In the absence of hypertrophic proliferation of microtubules, microtubule disruption by colchicine does not modulate contraction of adult cardiac myocytes. However, Gomez et al (Circ Res. 2000;86:30–36) recently reported that disruption of microtubules by colchicine in ruptured patch-clamped myocytes increased ICa,L density and [Ca ]i transient amplitude and depressed the response of these para...

Analysts typically use a variety of techniques to forecast inflation. These include both ‘bottom-up’ approaches, for near-term forecasting, as well as econometric methods (such as mark-up models of inflation, which have been found to perform quite well for Australia – see de Brouwer and Ericsson (1998)). One of the econometric approaches to inflation forecasting which is sometimes considered is...

Chloroplast envelope polypeptides from spinach were separated into several fractions on the basis of their solubility in a mixture of chloroform/methanol (2:1, v/v) or in 0.1 N NaOH. Using a simple two dimension procedure for gel electrophoresis, we resolved up to 70 polypeptides. The envelope is characterized by the preponderance of high molecular weight polypeptides (Mr > 54,000), many of...

In this paper we deal with some validation (and a …rst calibration) experiments on the CATS model proposed in Gallegati et al. (2003a, 2004b). The CATS model has been intensively used (see, for example, Delli Gatti et al., 2004; Russo, 2004; Gallegati et al., 2003b) to replicate a large number of scaling type stylized facts with a remarkable degree of precision and, for these purposes, the simu...

a medium scale structural macroeconometric model is constructed to investigate the effects of energy price liberalization on the main macroeconomic variables. the analysis is conducted under 3 different scenarios of increasing the price of energy sources to the level prevailed in the countries of the persian gulf region. these 3 scenarios are a sudden increase, a gradual increase within a 5 yea...

During the last decade, several studies have argued that sticky information model proposed by Mankiw and Reis (2002), in which firms update their information occasionally rather than instantaneously, explains some stylized facts about the inflation dynamics. Sticky information pricing model successfully captures the sluggish movement of aggregate prices in response to monetary policy shocks. De...