This paper relates China’s current account surplus, as well as productivity differential between state-owned (SOEs) and privately-owned enterprises (POEs), to differences in access to finance. I consider an open-economy DSGE model of the Chinese economy with two productive sectors. I model SOEs and POEs as start-ups which need to borrow in order to begin production. Following a policy-induced a...

We investigate modeling flow in porous media in multiblock domain. Mixed finite element methods are used for subdomain discretizations. Physically meaningful boundary conditions are imposed on the non-matching interfaces via mortar finite element spaces. We investigate the pollution effect of nonmatching grids error on the numerical solution away from interfaces. We prove that most of the error...

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The Third International Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Course on Childhood Craniopharyngioma 2014, at Bad Zwischenahn, Germany, was attended by 60 participants from 21 countries. The present special issue of the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism contains selected scientific contributions summarizing the current status on diagnostics and treatment of patients with childhood-onset...

It is estimated that one-third of all proteins are integral membrane proteins, defined narrowly as proteins that completely traverse the membrane bilayer. There also exists a smaller but unknown number of monotopic membrane proteins, including prostaglandin endoperoxide H synthases, that interdigitate into a single leaflet of the lipid bilayer via a specific membrane binding domain (1). Additio...

Ç THIS is the first regular journal issue of the year, following the special issue on “Seamless, Ubiquitous, and Contextual Learning”. In general, the journal alternates regular and special issues to better represent the trends in our field. Our next special issue on “Wearable Technologies and the Internet of Things in Education and Training” has already been announced and its call for papers i...

Virtually all SARS-CoV-2 vaccines currently in clinical testing are stored a refrigerated or frozen state prior to use. This is major impediment deployment resource-poor settings. Furthermore, several of them use viral vectors mRNA. In contrast protein subunit vaccines, there limited manufacturing expertise for these nucleic-acid-based modalities, especially the developing world. Neutralizing a...

Since the beginning of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic, there has been international concern about emergence virus variants with mutations that increase transmissibility, enhance escape from human immune response, or otherwise alter biologically important phenotypes. In late 2020, several emerged globally, including UK variant (B.1.1.7), South Africa (B.1.3...

(English) As the opening statement in a curated dialogue on Language and Waste, this paper considers what sociolinguistics of waste might look like. In first two parts, I provide some general rationale academic context for starting to notice waste. By avoiding dirty places raw lives waste, sociolinguists obscure important relations: first, social worlds people who live work with/in waste; secon...