Where do we go from here? The Fall-Winter 2020 issue of the IMF Research Perspectives considers this question and analyzes impact COVID-19 pandemic. research showcased in looks at history social unrest aftermaths pandemics, discusses inequalities telework, places COVID lending conditions under microscope, examines how economic activity has been shaped by people’s reaction to virus resulting pol...

Abstract Palatability of meat is known to be affected by intramuscular fat (IMF), but the effect in relatively low-fat New Zealand lamb unknown. This study evaluated eating quality 108 loins (M. longissimus lumborum) from a single flock ewe-lambs. Loins ranged 1.09–5.68% IMF and were stratified into 6 groups: 1.65, 2.12, 2.65, 3.20, 3.58 4.40%. Consumers' (n = 165) overall liking increased sign...

There is both theoretical and empirical evidence that the initial mass function (IMF) may be a function of the local star formation conditions. In particular, the IMF is predicted to flatten with increasing local luminosity density ρl, with the formation of massive stars being preferentially enhanced in brighter regions. In R136, the bright stellar cluster in 30 Doradus, the IMF gradient is ∂Γ/...

It has frequently been suggested in the literature that the stellar IMF in galaxies was top-heavy at early times. This would be plausible physically if the IMF depended on a mass-scale such as the Jeans mass that was higher at earlier times because of the generally higher temperatures that were present then. In this paper it is suggested, on the basis of current evidence and theory, that the IM...

Effects of genetic variation in porcine adipocyte and heart fatty acid-binding protein genes, A-FABP and H-FABP, respectively, on intramuscular fat (IMF) content and backfat thickness (BFT) were examined in F2 crossbreds of Meishan and Western pigs. The involvement of each FABP gene in IMF accretion was studied to confirm previous results for Duroc pigs. The F2 crossbred pigs were genotyped for...

One of the key observations regarding the stellar initial mass function (IMF) is its nearuniversality in the Milky Way (MW), which provides a powerful way to constrain different star formation models that predict the IMF. However, those models are almost universally ‘cloud-scale’ or smaller – they take as input or simulate single molecular clouds (GMCs), clumps or cores, and predict the resulti...

[1] A sudden southward turning of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is simulated by the University of Michigan’s BATS-R-US model. The main goal of this study is to determine the time delay as well as physical processes between when an IMF discontinuity reaches the bow shock, when reconnection is initiated at the magnetopause, and when the ionosphere starts to react. While observations or empi...

[1] Using line‐of‐sight measurements of horizontal plasma drift from the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) located in the Northern and Southern hemispheres over a period extending from 1998 to 2002, statistical models of the high‐latitude convection electric field are derived for various ranges of interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) magnitude and orientation and for several ranges of...

Intermediate mass fragment (IMF) multiplicity has been investigated for Au+Au reactions at incident energies of 100, 250 and 400MeV/A. From the analysis of the impact-parameter-dependence of the IMF multiplicity using our QMD plus statistical evaporation model, we found that 1) statistical decay process modifies the results greatly, and 2) the Fermi motion plays a role to increase the IMF multi...