We conduct a national-scale analysis of the determinants of agricultural land values. The theoretical basis for the study is a spatial city model with stochastic returns to future land development. The empirical model of agricultural land prices is estimated with a crosssection on approximately three thousand counties in the contiguous US. The results provide evidence that option values associa...

This paper intends to estimate the potential impact of climate change on Taiwan’s agricultural sector. Yield response regression models are used to investigate the climate change’s impact on 60 crops. A price-endogenous mathematical programming model is then used to simulate the welfare impacts of yield changes under various climate change scenarios. Results suggest that both warming and climat...

Nonrandom chromosome rearrangements of chromosome 22 have been identified in different human malignancies. As a result of Southern blot hybridization of a c-sis probe to DNA's from mouse-human somatic cell hybrids, the human homolog (c-sis) of the transforming gene of simian sarcoma virus was assigned to chromosome 22. Hybrids between thymidine kinase-deficient mouse cells and human fibroblasts...

In this paper we describe a case of a 65-year old man with a lymphoid blastic crisis of a chronic granulocytic leukemia occurring seven years after a palatine tonsillar non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Bone marrow cytogenetic study demonstrated the presence of the typical t(9;22)(q34;q11) and the molecular biology study showed the p210 rearrangement (b2a2)...

This paper builds a dynamic forward-looking model describing the approximate ten-year cattle cycle. The theoretical model improves on existing models by (1) allowing cow-calf operators to make investment decisions on both the cow and calf margins, (2) formally recognizing the age distribution of the capital stock, and (3) considering a mixed scheme of rational and naive expectations. The model....

Employing the error correction method and historical decomposition with direct acyclic graphs, we quantify the impacts of domestic and oversea animal disease crises on the Korean meat markets. We find that (a) the market partially recovered 16 months after the foot-and-mouth outbreak in 2000, and 13 months after the avian influenza and the U.S. BSE incidents in 2003; (b) animal disease outbreak...

Synovial sarcoma is a rare malignant tumor of mesenchymal origin. It accounts for approximately 8% (5.6%-10%) of all the soft tissue sarcoma, showing a specific chromosomal translocation t(X; 18) (p11; q11) [1]. It arises most commonly in the deep soft tissues of lower extremities such as the knee and ankle. Male adolescents and young adults are especially affected. Only 3% to 10% of all synovi...

Intravascular large B-cell lymphoma (IVLBCL) is a rare subtype of extranodal diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, which is characterized by the intravascular growth of lymphoma cells, aggressive behavior, and an often fatal course. Patients with IVLBCL are usually symptomatic. Although any organ may be involved, localized lesions in the bilateral ovaries and uterus are extremely rare. We experienced ...

We report calculated ionic rotational branching ratios and associated photoelectron angular distributions for ( 1 + 1') resonance enhanced multiphoton ionization ( REMPI) via the R 21 (20.5), P21 + Q11 (25.5), and P 11 (22.5) branches of theA 2 :I+(3so-) state of NO. The branching ratios are dominated by even angular momentum transfer peaks, in agreement with the ll.N +I= odd (ll.N=.N +N;) sele...

In bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) rare and de novo chromosomal microdeletions and microduplications (CNVs) have strong effects on risk. For de novo CNVs, the risk of BD or SZ is 10% and for deletions of the q11 region on chromosome 22, the risk of either of these disorders is 77%. A not-insignificant minority of BD and SZ patients have these types of event (4-6.5%). Psychotherapeu...