How can a constituency continue to receive targeted benefits even without a representative in the legislature? We provide a theoretical model to demonstrate why constituency groups linked to specific candidates would receive politicized government transfers even when the group loses its representative in the legislature. The model also suggests that the amount of transfers a group with a repres...

Recent research has demonstrated benefits for older adults from training attentional control using a variable priority strategy, but the construct validity of the training task and the degree to which benefits of training transfer to other contexts are unclear. The goal of this study was to characterize baseline performance on the training task in a sample of 105 healthy older adults and to tes...

Cardiovascular disease represents the most common cause of mortality in the developed world but, despite two decades of promising pre-clinical research and numerous clinical trials, cardiovascular gene transfer has so far failed to demonstrate convincing benefits in the clinical setting. In this review we discuss the various targets which may be suitable for cardiovascular gene therapy and the ...

Microbes have recently been recognized as dominant forces in nature, with studies benefiting from gene markers that can be quickly, informatively, and universally surveyed. Viruses, where explored, have proven to be powerful modulators of locally and globally important microbes through mortality, horizontal gene transfer, and metabolic reprogramming. However, community-wide virus studies have b...

Should a subset of member states of a federation be allowed to form a sub-union on some policy issue? When centralization on that issue by all members is not politically feasible, allowing an enhanced cooperation among a subset of countries permits the latter to gain benefits which would otherwise be lost. However, if in the future the excluded countries also want to join, the fact that a sub-u...

This paper illustrates the effect of functional Register Transfer Level (RTL) coding styles on the testability of synthesized gate-level circuits. Thus, the advantage of having a RTL code analyzer to reduce the number of untestable faults, thereby improving the overall testability of a design is presented. In addition, it has been also observed that writing efficient RTL code to improve testabi...

The placental perfusion model and a newly developed complementary computational model are reviewed. Examples are provided, where the computational model can be applied to adjust drug pharmacokinetic data obtained from the perfusion model to more closely resemble the in vivo placental transfer of therapeutic agents. After modelling the data, placental perfusion experiments can be used to predict...

the purpose of this study is to extend the existing knowledge of inter-firm knowledge transfer research and provide a deeper understanding of knowledge transfer practice in an alliance context, as well as the reasons for such a practice. this study reports on relevant results derived from semi-structured interviews with 16 top managers in a chinese international joint venture (ijv) formed by tw...

Recent scholarship on regulatory oversight has focused on cost-benefit analysis of prescriptive regulations--regulations that restrict behavior such as pollution--and their use to cure market failures, and has overlooked the vast number of transfer regulations. Transfer regulations are regulations that channel funds to beneficiaries. These regulations are authorized by statutes that establish e...