On November 28, 2009, as part of events marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the disaster at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, gas survivors protested the contents of the report prepared by government scientists that mocked their complaints about contamination. The survivors shifted from the scientific document to a mediated lunch invitation performance, purporting to serve the same chemica...

This paper derives analytically consumption and asset profiles when there are employment and unemployment risks and moral hazard. Without perfect insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment contracts that offer severance compensation smooth consumption during employment without causing moral hazard. A pre-announced delay in separation when th...

A microbial biosensor for rapid, sensitive, selective, and cost-effective determination of the total content of organophosphorus nerve agents with p-nitrophenyl substituent is reported. The biosensor consisted of genetically engineered PNP-degrader Pseudomonas putida JS444 expressing organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH) on its cell surface immobilized on a dissolved oxygen electrode. Surface-expres...

I study the exchange rate disconnect puzzle in a two-country DSGE framework that features a financial intermediation sector. An intermediary is subject to two types of financing constraints: 1. a segmented deposit market restricted to local households, and 2. a balance-sheet constraint. These two constraints drive a wedge between marginal decisions of home and foreign intermediaries, which in t...

experiments were carried out in a commercial orchard during 1994, 1995 and 1996 to determine the influence of chemical thinning on characterisics of fruit and alternate bearing of native olive (olea europea l) cvs. dezfoul and fishomi at early fruitlet stage. in 1994, branch sprays of naphthalene acetic acid (100, 150 and 200 mg/l), naphthalene acetamide (200 and 300 mg/l) and urea (0.6 and 1.2...