Data were recorded in two lines divergently selected for residual feed intake (RFI) for eight generations (G0 to G7). First, an animal mixed model was applied to the full dataset to estimate least square means (LsCG) of contemporary group (CG) effects for average daily gain (ADG, 3189 pigs, 80 CG) and backfat thickness (BFT, 1668 pigs, 44 CG). Second, LsCG were used as covariates in linear mode...

We investigate the importance of trend inflation and the real-activity gap in explaining inflation in G7 countries since 1960. Our analysis is based on a bivariate unobserved components model of inflation and unemployment in which inflation is decomposed into a stochastic trend and a transitory component. As in recent implementations of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve, it is the transitory com...

Mechanistic and therapeutic insights in autoimmune diabetes would benefit from a more complete identification of relevant autoantigens. BDC2.5 TCR transgenic NOD mice express transgenes for TCR Vα1 and Vβ4 chains from the highly diabetogenic BDC2.5 CD4(+) T cell clone, which recognizes pancreatic β cell membrane Ags presented by NOD I-A(g7) MHC class II molecules. The antigenic epitope of BDC2....

The global economy is a complex dynamical system, whose cyclical fluctuations can mainly be characterized by simultaneous recessions or expansions of major economies. Thus, the researches on the synchronization phenomenon are key to understanding and controlling the dynamics of the global economy. Based on a pairwise maximum entropy model, we analyze the business cycle synchronization of the G7...

O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar a relação da estratégia competitiva com os fatores contingenciais sobre o desempenho financeiro de empresas localizadas em países membros do BRICs e G7. A amostra pesquisa composta por 775 (5.425 observações), sendo 172 na China, 33 Índia, 48 Alemanha, 25 no Canadá, 307 nos Estados Unidos América, 169 Japão 21 Reino Unido. Para estimar as relações entre vari...

This article examines the spread of informal practices from G7 to G20, analysing implications G20’s adoption six that have marked as a quintessential governance group. Drawing on archival documents, elite interviews, and embedded participant observation, argument is made are strengths liabilities for G20. Key been central G7’s success do not entail in Furthermore, transpose well into G20 contex...

Background: To evaluate impact of spironolactone (S) on pulmonary toxicity of concomitant use of thoracic radiotherapy (RT) and trastuzumab (T).  Materials and Methods: Eighty rats were divided into eight groups: group (G) 1 was control group; G2, G3 and G4 were RT, S and T groups; G5, G6, G7 and G8 were RT+T, T+S, RT+S and RT+T+S groups respectively. Rats were sacrificed at 6 hour, 21 and 100 ...