Whether inflation and output respond symmetrically or asymmetrically to the same size of contractionary expansionary monetary policy shock has important implications. This paper shows presence asymmetric responses in Armenian positive negative shocks by employing econometric models. Contractionary decreases less than increases it. Output reacts opposite way. An estimated small open economy DSGE...

o bjectives: this study sought to assess distal and lateral forces and moments of asymmetric headgears by variable outer bow lengths. materials and methods : four 3d finite element method (fem) models of a cer- vical headgear attached to the maxillary first molars were designed in solidworks2010 software and transferred to ansys workbench ver. 11 software. modelscontained the first molars, thei...

The goal of this paper is to replicate and extend the connectionist model presented by Mareschal and French (1997) as an account of 'the particularities of [...] infant memory and categorization'. With infants, the sequential presentation of cats followed by dogs yields an expected increase in infants' looking time, whereas the reversed presentation order does not. This intriguing asymmetry of ...

Atherosclerotic coronary heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries, and endothelial dysfunction is considered a precursor phenomenon. The nitric oxide produced by the endothelium under the action of endothelial nitric oxide synthase has important antiatherogenic functions. Its reduced bioavailabilty is the beginning of the atherosclerotic process....

Article history: In Caenorhabditis elegans, W Received for publication 28 July 2008 Revised 14 January 2009 Accepted 17 January 2009 Available online 29 January 2009

this paper investigates asymmetric behaviors of income inequality and consumption expenditures inequalities, the relationships between them and sketches their trends in the iranian households’ survey for the period of 1979 to 2006. for this purpose, and to analyze the relationships between variables panel data methodology was employed. results indicate that all the fluctuations of income inequa...