PLoS Pathogens, 2019 Eradication of tuberculosis (TB), the world's leading cause of death due to infectious disease, requires a highly efficacious TB vaccine. Many TB vaccine candidates are in pre-clinical and clinical development but only a few can be advanced to large ...
Miguel J Rodo +6 more
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Reforma Fiscal y Bienestar: El Caso de Chile [PDF]
Welfare-maximizing fiscal structures are determined in a two-sector model of endogenous growth calibrated for the Chilean economy. Under the baseline, the current tax structure is found to be close to the optimal one.
Antonio Seijas, Manuel A Gómez
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On the analysis and interpretation of inhomogeneous quadratic forms as receptive fields [PDF]
, 2005 In this paper we introduce some mathematical and numerical tools to analyze and interpret inhomogeneous quadratic forms. The resulting characterization is in some aspects similar to that given by experimental studies of cortical cells, making it ...
Berkes, Pietro, Wiskott, Laurenz
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Sistemas silvipastoris no Amapá: situação atual e perspectivas. [PDF]
, 2017 Este trabalho apresenta o estado atual da pecuária no Estado do Amapá, enfatizando o potencial para utilização de sistemas silvipastoris, além de uma síntese das tecnologias silvipastoris que estão sendo desenvolvidas pela Embrapa Amapá.
MEIRELLES, P. R. de L., MOCHIUTTI, S.
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Hierarchical Markov normal mixture models with applications to financial asset returns [PDF]
With the aim of constructing predictive distributions for daily returns, we introduce a new Markov normal mixture model in which the components are themselves normal mixtures. We derive the restrictions on the autocovariances and linear representation of
Amisano, Gianni, Geweke, John
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Where Economics Has Been Headed? Multiple Identities And Diversity In Economic Literature Evidence From Top Journals Over The Period 2000-2006 A First Note [PDF]
This short paper presents some preliminary results of an ongoing research work focusing on richness and diversity of economic literature. The key idea is that each article published in an economic journal retains multiple identities.
Campiglio, Luigi, Caruso, Raul
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US shocks and global exchange rate configurations [PDF]
The paper analyses the heterogeneity in the link between macroeconomic fundamentals and exchange rates. For a set of important US-specific economic shocks, it shows that such shocks have exerted a remarkably heterogeneous effect on global exchange rate ...
Fratzscher, Marcel
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The forecasting power of internal yield curve linkages [PDF]
This paper investigates whether information from foreign yield curves helps forecast domestic yield curves out-of-sample. A nested methodology to forecast yield curves in domestic and international settings is applied on three major countries (the US ...
Modugno, Michele, Nikolaou, Kleopatra
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Vaccination Against Tuberculosis: Revamping BCG by Molecular Genetics Guided by Immunology
, 2020 Kaufmann, S.
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Strategic defense and attack for series and parallel reliability systems: reply to rejoinder [PDF]
Kovenock and Roberson’s (2012ab) replication of Hausken’s (2008a) equations and parameter restrictions do not enhance our insight into the defense and attack of reliability systems. This reply intends to fill the remaining understanding gaps.Game theory;
Hausken, Kjell
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