Both policy debate and research have focused on the linkage between the availability and generosity of public disability benefits and the reduction in the work effort of older men. That linkage is the subject of this paper. First, quantitative research in the area is reviewed and the differences in the results are examined. Results differ owing to differences in (1) model specification, (2) the...

In this paper I estimate the inflation risk premium (IRP) using a low- dimensional arbitrage free dynamic model through novel strategy. Instead of modeling nominal and real yields jointly, make assumptions about short-term rate. More specifically, assume it follows Gaussian process. This framework has closed-form expression for IRP. Since are not observed, to parameters approximate them by brea...

In its aconitase-inactive form, IRP-1 (iron regulatory protein-1)/cytosolic aconitase binds to the IRE (iron-responsive element) of several mRNAs to effect post-transcriptional regulation. We have shown previously that IRP-1 has ATPase activity and that binding of ATP suppresses the IRP-1/IRE interaction. In the present study, we characterize the binding activity further. Binding is observed wi...

TO THE EDITOR: Abdallah and Fass recently reported an interesting case of a patient with dysphagia who was initially diagnosed with Jackhammer esophagus (JE) and progressed to type 2 achalasia over the course of approximately 2 years. We read this report with great interest as our group has studied the natural course of JE and has also found progression of JE to achalasia, which we reported pre...

BACKGROUND Immune-related pancytopenia (IRP) is characterized by pancytopenia caused by autoantibody-mediated bone marrow destruction or suppression. The bone marrows of IRP patients have remarkably increased erythroblastic islands (EIs). METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We determined the immunoglobulin G (IgG) autoantibodies in some parts of EIs of IRP patients using immunofluorescence to ...

Genetic ablation of iron regulatory protein 2 (IRP-2), a protein responsible for post-transcriptional regulation of expression of several iron metabolism proteins, predisposes IRP-2 -/- mice to develop adult onset neurodegenerative disease. Ferric iron reproducibly accumulates within axonal tracts and neuronal cell bodies in discrete regions of the brain, and areas of iron accumulation colocali...

Run-time malware detection strategies are efficient and robust, which get more and more attention. In this paper, we use I/O Request Package (IRP) sequences for malware detection. N-gram will be used to analyze IRP sequences for feature extraction. Integrated use of Negative Selection Algorithm (NSA) and Positive Selection Algorithm (PSA), we get more than 96% true positive rate and 0% false po...

We performed a study on the fundamental adsorption characteristics of Er3N@C80 deposited on W(110) and Au(111) via room temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Adsorbed on W(110), a comparatively strong bond to the endohedral fullerenes inhibited the formation of ordered monolayer islands. In contrast, the Au(111)-surface provides a sufficiently high mobility for the molecul...

The processing of a stimulus benefits from the previous exposure of an identical stimulus, which is known as immediate repetition priming (IRP). Although several experimental manipulations modulate the size of this effect, the influence of affective information is still unclear. In order to explore the temporo-spatial characteristics of the interaction between emotion and IRP, event-related pot...

Endohedral metal carbides suggest an intriguing relationship to the growth mechanism of endohedral fullerenes; however, due to crystal quality requirements, only a half dozen of these have been characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Likewise, few examples of nonisolated pentagon rule (non-IPR) endohedral fullerenes have been crystallographically characterized, beginning with Sc3N@C6...