a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: H71 H72 C33 Keywords: Tax-spend State and local government Public finance Panel unit root Panel cointegration We reexamine the tax-spending nexus using a panel of 50 US state–local government units between 1963 and 1997. We find that, unlike tax revenues, expenditures adjust to revert back to a long-term equilibrium relationship. The evidence on the sho...

The issues of disparities, regional imbalance development and attempt to reducing development disparities among various regions have been attracted considerable attention among researchers, planners and policy makers. In this regard, this study employs a mathematical programing model for budget resources allocation among Iran provinces in order to development disparities reduction among them. I...

We report here the draft genome sequences of eight bacterial strains of the genera Staphylococcus, Microbacterium, Mycobacterium, Plantibacter, and Pseudomonas. These isolates were obtained from aerosol sampling of bathrooms of five residences in the San Francisco Bay area. Taxonomic classifications as well as the genome sequence and gene annotation of the isolates are described. As part of the...

In standard crosses, some rIIB mutants of T4 phage were found to be susceptible to an extra recombination mechanism to which the other mutants were much less susceptible. The following observations were interpreted as evidence for the mismatch-repair nature of the phenomenon: (1) Marker-dependent recombination generates exclusively double exchanges at both sides of the marker. (2) Marker-depend...

MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES (MAPK) are implicated in the regulation of many cellular processes in cardiac myocytes, including hypertrophy, apoptosis, and excitation-contraction coupling. At least four major subfamilies have been identified in cardiac tissue, including the extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1 and 2, c-Jun-NH2-terminal kinase, “big” MAPK, and p38. In the heart, p38 is ac...

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