Cumby (1996) suggests that (i) deviations from MacParity are stationary, (ii) relative Big Mac prices converge rapidly and (iii) provide significant information on likely future exchange rate movements. This paper examines to what extent these results can be generalised to other micro-level price data such as those provided in the UBS surveys Prices and Earnings round the Globe. In many respect...

The solar radio flux at F10.7 cm and F30 is required by most models characterizing the state of Earth's upper atmosphere, such as thermosphere ionosphere to specify satellite orbits, re-entry services, collision avoidance maneuvers modeling space debris evolution. We develop a method called RESONANCE ("Radio Emissions from Sun: ONline ANalytical Computer-aided Estimator") for prediction 13-mont...

High quality fruits are increasingly demanded along with the need to ensure this attribute to consumers. Thus, this study was aimed at characterizing a melting (‘Elegant Lady’) and a non-melting flesh (‘Carson’) peach (Prunus persica (L.) Batsch) varieties by considering both their bioactive compound contribution and their sensory quality in ripe fruit at harvest and after a prolonged period of...

PURPOSE MET and AXL mediate resistance to EGFR TKI in NSCLC. Foretinib, a MET/RON/AXL/TIE-2/VEGFR kinase inhibitor may overcome EGFR kinase resistance. This dose escalation study combined foretinib and erlotinib in advanced pretreated NSCLC patients. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The primary endpoint was to define the RP2D of foretinib plus erlotinib as continuous oral daily dosing. Secondary objective...

BACKGROUND In adults and children, patient-ventilator synchrony is strongly dependent on both the ventilator settings and interface used in applying positive pressure to the airway. The aim of this bench study was to determine whether different interfaces and ventilator settings may influence patient-ventilator interaction in pediatric models of normal and mixed obstructive and restrictive resp...

CONFLICT OF INTEREST NONE DECLARED Day Hospital is an alternative to inpatient treatment as a transition from hospital to outpatient type of treatment, especially for those patients who cannot quickly return to the family, and patients who are unable to leave the usual social contacts so to them the hospitalization will pose a great mental risk. The aim of the research is to determine the struc...

El objetivo de este artículo consiste en dar a conocer un perfil social, económico y demográfico la población registrada con SISBÉN el Hospital Departamental Psiquiátrico Universitario del Valle (HDPUV) entre 2009 2018, cuyo diagnóstico se encuentra dentro grupo los trastornos humor (correspondiente al espectro códigos CIE-10 que va desde F30 F39, episodio maníaco, trastorno bipolar, depresivo,...

This paper presents three tests of contagion of the US subprime crisis to the European markets of the NYSE-Euronext group. Copula models are used to analyse dependence structures between the US’s and the other markets in the sample, in the pre-crisis and in the subprime crisis periods. The first test assesses the existence of contagion on the relevant markets’ indices, the second checks the hom...

Studies of foreign direct investment (FDI) distribution in the US is voluminous but such studies on a developing country are rare. We fill the void by analyzing the spatial and temporal variation in FDI among China’s 30 provinces. We believe this is the first study of its kind. Other than some “standard” results, our pooled regression finds that the cumulative FDI has a negative impact on the n...