We partnered with a micro‐lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no‐loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with respect to agricultural investment. In loan‐villages, we gave grants to a random subset of farmers wh...

Smart grid envisions the potential to manage diverse energy resources and enable a future self-dispatch and selfhealing grid. This would first require the micro-grid visibility of node behavior (i.e. electrical parameters). In this paper we propose a novel approach to construct a stochastic model that makes global inference on every node at the micro-grid level. The micro-grid system can be mod...

Mark J. Roberts and Dylan Supina Industrial Orgaruzation, Volume 9, pages 1-36. ~~pyright © 2000 by Elsevier Science Inc. ~u rights of reproduction in any form reserved. ISBN: 0-7623-0687-4 This chapter provides empirical evidence on the extent of producer heterogeneity in the output market by analyzing output price and price­ marginal cost markups at the plant level for thirteen homogeneous ma...

Over the last few years the Texas Department of Transportation has expressed concern about mineralogical segregation (variation) of coarse aggregates used in bituminous mixes; problems are associated with variation in the quality of aggregates taken from a quarry/gravel pit. The primary objective of this project was to examine the effects of poor quality coarse limestone aggregate on hotmix asp...

RESEARCH ARTICLE In vitro Evaluation of the Marginal Fit and Internal Adaptation of Zirconia and Lithium Disilicate Single Crowns: Micro-CT Comparison Between Different Manufacturing Procedures Francesco Riccitiello, Massimo Amato, Renato Leone, Gianrico Spagnuolo # and Roberto Sorrentino Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University “Federico II” of Na...

A 62-year-old woman with splenic marginal zone lymphoma presented with fever, cough and bilateral pneumonia 11 days after chemotherapy. A bronchoalveolar lavage showed numerous leukocytes and Gramnegative bacilli that were identified as Bordetella bronchiseptica in culture. An antibiotherapy with minocycline and ciprofloxacin helped her to stop coughing. This unusual micro-organism, which has m...

BACKGROUND Pulpal reaction to restorative materials depends on marginal microleakage, which is a dynamic phenomenon that allows bacteria and fluids to traverse across the tooth-restoration interface. Glass-ionomer cement (GIC) exhibits low microleakage due to direct bonding to tooth structures. Hydroxyapatite (HAP) based on the similarity with tooth structure may decrease the microleakage. The ...

The frequency of contraction of the bell of Gonionemus was studied in relation to temperature, with intact animals and also where different operations were made on the nervous system. A number of values of micro are found for intact animals namely 8,100+/-, 10,500+/-, 32,000+/- and 22,500+/-, with critical temperatures at 9.6 degrees , 12.3 degrees , and 14.0 degrees . Four different classes of...

Within the framework of a dynamic Computable General Equilibrium model this paper analyses the impact of trade restrictions on regional rates of return on capital, marginal costs of abatement and optimal climate policy. It will be shown that regional differences both in marginal costs of abatement and in the marginal productivity of capital are driven by market imperfection. With restrictions o...

to evaluate the influence of core thickness and fabrication stages on the marginal accuracy of ips e.max press crowns.twenty ips e.max press crowns, 1.5mm thick, were fabricated on metal dies. the crowns had two different core thicknesses, 0.8mm for group a and 1mm for group b, ten for each group. marginal gap was measured after each stage of core fabrication, veneering and glaze firing. the sp...