We propose a multiscale correlation contagion statistic to test for stock market contagion during the global financial crisis (GFC) from the US to the other six G7 and BRIC countries. We find that cross-market correlations between the US and selected countries are conditional on the time scale. Stock market contagion during the GFC is dependent on both the recipient country and the time scale, ...

A series of 43 traumatic head impact experiments on non-human primates carried out in the past were simulated with a validated finite element model of the specimens. From these simulations, brain tissue response and head accelerations were extracted. Based on these accelerations, existing global head injury criteria (HIC, BRIC, GAMBIT and RIC) were calculated. Correlation between the local brai...

 Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a heterogeneous group of autosomal recessive cholestatic diseases of childhood and represents the main indication for liver transplantation at this age; PFIC2 involves ABCB11 gene, that encodes the ATPdependent canalicular bile salt export pump (BSEP). Benign intrahepatic cholestasis (BRIC) identifies a group of diseases involving the sam...

Serial homologs are similar structures that develop at different positions within a body plan. These structures share some, but not all, aspects of developmental patterning, and their evolution is thought to be constrained by shared, pleiotropic gene functions. Here we describe the functions of 17 developmental genes during metamorphic development of the legs in the red flour beetle, Tribolium ...

54 Generally, a fractal most often referred to as “a rough shape that can be subdivided in parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole.” The father of fractal geometry Benoît Mandelbrot formulated this term in 1975. A fractal has a complicated shape. Certain features characterize a graphical representation of the fractal by mathematical equation: it is self...

the Hilton Tokyo Bay from 14 to 16 November 2011. Th e hotel is a short distance from Tokyo Disneyland and, for most guests, the mice were of the cartoon variety that descended from Steamboat Willie. Now known as Mickey Mouse, Steamboat Willie was the brilliant product of Walt Disney’s imagination. Not surprisingly, more than a few children cavorting in the hotel lobby wore the iconic black ear...