This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly available data. We find that fir...

Lupine seeds are a valuable nutritive source for animal feeding, but poultry nutrition, the content in crude fiber and non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) have an antinutritional factor. The aim of this research was to highlight effect partial soybean meal replacement with L. albus enzyme addition laying quail diets on productive performance, digestion, blood biochemical indices egg quality. A tot...

Expanding credit access in developing contexts could help some households while harming others. Microcredit studies show different effects at quantiles of household profit, including negative effects; yet these findings also differ across studies. I develop new Bayesian hierarchical models to aggregate the evidence on distributional for mixture-type outcomes such as profit. Applying them microc...

BACKGROUND 5S ribosomal RNA is the smallest rRNA. Its Watson-Crick helices were identified more than 20 years ago, but the conformations of its loops have long defied analysis. One of the three arms of 5S rRNA, residues 69-106 in Escherichia coli, contains a 14-residue internal loop called loop E. The sequence of loop E is conserved within kingdoms, and is terminated by a pyrimidine-rich loop c...

This paper employs a matched firm production-innovation panel dataset from Chile to explore the response of innovation increased competition arising China shock. The data cover wider range inputs and outputs than previously possible allow generating measures markups efficiency (TFPQ) that correspond closely concepts rents technological leadership envisaged in Schumpeterian literature. Except fo...

We examine the impact of small firms’ external growth strategy on their performance using unique data all French firms that went public between 2006 and 2014. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find conducting acquisitions experience higher profitability than relying other modes. However, observe no effect sales growth. The results are robust to different robustness checks, includin...

BACKGROUND Dendritic cells (DC) are the most potent antigen-presenting cells (APC) and stimulators of T cells. Dendritic cells are also likely to be essential for the initiation of allergic immune responses in the lung. However, there are not many data on the presence of dendritic cells in the airways of patients with atopic asthma and on the effects of corticosteroid-treatment on such dendriti...