This paper studies the relation between state visits and cross-border merger acquisition (M&A) activity. Based on 1161 11,531 acquisitions, we find that corporations from visiting countries are more likely to acquire in hosting visit. Domestic acquisitions host country or M&As with non-visiting not elevated. Evidence instrumental variable analysis points towards a causal effect of M&A Further s...

The purpose of this note is to posit and discuss the concept of "competitive inhibition potential" (CIP), which is an in vivo index of the ability of a competitive inhibitor to elevate plasma concentrations of drug substrates, when the competitive inhibitor is administered at its usual and customary dose.

Quantitative scaling into percent signal change is helpful to detect and eliminate “bad” results with abnormal extreme values. While cognitive effects give signal changes on the order of 1% (and larger in the visual and auditory cortices), signal variations of over 10% may arise from motion and other artifacts in the data. Thus, a quantitative check on measured effect size can be used to screen...

OBJECTIVE To monitor HIV seroprevalence among STD clinic attenders as part of a sentinel surveillance programme. DESIGN Seroepidemiological survey on randomly selected patients. SETTING "Elig Essono" STD clinic, Yaounde; from February 1989 to December 1990. PATIENTS 1161 randomly selected patients. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES HIV and syphilis seroprevalence. RESULTS Twenty six of the 1161 p...

Knowledge of three dimensional structure is essential to understand the function of a protein. Although the overall fold is made from the whole details of its sequence, a small group of residues, often called as structural motifs, play a crucial role in determining the protein fold and its stability. Identification of such structural motifs requires sufficient number of sequence and structural ...

Running Title: Fur affects exoprotein expression 3 Victor J. Torres, Ahmed S. Attia, William J. Mason, M. Indriati Hood, Brian D. 4 Corbin, Federico C. Beasley, Kelsi L. Anderson, Devin L. Stauff, W. Hayes 5 McDonald, Lisa J. Zimmerman, David B. Friedman, David E. Heinrichs, Paul M. 6 Dunman and Eric P. Skaar 7 8 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Mass 9 Spectrom...