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Collateral and Debt Maturity Choice. A Signaling Model [PDF]

, 2005
This paper derives optimal loan policies under asymmetric information where banks offer loan contracts of long and short duration, backed or unbacked with collateral. The main novelty of the paper is that it analyzes a setting in which high quality firms
Tra, Pham Thi Thu,, Lensink, Robert,
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A Magneto‐Mechanically Activated Nerve Guidance Conduit Promotes Peripheral Nerve Regeneration via TIMP1‐Mediated Membrane Tension Transfer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a magneto‐mechanical strategy that incorporates FP@MSCs into an aligned PCL/GelMA nerve guidance conduit. Magnetic stimulation increases membrane tension in FP@MSCs, triggering cytoskeletal remodeling, Schwann cell‐like differentiation, and TIMP1 secretion. TIMP1 activates ITGB1/CD63–FAK signaling in NE‐4C cells, increasing membrane
Xinyu Zhu, Yumin Wu, Xiang Gao, Tianlu Wang, Wanting Jia, Xueying Mei, Huanzhong Ji, Zongxi Wu, Yujie Liang, Xiang Li, Kan Li, Jingyuan Li, Guangsen Zheng, Guiqing Liao, Siyong Gao   +14 more
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Gut Microbiota and Neurotransmitter Regulation: Functional Effects of Four Traditional Chinese Fermented Soybean (Sojae Semen Praeparatum)

Foods
This study aims to evaluate the potential disease prevention and treatment functions of four types of traditional Chinese fermented Sojae Semen Praeparatum (SSP) by analyzing their nutritional active components and their effects on the gut microbiota ...
Lin Zhang, Huo Su, Siqi Wang, Yujie Fu, Manyuan Wang   +4 more
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The determinants of financial distress cost: A case of emerging market

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023
[Figure: see text]This study analyses the cost of financial distress of non-financial firms listed on the Pakistan stock exchange. Furthermore, it considers the moderating role of concentrated ownership in the relationship between debt and expected ...
Muhammad Farooq, Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Saif Ullah, Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan   +3 more
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Chemical Strategies for Multistimuli Responsive Dynamic Covalent Materials in Regenerative Medicine

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Multistimuli responsive dynamic covalent materials integrate reversible chemistry with the complex chemical, mechanical, and biochemical cues of regenerative environments. This review highlights chemical strategies based on orthogonal dynamic bonds, multicomponent networks, and hierarchical architectures to regulate mechanics, degradation, and ...
Saurabh Joshi, Matthew B. Baker, Dominik Schauenburg   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choice of Collateral Currency [PDF]

Collateral has been used for a long time in the cash market and we have also experienced significant increase of its use as an important credit risk mitigation tool in the derivatives market for this decade.
Masaaki Fujii, Akihiko Takahashi
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Advanced Materials for Biologics Delivery to Brain Tumors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Material innovation is central to unlocking the therapeutic potential of biologics against many central nervous system diseases, including brain cancer. By engineering carriers with controlled transport, targeting, and release properties, advanced materials can overcome the blood–brain barrier and tumor microenvironment, improving the delivery of ...
Yuran Feng, Yuxue Cao, Maria Kavallaris, Taskeen Janjua, Amirali Popat   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inductively Expandable Supraparticles as Microscopic Force Generators for Remote Mechanical Actuation

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates the combination of magnetic nanoparticles and functional blowing agents into supraparticles. Upon induction heating, they actuate via rapid gas generation or extensive volume expansion. These supraparticles lift up to 25 000 times their own mass and rapidly open cured epoxy resins, providing a versatile strategy for fast micron ...
Leoni Luthardt, Stephan Müssig, Robert Luxenhofer, Karl Mandel   +3 more
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Preliminary Evaluation on the Anti‐Osteoporosis Mechanism of Sojae Semen Germinatum Based on Network Pharmacology and Germination‐Improved Bioavailability

eFood
Sojae Semen Germinatum is a processed soybean product germinated using mature seeds of Glycine max (L.) Merr. with therapeutic benefits for osteoporosis. However, its action mechanism and related chemical components are unclear.
Rezeye Aili, Hong Chen, Feng Qiu
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Transformation profiles of the isoflavones in germinated soybean based on UPLC–DAD quantification and LC–QTOF–MS/MS confirmation

Food Chemistry: X
Germinated soybean is one kind of food and a medicine. In the actual process of producing a large amount of naturally germinated soybean, it is difficult to strictly control the germination process conditions.
Hong Chen, Rezeye Aili, Manyuan Wang, Feng Qiu   +3 more
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