OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of ethnicity on student performance in stations assessing communication skills within an objective structured clinical examination. DESIGN Quantitative and qualitative study. SETTING A final UK clinical examination consisting of a two day objective structured clinical examination with 22 stations. PARTICIPANTS 82 students from ethnic minorities and 97 white ...

This article examines the structural responses of foreign exchange and equity markets to COVID-19 pandemic in seven Asian countries over its first 4 months (31 December 2019 1 May 2020). Marginal effects derived from a vector autoregression (SVAR) model suggest that 1% increase incidence cases significantly diminished Indonesia’s market returns by 4.7%, depreciated Indian rupee against US dolla...

We are interested in why minorities are so often at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements that work to bring minorities into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority welcomes the minority, also plays a role. We examine the consequences for assimilation and harassment of growth in the minority population, ...

-A statistical model has been proposed in an attempt to integrate coincidental (or synchronous) diagnoses of multiple primary cancers into a general method of analysis. In the context of population-based surveys, such diagnoses form an integral part of the pattern of incidence within the population. Because of clinical surveillance, the diagnosis of subsequent tumours may be advanced in time in...

Phenylpropenes, a large group of plant volatile compounds that serve in multiple roles in defense and pollinator attraction, contain a propenyl side chain. Eugenol synthase (EGS) catalyzes the reductive displacement of acetate from the propenyl side chain of the substrate coniferyl acetate to produce the allyl-phenylpropene eugenol. We report here the structure determination of EGS from basil (...

The low level of volatility observed in appraisal-based commercial property indices relative to other asset classes has been frequently noted and extensively commented on in the Real Estate finance literature. However, the volatility of such commercial property indices is only one source of information on the second moment of commercial property returns. The volatility of securitised property r...

Do labor regulations influence the reaction of stock markets and firm profitability to cross-border acquisitions? We discover that acquiring firms enjoy smaller abnormal stock returns and profits when targets are in countries with stronger labor protection regulations, i.e., in countries where laws, regulations, and policies increase the costs to firms of adjusting their workforces. These effec...

Recent research has found that perceiving racial discrimination toward one’s own group results in the expression of more positive attitudes toward members of other racial minority groups; however, perceiving sexism results in the expression of more negative attitudes toward other stigmatized groups, namely, racial minorities. One possibility for this seeming discrepancy is that perceived group ...

We assessed feeding-related developmental anomalies in the LgDel mouse model of chromosome 22q11 deletion syndrome (22q11DS), a common developmental disorder that frequently includes perinatal dysphagia--debilitating feeding, swallowing and nutrition difficulties from birth onward--within its phenotypic spectrum. LgDel pups gain significantly less weight during the first postnatal weeks, and ha...