In this paper we construct a standard CGE model to explore the impact of scaling up infrastructure in an African country. As the debate on the importance of scaling up infrastructure to stimulate growth and provide a push to African economies, some analyst raise concern on financing these infrastructures after construction and that external funding of these can create major distortion and have ...

For many tasks involving communication between huivans and computers it is necessary for the machine to produce as well as understand natural language. We describe an implemented system which generates English sentences from Conceptual Dependency networks, which are unambiguDus. language-free representations of meaning. The system is designed to be task independent and thus capable of providing...

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has been associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity. Our results are robust to using vari...

Epidemiologic studies have implicated estrogenic exposure as well as human papilloma virus (HPV) infection in cervical carcinogenesis, and some studies have suggested that estrogen and HPV may play synergistic roles in cervical tumorigenesis. In this study, we report a novel finding that f35% of cervical carcinomas tested (n = 19) express aromatase, the enzyme responsible for converting androge...

BACKGROUND Adenovirus vectors have been utilized for a variety of cancer gene therapy. The present study examined the oncolytic effect of adenovirus type 5 (Ad5) and fiber-substituted conditionally replicating adenovirus (CRAD) Ad5/F35 vectors on human lung cancer A549 cells (an epithelial adenocarcinoma cell line), SBC-3 cells (a small-cell cancer cell line), and Lu-65 cells (a giant-cell lung...

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital mobility on entrepreneurial activity have received little attention in the literature albeit the ambiguous theoretical predictions a...

This paper presents a novel method for designing compact yet efficient hardware implementations of the Tate pairing over supersingular curves in small characteristic. Since such curves are usually restricted to lower levels of security because of their bounded embedding degree, aiming for the recommended security of 128 bits implies considering them over very large finite fields. We however man...

in this paper, we first review shortly movements in international monetary system and various theories of capital flows including portfolio and balance of payments approaches. then, we will focus particularly on feldstein- horioka (f-h) approach by which capital mobility is analyzed for 16 developing countries over 1980-2003 through a panel data method. the main objective of this paper is thus ...