This paper introduces model specifications that can be used to explain response incentive effects that might occur with discrete response contingent valuation data when follow-up responses are collected. The models allowfor possible random response shocks, structural ships in willingness to pay betweenpayment questionsand heteroskedasticity between and within responses. Three well-known conting...

Thermal expansion of MAX phases along different directions tends to be because the anisotropy hexagonal crystals. Herein, a new Hf2SeC phase was synthesized and confirmed relatively isotropic, coefficients thermal (CTEs) c were determined 9.73 μK−1 10.18 μK−1, respectively. The strong MS bond endowed Hf2SC Zr2SC lower CTEs than those Zr2SeC. relationship between ratio elastic stiffness constant...

The paper explores the effect of technological specialisation on economic growth within a balance-of-payments-constrained growth model. We find that countries that are specialised in fast-growing technologies experience above average rates of growth due to the positive effects on international competitiveness. Moreover, we find that innovation, imitation and investment affect countries’ perform...

Inorganic arsenic is a major environmental contaminant associated with an increased risk of human skin cancer. Arsenic modulates cellular signaling pathways that affect diverse processes such as cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis, including genotoxic damage. The p53 protein plays a central role in mediating stress and DNA damage responses, leading to either growth arrest or apop...

For many years, several studies have been employing lectin from vegetables in order to prove its toxic effect on various cell lines. In this work, we analyzed the cytotoxic, antiproliferative, and post-incubatory effect of pure tepary bean lectins on four lines of malignant cells: C33-A; MCF-7; SKNSH, and SW480. The tests were carried out employing MTT and 3[H]-thymidine assays. The results sho...

The proliferation and differentiation of normal prostate epithelial cells depends upon the action of androgens produced by the testis. Prostate cancers retain the ability to respond to androgens in the initial stages of cancer development, but progressively become independent of exogenous androgens in advanced stages of the disease while maintaining the expression of functional androgen recepto...

The nucleotide sequences of major cytoplasmic tRNA(Asp) from rat liver and rat ascites hepatoma comprise a U32 and C33 next to the anticodon as was confirmed by different procedures. Additionally we identified a tRNA(Asp) with C32 and U33 in a minor proportion. We have shown earlier that the tRNA(Asp) gene is part of a cluster of tRNA genes which is amplified at least ten times in the rat nucle...

Recent evaluations of the impact of Turkish healthcare reforms on the efficiency of public hospitals suffer from simultaneous structural changes in the healthcare sector as well as from lack of data on some of the key ingredients of the reform. In this note, we analyze the major obstacles in a fair evaluation of the efficiency of public hospitals taking Sulku(2011)’s data envelopment analysis a...

We propose a strongly convergent algorithm for finding a common point in the solution set of a class of pseudomonotone equilibrium problems and the set of fixed points of nonexpansive mappings in a real Hilbert space. The proposed algorithm uses only one projection and does not require any Lipschitz condition for the bifunctions. AMS 2010 Mathematics subject classification: 65 K10, 65 K15, 90 C...