This study examines the impact of globalization on cross-country inequality and poverty using a panel data set for 65 developing counties, over the period 1970-2008. The role of globalisation in increasing inequality in economies with financial markets imperfections has been highlighted in the theoretical literature but has not been systemically tested empirically. We provide a first pass at te...

We describe main models and results of a new branch of the queueing theory, theory of retrial queues, which is characterized by the following basic assumption: a customer who cannot get service (due to finite capacity of the system, balking, impatience, etc.) leaves the service area, but after some random delay returns to the system again. Emphasis is done on comparison with standard queues wit...

The global expansion of access to higher education has increased demand for information on academic quality and has led to the development of university ranking systems or league tables in many countries of the world. A recent UNESCO/CEPES Conference on higher education indicators concluded that cross-national research on these ranking systems could make an important contribution to improving t...

This document is the supplemental file for the manuscript entitled ”Modeling synthetic lethality” by LeMeur and Gentleman. This document is divided in 2 sections: data sources and results. In the first section we detail the data sources used in the main manuscript and present the data used for the additional analysis performed in a matter of comparison with the results presented in the main pap...