These days, people love to write comments that imitate Donald Trump’s speaking style. But inevitably, a few folks won’t get the joke. It’s tragic how these people end up getting left out of all the fun. This project is an attempt to rectify the situation. If there existed a program where you could give it a comment and it would tell you if the comment is written in Trump’s style, this would sol...

In this paper, we test the Rodrik et al (2004) framework to explain differences in development levels across countries by using a broader set of definitions for institutions, geography and economic variables. We use a multi-faceted database to measure institutions in an attempt to go beyond the single-dimension measures that are often employed. We find that institutions trump other factors (geo...

Cell membrane integrity and regularity are criteria commonly used to appreciate the preservation of biological specimens in electron microscope preparations . Disruptions in the cell membrane are observed in tissues experimentally submitted to autolysis and are interpreted as an expression of the fragility of autolysed tissues during technical procedures. In liver cells, on which most of the st...