We investigate whether corruption in host countries drives the different routes of Chinese economic engagement with Africa. Using data from 49 African for 2000–2018, we find that affects each route China’s Africa differently. Corruption is significantly negatively associated FDI China, but positive both trade and construction. These relationships are moderated by availability natural resources ...

Gravity modelling has been used extensively in analysing trade flows but less so for crossborder investment. Recent theoretical work provides an underpinning for applications to FDI. In this paper we estimate a gravity model to evaluate the potential for increased FDI for a sample of Eastern European countries, following accession to the EU. Preliminary results suggest limited potential in manu...

We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from services inputs. Moreover, we examine whether the impact on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a multinational. Our results...

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate that of domestic exporters and non-exporters, while we do not find clear differences in plant performan...

There exist polynomial identities asociated to normal form, which yield an existence and uniqueness theorem. The space of normalized real hypersurfaces has a natural group action. Umbilic point is defined via normal form. A nondegenerate analytic real hypersurface is locally biholomorphic to a real hyperquadric if and only if every point of the real hypersurface is umbilic. 0. Introduction An a...

Actinonin, an antibiotic and CD13/aminopeptidase N (APN) inhibitor, has been shown to be cytotoxic to tumor cell lines in vitro. We investigated the antiproliferative effects of actinonin on human and murine leukemia and lymphoma cells. Actinonin inhibited growth of NB4 and HL60 human cell lines and AKR mouse leukemia cells in vitro with an IC50 of about 2-5 micrograms/ml. The inhibitory effect...

We present a proof of the existence and uniqueness theorem of a normalizing biholomorphic mapping to Chern-Moser normal form. The explicit form of the equation of a chain on a real hyperquadric is obtained. There exists a family of normal forms of real hypersurfaces including Chern-Moser normal form. 0. Introduction Let M be an analytic real hypersurface with nondegenerate Levi form in a comple...

A human acute myeloid leukemia model has been developed by i.v. transplantation of HL-60 myeloid leukemia cells into Swiss nude mice pretreated with cyclophosphamide. HL-60 cells disseminated into hematopoietic tissues as determined by flow cytometric analysis, fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis, and colony formation assay. Passive immunotherapy using murine an...

We investigated the effect of high fat and nutrient depleted diets on the formation of colon tumors in female Swiss mice treated with 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH). Mice received the following diets: control diet (laboratory chow, 5.5% fat) or chow with added starch and/or corn oil so as to supply a fat level of 5.5% (diet F6) or 23% (diet F23), while reducing the level of nutrients and dietary f...