Apelin is the peptidic ligand for the G-protein-coupled receptor APJ. The apelin-APJ system is important in cardiovascular regulation, fluid homeostasis, and angiogenesis, among other roles. In this study, we investigate interactions between apelin and membrane-mimetic micelles of the detergents sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), dodecylphosphocholine (DPC), and 1-palmitoyl-2-hydroxy-sn-glycero-3-[p...

This paper examines the impact of access to international agro-manufacture markets on poverty in Argentina. Measures of international market access, such as cuts in tariffs and abolition of non-tariff measures, can be approximated by changes in the price of key exportable goods. Estimates from the related literature suggest that expanded market access would cause the international price of Arge...

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This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR period and the years since independence revealed that unlike its close neighbors (the Baltic States a...

Obstfeld and Rogoff (2001) propose that trade frictions lie behind key puzzles in international macroeconomics. We take a dynamic multicountry model of international trade, production, and investment to data from 19 countries to assess this proposition quantitatively. Using the framework developed in Eaton, Kortum, Neiman, and Romalis (2016), we revisit the puzzles in a counterfactual world wit...

In Uruguay, the mortality of dairy calves due to infectious diseases is high. Escherichia coli a natural inhabitant intestinal microbiota, but can cause several infections. The aim work was characterize E. isolates from and extraintestinal origin dead newborn calves. Using PCR, virulence gene characteristics pathogenic were searched. molecularly characterized phylogroup, serogroup Stx subtype d...

This research investigates small-scale tectonic activity in the Jiujing region Beishan, northwest China through application of persistent scatterer (PS) Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR). PS InSAR is an effective monitoring tool this unpopulated, arid, and unvegetated rural area, whose surface geology dominated by a single large granitic intrusion, which represents candidate site...

CGE models are utilized for the evaluation of trade policy reforms, yet they are typically highly aggregated, limiting their usefulness to trade negotiators interested in impacts at the tariff line. Partial Equilibrium (PE) models used for disaggregate analysis lack the benefits of an economy-wide analysis required to examine the overall impact of trade policy reforms. This suggests the need fo...

Zuo Z.Y., Li X.N., Xu C., Yang J.J., Zhu X.C., Liu S.Q., Song F.B., Liu F.L., Mao H.P. (2017): Responses of barley Albina and Xantha mutants deficient in magnesium chelatase to soil salinity. Plant Soil Environ., 63: 348–354. Soil salinity reduces the plant growth and grain yield in barley. The barley mutants Albina and Xantha, deficient in magnesium chelatase, represent a suitable model object...

In this paper the authors develop an innovative 21 sector computable general equilibrium model of Armenia to assess the impact on Armenia of a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with the EU, as well as further regional or multilateral trade policy commitments. The authors find that a DCFTA with the EU will likely result in substantial gains to Armenia, but they show that the ga...