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TV or not TV? The impact of subtitling on English skills
We study the influence of television translation techniques on the quality of English spoken worldwide. We identify a large positive effect for subtitled original version broadcasts, as opposed to dubbed television, on English profficiency scores. We analyze the historical circumstances under which countries opted for one of the translation modes and use it to account for the possible endogeneity of the subtitling indicator. We disaggregate the results by type of skills and find that television works especially for listening comprehension. Our paper suggests that governments could promote subtitling as a means to improve foreign language profficiency and therefore economic performance
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TV or not TV? The impact of subtitling on english skills
We study the influence of television translation techniques on the worldwide distribution of English-speaking skills. We identify a large positive effect for subtitled original version broadcasts, as opposed to dubbed television, on English proficiency scores. We analyze the historical circumstances under which countries opted for one of the translation modes and use it to account for the possible endogeneity of the subtitling indicator. We disaggregate the results by type of skills and find that television works especially well for listening comprehension. Our paper suggests that governments could promote subtitling as a means to improve foreign language proficiency
Fokker-Planck type equations with Sobolev diffusion coefficients and BV drift coefficients
In this paper we give an affirmative answer to an open question mentioned in
[Le Bris and Lions, Comm. Partial Differential Equations 33 (2008),
1272--1317], that is, we prove the well-posedness of the Fokker-Planck type
equations with Sobolev diffusion coefficients and BV drift coefficients.Comment: 11 pages. The proof has been modifie
Cosmic Evolution of Black Holes and Spheroids. IV. The BH Mass - Spheroid Luminosity Relation
From high-resolution images of 23 Seyfert-1 galaxies at z=0.36 and z=0.57
obtained with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer on board
the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), we determine host-galaxy morphology, nuclear
luminosity, total host-galaxy luminosity and spheroid luminosity. Keck
spectroscopy is used to estimate black hole mass (M_BH). We study the cosmic
evolution of the M_BH-spheroid luminosity (L_sph) relation. In combination with
our previous work, totaling 40 Seyfert-1 galaxies, the covered range in BH mass
is substantially increased, allowing us to determine for the first time
intrinsic scatter and correct evolutionary trends for selection effects. We
re-analyze archival HST images of 19 local reverberation-mapped active galaxies
to match the procedure adopted at intermediate redshift. Correcting spheroid
luminosity for passive luminosity evolution and taking into account selection
effects, we determine that at fixed present-day V-band spheroid luminosity,
M_BH/L_sph \propto (1+z)^(2.8+/-1.2). When including a sample of 44 quasars out
to z=4.5 taken from the literature, with luminosity and BH mass corrected to a
self-consistent calibration, we extend the BH mass range to over two orders of
magnitude, resulting in M_BH/L_sph \propto (1+z)^(1.4+/-0.2). The intrinsic
scatter of the relation, assumed constant with redshift, is 0.3+/-0.1 dex (<0.6
dex at 95% CL). The evolutionary trend suggests that BH growth precedes
spheroid assembly. Interestingly, the M_BH-total host-galaxy luminosity
relation is apparently non-evolving. It hints at either a more fundamental
relation or that the spheroid grows by a redistribution of stars. However, the
high-z sample does not follow this relation, indicating that major mergers may
play the dominant role in growing spheroids above z~1.Comment: 39 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journa
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Intervention in the Foreign Exchange Market: Rationale, Effectiveness, Costs and Benefits
This paper reviews the underlying rationale for intervention in the foreign exchange market and argues that intervention can at times be justified due to the market producing the “wrong rate”, to mitigate the effects of exchange rate overshooting and also to slow down the process of economic adjustment. However, in order to be effective foreign exchange market intervention needs to be of the non-sterilized variety, that is, affect the domestic money supply and short term interest rate. Unfortunately, as the case of the Peoples Bank of China and the recent case of the Swiss National Bank’s attempts to stem the appreciation of their currencies, the side effects have shown the rapid expansion of their money supplies and low interest rates have had imposed significant costs on their economies. The result is that the Cemtral Bank has to continually monitor the costs and benefits of their foreign exchange interventions and be prepared consider a return to floating when the costs become too high
Contribution à la connaissance d'un droit foncier intermédiaire dans les villes d'Afrique de l'Ouest
Sitagliptin improved glucose assimilation in detriment of fatty-acid utilization in experimental type-II diabetes: Role of GLP-1 isoforms in Glut4 receptor trafficking
Background: The distribution of glucose and fatty-acid transporters in the heart is crucial for energy consecution and myocardial function. In this sense, the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) enhancer, sitagliptin, improves glucose homeostasis but it could also trigger direct cardioprotective actions, including regulation of energy substrate utilization. Methods: Type-II diabetic GK (Goto-Kakizaki), sitagliptin-treated GK (10 mg/kg/day) and wistar rats (n = 10, each) underwent echocardiographic evaluation, and positron emission tomography scanning for [ 18 F]-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose ( 18 FDG). Hearts and plasma were isolated for biochemical approaches. Cultured cardiomyocytes were examined for receptor distribution after incretin stimulation in high fatty acid or high glucose media. Results: Untreated GK rats exhibited hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance, and plasma GLP-1 reduction. Moreover, GK myocardium decreased 18 FDG assimilation and diastolic dysfunction. However, sitagliptin improved hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, and GLP-1 levels, and additionally, enhanced 18 FDG uptake and diastolic function. Sitagliptin also stimulated the sarcolemmal translocation of the glucose transporter-4 (Glut4), in detriment of the fatty acyl translocase (FAT)/CD36. In fact, Glut4 mRNA expression and sarcolemmal translocation were also increased after GLP-1 stimulation in high-fatty acid incubated cardiomyocytes. PI3K/Akt and AMPKα were involved in this response. Intriguingly, the GLP-1 degradation metabolite, GLP-1(9-36), showed similar effects. Conclusions: Besides of its anti-hyperglycemic effect, sitagliptin-enhanced GLP-1 may ameliorate diastolic dysfunction in type-II diabetes by shifting fatty acid to glucose utilization in the cardiomyocyte, and thus, improving cardiac efficiency and reducing lipolysisThis work was supported by national grants from Ministerio de Educación
y Ciencia (SAF2009-08367), Comunidad de Madrid (CCG10-UAM/BIO-5289),
and PIE13/00051 and PI14/00386 (IS. Carlos III). Merck Sharp and Dohme
(Darmstadt, Germany) provided sitagliptin and partial financial support to the
conduct of the stud
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