This paper studies bank loans over the business cycles in Iran to determine the role of Iranian banks in stabilizing credit. By estimating the long-run relations using dynamic OLS and fully modified OLS estimators, the findings show that real bank lending is positively related to real GDP in the long-run providing evidences of the pro-cyclicality of bank lending in Iran. Hence, Iranian banking ...

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have important roles in many processes of the developing CNS requiring proteolytic activity such as the migration of neuronal precursors, axonal outgrowth, and vascularization. Another developmental event involving proteolysis is myelin formation, whereby the extensive processes elaborated from oligodendrocytes (OLs) enwrap axons. Here we find MMP-12 transcripts...

Suppose the tails of the noise distribution in a regression exhibit power law behavior. Then the distribution of the OLS regression estimator inherits this tail behavior. This is relevant for regressions involving …nancial data. We derive explicit …nite sample expressions for the tail probabilities of the distribution of the OLS estimator. These are useful for inference. Simulations for medium ...

We argue for Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimation of Taylor rules despite an endogeneity bias. To that end, we show analytically in the three-equation New Keynesian model OLS bias is proportional to fraction variance regressors due monetary shocks. Using simulations, this relationship also holds a quantitative U.S. economy. Since shocks explain only small typical rule regressors, tends be sm...

We have previously isolated epidermal growth factor (EGF)-responsive multipotent progenitor cells from the early postnatal rodent cerebral cortex independent of generative zones. In this study we have examined the mechanisms regulating the generation of differentiated oligodendrocytes (OLs) from these multipotent cells. Although cultures of primary cortical OL progenitor cells propagated at clo...

To define the spatiotemporal development of and simultaneously select for oligodendrocytes (OLs) and Schwann cells (SCs), transgenic mice were generated that expressed a bacterial beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) and neomycin phosphotransferase fusion protein (betageo) under the control of murine 2'3'-cyclic nucleotide 3'-phosphodiesterase (muCNP) promoters I and II. Transgenic beta-gal activity w...

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-Operational Linescan System (DMSP-OLS) stable lights products are made using operational OLS data collected at high gain settings, resulting in sensor saturation on brightly lit areas, such as city centers. This has been a paramount shortcoming of the DMSP-OLS stable lights time series. This study outlines a methodology that greatly expands the dynam...

Spatial relationship between vegetation and rainfall in Central Kazakhstan has been modelled using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and rainfall data from weather stations. The modelling based on application of two statistical approaches: conventional ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, and geographically weighted regression (GWR). The results support the assumption that the a...

This study examined the factors that influence agricultural production and exports with specific reference to the natural rubber in India. Secondary data was used for this study. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) technique was used in analyzing the relevant data. The OLS findings revealed that natural rubber production is significantly (p<0.05) by export of natural rubber (β=0.05), stock (β=0.21) an...