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Primary fibroblasts from CSPα mutation carriers recapitulate hallmarks of the adult onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Water Funds: Conserving Green Infrastructure
This manual is an effort by TNC to compile, analyze and synthesize its own experience, together with that of the water funds already in existence and under creation, in order to provide operational guidelines to people and organizations interested in establishing a water fund or similar mechanism. Each location has different ecological, social, economic, legal and institutional features and, therefore, each water fund will have its own characteristics, phases and projections. This manual presents general guidelines and logical steps that must be followed to boost the opportunities and benefits of a water fund and to minimize possible obstacles for its creation. It is not intended to be an in-depth look at every aspect of water funds. Although TNC participates in several other initiatives and similar approaches to watershed management, such as the water producers program in Brazil, this document will not address those initiatives and will only focus on the water funds scheme, placing greater emphasis on experiences in the Andean region
A Multiple Case Study on the Identities of Immigrant College Students in a Filipino Language Club
M.Ed.M.Ed. Thesis. University of HawaiÊ»i at MÄnoa 201
Retirement and Social Security Reform Expectations: A Solution to the New Early Retirement Puzzle
Expectations in Micro Data: Rationality Revisited
An increasing number of longitudinal data sets collect expectations information regarding a variety of future individual level events and decisions, providing researchers with the opportunity to explore expectations over micro variables in detail. We present a theoretical framework and an econometric methodology to use that type of information to test the Rational Expectations (RE) hypothesis in models of individual behavior. This RE assumption at the micro level underlies a majority of the research in applied fields in economics, and it is the common foundation of most work in dynamic models of individual behavior. We present tests of three different types of expectations using two different panel data sets that represent two very different populations. In all three cases we cannot reject the RE hypothesis. Our results support a wide variety of models in economics, and other disciplines, that assume rational behavior.Rational Expectations, Retirement, Longevity, and Education Expectations, Instrumental Variables, Sample Selection.
Cosmological Parameter Estimation from SN Ia data: a Model-Independent Approach
We perform a model independent reconstruction of the cosmic expansion rate
based on type Ia supernova data. Using the Union 2.1 data set, we show that the
Hubble parameter behaviour allowed by the data without making any hypothesis
about cosmological model or underlying gravity theory is consistent with a flat
LCDM universe having H_0 = 70.43 +- 0.33 and Omega_m=0.297 +- 0.020, weakly
dependent on the choice of initial scatter matrix. This is in closer agreement
with the recently released Planck results (H_0 = 67.3 +- 1.2, Omega_m = 0.314
+- 0.020) than other standard analyses based on type Ia supernova data. We
argue this might be an indication that, in order to tackle subtle deviations
from the standard cosmological model present in type Ia supernova data, it is
mandatory to go beyond parametrized approaches
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