We examine how short sale constraints on portfolio holdings affect closed-end fund (CEF) discounts and thereby provide evidence on the causal effect of limits to arbitrage on asset mispricing. Using Regulation SHO as a natural experiment that relaxes shortsale constraints on pilot stocks, we find that discounts of CEFs holding more pilot stocks decrease relative to CEFs holding fewer pilot stoc...

Microarrays containing 1,126 nonredundant cDNAs selected from a chicken activated T-cell expressed sequence tag database (http://chickest.udel.edu) were used to examine changes in host cell gene expression that accompany infection of chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) with Marek's disease virus (MDV). Host genes that were reproducibly induced by infection of CEF with the oncogenic RB1B strain of ...

We investigate the magnetic and crystal electric field (CEF) states of Kondo lattice system CeCuGa3 by muon spin relaxation (muSR), neutron diffraction, inelastic scattering (INS) measurements. A noncentrosymmetric BaNiSn3-type tetragonal structure (space group I4mm) is inferred from x-ray as well powder diffraction. The low-temperature susceptibility heat capacity data show an anomaly near 2.3...

We report on the single crystal growth of the ferromagnetic Kondo lattice system CeRuPO using a Sn flux method. Magnetic susceptibility and electrical resistivity measurements indicate strong anisotropy of this structurally layered compound. They evidence that the magnetic moments order ferromagnetically along the c-direction of the tetragonal unit cell, whereas the crystal electric field (CEF)...

Methods We reviewed data from critically ill cirrhotic patients and matched controls in whom routine therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of broad-spectrum b-lactam antibiotics (ceftazidime or cefepime, CEF; piperacillin/tazobactam; TZP; meropenem, MEM) was performed. Serum drug concentrations were measured twice during the elimination phase by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC-UV). Ant...

In order to adapt LaSota strain of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) on chick embryo fibroblast (CEF) cells, 0.1 ml from LaSota vaccine produced in Razi vaccine and serum research institute inoculated to the CEF cells and was passaged five times in the CEF grown in Eagle’s minimum essential medium (MEM). First to third passages were blind but in fourth passage cytopathic effect of virus was observe...

The lack of the theory crystalline electric field (CEF) in rare-earth based quasicrystal (QC) and approximant crystal (AC) has prevented us from understanding electronic states. Recent success formulation CEF on basis point charge model made it possible to analyze microscopically. Here, by applying this QC Au-SM-Dy (SM=Si, Ge, Al, Ga) AC, we theoretically CEF. In Dy$^{3+}$ ion with $4f^9$ confi...

The aim of this study was to explore how the mitochondrial alternative oxidase (AOX) pathway alleviates photoinhibition in chilled tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) seedlings. Chilling induced seedlings despite increases thermal energy dissipation and cyclic electron flow around PSI (CEF-PSI). inhibited function PSII blocked transport at acceptor side, however, it did not affect oxygen-evolving com...

The genome of pseudorabies virus consists of two components, short (S) and long (L). Only the S component is bracketed by inverted repeats, and only the S component inverts itself relative to the L component, giving rise to two isomeric forms of the genome. An attenuated vaccine strain of pseudorabies virus (Norden), however, has a genome which is found in four isomeric forms (B. Lomniczi, M. L...

The p20K gene is induced in conditions of reversible growth arrest in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF). This expression is dependent on transcriptional activation and on a region of the promoter designated the quiescence-responsive unit (QRU). In this report, we describe the regulatory elements of the QRU responsible for activation in resting cells and characterize the trans-acting proteins int...