1 1 2 3 4 5 6 Distinctive receptive field and physiological properties of a wide-field amacrine cell in the macaque 7 monkey retina 8 9 10 Michael B. Manookin, Christian Puller, Fred Rieke, Jay Neitz, Maureen Neitz 11 Department of Ophthalmology, Physiology and Biophysics Department, HHMI, University of 12 Washington, Seattle, WA 98109 13 14 Corresponding authors: Michael B. Manookin (manookin@...

The composition of capital in ows to emerging market economies tends to follow a predictable dynamic pattern across the business cycle. In most emerging market economies, total in ows are pro-cyclical, with debt and portfolio equity owing in rst, followed later in the expansion by foreign direct investment (FDI). To understand the dynamic composition of these ows, we use a small open economy (S...

Studying physicians in training, I investigate how uncertainty and tacit knowledge may give rise to significant practice variation. Consistent with tacit knowledge accruing only with experience, and empirically exploiting a discontinuity in the formation of teams, experience relative to a peer substantially increases the size of variation attributable to the physician trainees. Among the same p...

This paper extends the model of Engler et al. (2007) on the adjustment of the US current account to a three-country world economy. This allows an analysis of the differential impact of a reversal of the US current account on Europe and Asia. In particular, the outcomes under different exchange rate policies are analysed. The main nding is that large factor re-allocations from non-tradables to t...

Older adults experience speech perception difficulties that are not explained by audiometric thresholds. One hypothesis is that temporal processing deficits contribute to speech-in-noise difficulties. To test this, threshold for mistuning was measured for a component within a complex of unresolved harmonics a cue that likely depends on sensitivity to envelope perturbations. The complex comprise...

The article examines the question of whether the current account deficits seen in selected transition economies in recent years mainly as a symptom of the dynamic economic activity of the catching-up process are a source of potential macroeconomic destabilisation. Given the possible significant reduction of capital flows, as well as restrictions and lessons from recent financial crises, current...

Sudden stops, or large reversals in capital inflows, have been linked to a number of financial crises in emerging market countries. Given their potentially devastating consequences, academics and policymakers have placed great emphasis on analyzing the causes of financial vulnerability. This task has become even more important with increasing financial globalization. A large literature has deve...

The essential oils from two native species from Guatemala were studied for their chemical composition and the dichloromethane and methanol extracts for their biological activity. A GC-MS analysis of the essential oil from Piper jacquemontianum Kunth, Piperaceae, showed 34 constituents, consisting mainly of linalool (69.4%), while Piper variabile C. DC. essential oil had 36 constituents, camphor...

This paper examines the impact of the volatility of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small firms. Utilizing a dataset of over 195,000 firm-year observations across 53 countries, I examine the impact of foreign portfolio investment instability on capital issuance and firm growth across countries and firm characteristics, in particular size. After controlling for the e...

Sarvepalli and Klappenecker showed how to use classical one-point codes on the Hermitian curve to construct symmetric quantum codes. For the said curve, Homma and Kim determined the parameters of a larger family of codes, the two-point codes. For the Suzuki curve, the bound due to Duursma and Kirov gave the exact minimum distance of Suzuki two-point codes over F8 and F32. Of more recent develop...