including breakage and loosening may jeopardize the fixation integrity and lead to treatment failure. Two important design objectives, bending strength and pullout strength, may conflict with each other and warrant a multiobjective optimization study. In the pre...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically assess the relationship existing between local financial development and the growth of firms, with a special focus on cooperatives. More in detail, the interest is in investigating whether local banking development impacts differently on the growth of cooperative firms, as compared to partnerships and corporations. To pursue this aim, using Italian da...

There is a popular belief that Chinese imports have devastated US and European manufacturing and contributed to rising inequality. Somewhat paradoxically, the consensus amongst empirical economists is that trade has not been a major cause of rising wage inequality (although this is largely based on datasets predating China’s rise). We argue that both views have underestimated the positive impac...