This paper examines the impact of floods on firms’ capital accumulation, employment growth and productivity by using a difference-indifference approach and considering firms’ asset structure. We find evidence that after a flooding companies in flooded regions show on average higher growth of total assets and employment than firms in areas not affected by flooding. The positive effect prevails f...

The scope of this study is to unravel possible convergence clubs regarding the occupancy rates hotel industry in US states aftermath first COVID-19 pandemic wave. For reason, underlying paper resorts application generic algorithm developed Phillips and Sul (2007) for a sample 50 over daily period ranging from 01.12.2019 26.07.2020. empirical analysis supports identification two primary consisti...

Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, and Research Director, Health Law Institute, Un ivers ity of Alberta. Colin Feasby, LL.M ., J.S .D. Candid ate, C olum bia U niver sity. W e would like to thank Tracy Bailey and N ina Haw kins for their valuable assistance and the Alberta Heritage Foun dation for M edical Research fo r their continued su pport. See, for example, Canada, Natu...

OBJECTIVES We tested the hypothesis that an abnormal response of plasma endothelin-1 (ET-1) is elicited by handgrip exercise (HG) in young normotensive offspring of hypertensive parents. BACKGROUND It has been hypothesized that ET-1 is involved in blood pressure control and plays a pathophysiologic role in the development of clinical hypertension. METHODS Two groups of healthy male subjects...

A new version of XtalOpt, an evolutionary algorithm for crystal structure prediction, is available for download from the CPC library or the XtalOpt website, http://xtalopt.github.io. XtalOpt is published under the Gnu Public License (GPL), which is an open source license that is recognized by the Open Source Initiative. The new version incorporates many bug-fixes and new features, as detailed b...

BACKGROUND The present study analyzed whether or not the in vitro cultivation for long periods of time of pre-isolated Leishmania amazonensis from lesions of chronically infected BALB/c mice was able to interfere in the parasites' infectivity using in vivo and in vitro experiments. In addition, the proteins that presented a significant decrease or increase in their protein expression content we...

Spatial and temporal variability in precipitation has been dramatically changed due to climate change over the global domain. Increasing extreme events are pronounced various regions, including monsoon Asia (MA) recent decades. The present study evaluated light of intensity, duration, frequency with several indices developed by Expert Team on Climate Change Detection Indices (ETCCDI) MA region....