We develop a theoretical model in which firms are either private or state-owned. When firms become insolvent, the government can intervene with general measures, like subsidies, or by nationalizing firms. The government only intervenes when the bankruptcy of a firm entails social costs. In a stylized model, we analyze how government interventions affect allocative and productive efficiency. Nat...

The dimerization processes of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) types 1 and 2 reverse transcriptase (RTs) from their subunits have been investigated using a number of complementary approaches (fluorescence spectroscopy, size exclusion-HPLC and polymerase activity assay). The formation of the native heterodimeric form of HIV-1 and HIV-2 RT occurs in a two step process. The first step is a c...

This work was designed to characterize the HIV viral antibodies in HIV infected and non-HIV infected HBsAg seropositive patients. Fifty non HIV infected (male = 25; female = 25)and 50 HIV infected HBsAg seropositive patients (male – n = 25; female – n = 25) aged 6 – 64 years recruited from the medical outpatient department of Baptist Medical Centre, Saki – Oyo State – Nigeria were investigated ...

Osteoarthritis is a common subtype of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) among older adults. It associated with increased swelling, inflammation, decreased range motion, and joint instability significant implications on health-related quality life (HRQoL). This study compared HRQoL patients osteoarthritis other types MSDs. The nationally representative sample was selected from the 2011-2019 Medical...

CD8+ T cells are thought to play an important role in protective immunity to tuberculosis. The major histocompatibility complex class I subtype HLA-A*0201 is one of the most prevalent class I alleles, with a frequency of over 30% in most populations. HLA-A*0201 transgenic, H-2Db/mouse beta2-microglobulin double-knockout mice (HHD) which express human HLA-A*0201 but no mouse class I, was shown t...

Abstract Spindle cell melanoma (SCM) is a rare morphological subtype of melanoma, characterized histologically by atypical, spindled, malignant melanocytes (Weissinger SE, Keil P, Silvers DN et al. A diagnostic algorithm to distinguish desmoplastic from spindle melanoma. Mod Pathol 2014; 27:524–34). SCM often manifests as broad metastatic illness, frequently amelanotic and can arise nearly anyw...

Nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI) are a group of small hydrophobic compounds with diverse structures that specifically inhibit HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT). NNRTIs interact with HIV-1 RT by binding to a single site on the p66 subunit of the p66/p51 heterodimeric enzyme, termed the NNRTI-binding pocket (NNRTI-BP). This binding interaction results in both short-range and ...