Molecular markers of the zebrafish inner nuclear membrane (NEP55) and nuclear lamina (L68) were identified, partially characterized and used to demonstrate that disassembly of the zebrafish nuclear envelope requires sequential phosphorylation events by first PKC, then Cdc2 kinase. NEP55 and L68 are immunologically and functionally related to human LAP2beta and lamin B, respectively. Exposure of...

For a durable consumption good which turns into waste after consumption, the socially optimal durability increases with an increase in the marginal environmental damage. In a laissez-faire equilibrium under perfect competition, producers fail to provide an efficient product design, i.e. durability is inefficiently small, whereas the amount of solid waste is inefficiently large. The market failu...

High degree of interest sensitivity of durable goods is now a stylized fact in the literature of monetary policy. This literature, however, does not provide a clear and consensual explanation for the modalities of this stylized fact. In this paper, two independent empirical models are performed to shed more light on the cross-sectoral impacts of monetary policy. The results of first study indic...

Materials.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Parent races true-breeding.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crosses of Gold and Red. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The exceptional female.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nondisjunction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

The present paper thoroughly explores second-best efficient allocations in an adverse selection insurance economy. We start from a natural extension of the classical model, assuming less than perfect risk perceptions. We propose first and second welfare theorems, by means of which we describe efficiencyenhancing policies. Notions of weak and strong adverse selection are promising for interpreti...

We investigate whether the top management of all legacy U.S. airlines used their quarterly earnings calls as a mode of communication with other airlines to coordinate output reduction (fewer passenger seats) on competitive routes. We build an original and novel dataset on the public communication content from the earnings calls, and use Natural Language Processing techniques from computational ...

We use the Skyrme model to estimate the contribution of the QCD Q-angle to the neutron’s electric dipole moment IV,, and find ‘0, = 2 x lo-l68 e cm. The same method may also be used to estimate the contributions to DD, of higher-dimension CP-violating operators. Submitted to Physics Letters B * Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE-AC03-76SF00515.

An identity links the rate of economic growth, the speed of poverty reduction and changes in the distribution of income during some time period in a given country. A few authors used that identity to understand the causes for observed changes in poverty and to identify the exact role of economic growth in poverty reduction. Yet, many empirical cross-country studies of the relationship between g...