Abstract China began implementing market-based economic dispatch through power sector reform in 2015, but the has encountered some political and challenges. Here we identify reform’s efficiency changes explore influences of market-driven politically driven mechanisms behind them. We do this a cost-minimizing model integrating high-frequency data southern China. find that transition improves ove...

Management of cocoa plantation field relied on the use of pesticides over the years; hence, the fate of such chemicals is one of the most debated issues among the stakeholders. Young and old cocoa plantation fields from 4 major cocoa producing States in Nigeria were selected as the study area. Eight composites soil samples collected from 3 portions of 6 transect measured area (100 x 50m) of the...

Flexible graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) are fabricated with graphene channels fully encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) implementing a self-aligned fabrication scheme. Flexible GFETs fabricated with channel lengths of 2 μm demonstrate exceptional room-temperature carrier mobility (μFE = 10 000 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1)), strong current saturation characteristics (peak output resist...

Given the large amount of data stored in biological databases, the management of uncertainty and incompleteness in them is a non-trivial problem. To cope with the large amount of sequences being produced, a significant number of genes and proteins have been functionally characterized by automated tools. However, these tools have also produced a significant number of misannotations that are now ...

capture elisa system was developed for diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (vl) using a monoclonal antibody raised against an antigen previously detected in the urine of vl patients. urine samples from confirmed vl cases from yemen, nepal, spain, sudan and brazil were tested in the capture elisa in comparison with urine samples from endemic and non-endemic areas along with urine samples from pa...

THE FEDERAL BANKING REGULATORS: AGENCY CAPTURE, REGULATORYFAILURE, AND INDUSTRY COLLAPSE DURING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISISbyJUSTIN REXAugust 2013Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Sarbaugh-ThompsonMajor: Political ScienceDegree: Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation examines the process of agency capture at four federal bank regulatoryagencies leading up to the 2008 finan...