Using data covering over 100 birth-cohorts in 32 countries, we examine the shortand long-term effects of economic conditions on mortality. We find that small, but not large, booms increase contemporary mortality. Yet booms from birth to age 25, particularly those during adolescence, lower adult mortality. A simple model can rationalize these findings if economic conditions differentially affect...

In this paper a formal model of the productivity dynamics of manufacturing industries is developed with key features being the absence of optimal decisions and equilibrium coordination, heterogeneity of industries with respect to their innovative ability and cumulativeness of innovations together with the working of spillover effects. From that model the law of motion of the productivity distri...

The crystal structure of DMGO (dimethylglycine oxidase) from Arthrobacter globiformis in complex with folate compounds has revealed a novel THF (tetrahydrofolate)-binding fold [Leys, Basran and Scrutton (2003) EMBO J. 22, 4038-4048]. This fold is widespread among folate-binding proteins. The crystal structures of aminomethyltransferase (T-protein), YgfZ and TrmE all reveal similar THF-binding f...

Article history: Received 9 December 2009 Received in revised form 22 March 2010 Accepted 22 March 2010 Here we propose a design for a novel broadband silicon electro-optic absorption modulator. The device is simply a 100 μm long silicon waveguide with a Schottky diode integrated in it. Modulation is achieved through free-carrier absorption, not interference effects, enabling operation over the...

The paper tests the proposition that money generates value in trade. It examines the data for 5,746 Russian companies for 1997 and finds that money accounts for 24.6 percent of their value-added. The functional form of the return on money in trade is determined to be positive and marginally declining. The paper imputes that Russian GDP lost 8.1 percent in 1997 because of diminished use of money...

Interpretation of a new electron-density map at 3.25-A resolution has led to a somewhat revised model for the free radical (semiquinone) structure of flavodoxin from Clostridium MP. Although the general conformation of the molecule is very similar to that of oxidized Desulfovibrio vulgaris flavodoxin, flavin mononucleotide-protein interactions are not identical in the two flavodoxins. In the Cl...

Many absorption spectroscopy experiments can be regarded as situations Lecture 10 10/22/09 continued from N10 in which a system is subject to an additional term in its Hamiltonian that represents interaction of an external field with the system. For example, one of the main ways in which electromagnetic radiation interacts with matter is through a term in the Hamiltonian that is of the form −E(...

Background: Anthropometry plays an important role in industrial design, clothing design, ergonomics and architecture where statistical data about the distribution of body dimensions in the population are used to optimize products. Changes in lifestyles, nutrition, and ethnic composition of populations lead to changes in the distribution of body dimensions (e.g. the obesity epidemic), and requir...

in order to achieve prolong corneal contact time of norfloxacin(nfx) for treatment of extra ocular diseases, a ph triggered nanoparticulate in situ gelling system was designed to explore dual advantage of nanoparticles and in situ gelling system, for its ocular delivery. nfx loaded nanocarriers were developed by ionotropic gelation technique using chitosan as a matrix forming polymer, cross-lin...