The Impact of International Financial Integration on Industry Growth

The empirical relationship between financial openness and growth is examined in this paper. In contrast to a large body of cross-country work investigating this link, I study the impact of financial integration on growth at the industry level. This paper provides evidence that financial openness has a positive effect on growth of industrial sectors, regardless of their characteristics. Moreover, industries that rely relatively more on external finance grow disproportionately faster in countries with more integrated financial systems. However, this industry-specific effect of financial openness decreases when I control for the development of the domestic financial system. Finally, the hypothesis that financial integration improved growth also by enhancing the functioning of the domestic financial system is tested. I find evidence of this indirect transmission channel of financial openness.Financial Integration, Financial Development, Growth

Articulating, reclaiming and celebrating the professionalism of teacher educators in England

This paper examines the cumulative effects on teacher educators of a series of ideological and policy changes in the English teacher education landscape since the early 80s. We argue that these rapid changes have marginalized the role of the university in teacher learning and resulted in narrower, more instrumental forms of teacher education. Within this landscape we see a distinct need to re-state (and reinstate) the importance of higher education-based teacher educators, and to reclaim and celebrate their practices and the nature of the professionalism involved. We invite the reader to rethink teacher educator professionalism as what is enacted by teacher educators, as engaged in their professional activities. A view of enacted professionalism gives central stage to and trusts the professional judgement of teacher educators to do what they deem is good, appropriate, or best – understood in a broad sense – to support the professional learning of newcomers in the profession

Rivaroxaban for the Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism

With the advent of new oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for the treatment of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and/or pulmonary embolism (PE), a new era of oral anticoagulation for patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE) has begun. Rivaroxaban is the first NOAC to receive regulatory approval for the acute and continued treatment of DVT and PE, and for the secondary prevention of VTE. Here, the clinical trials of rivaroxaban in patients with VTE are reviewed, and the clinical use of rivaroxaban for patients with PE is discussed. Even though rivaroxaban will facilitate the therapeutic management of PE, its use in specific clinical situations needs further study

Maine Campus September 26 1957

In traction applications, electrical drivetrain components are subjected to unpredictable load and temperature variations depending on the driving cycle and ambient conditions. As performance and power density requirements are getting increasingly stringent, the power electronic devices and electromagnetic actuators are stressed heavily due to temperature cycling effects and face the risk of overheating, compromising lifetime and reliability. To protect the drivetrain from thermally induced failure, a model-based thermal management strategy is proposed in this paper. Critical component temperatures are calculated online with a combined loss and thermal model and are limited progressively by applying constraints to loss-influencing operating variables. Starting from the requested torque, the dq-current setpoint calculation is formulated as a constraint optimization problem in order to protect all drivetrain components while maximizing overall efficiency over the entire torque speed operating range, including field weakening at elevated speed. Unlike conventional approaches, which are often adhoc or based on de-rating, the proposed strategy allows the drivetrain to operate safely at maximum performance limits, without unnecessarily degrading performance.status: publishe

Research capacity building in and on teacher education: developing practice and learning

Research is widely acknowledged as a key element of professional learning for intending and serving teachers, as well as for their teacher educators. And yet, despite this centrality, research in teacher education is often subjected to critique and contestation. Internationally, the quality of such research has been questioned, and there are on-going issues about when, how and why teacher educators and teachers (can) engage in research. Initiatives to build research capacity in teacher education thus remain of crucial importance. Here we focus on this issue, aiming to analyse how to strengthen the field of teacher education locally and internationally. We first set out a conceptual framework for considering capacity building, and then analyse three international examples of practice in teacher education research: the Norwegian Doctoral School (NAFOL); the use of self-study research in Belgium (Flanders); and the Teacher Education Research Network (TERN), a social practices initiative in England. The contextualised analysis of these local capacity-building initiatives exemplifies what factors influence their enactments and outcomes and, in so doing, also inform a more ‘glocal’ understanding of how to build research capacity in and on teacher education. From this follows our overall question: what can be learned from these cases about how to build research capacity in and on teacher education

Arnout Hauben & Johanna Spaey, To War. A Journey Along the Front of World War I

Infotainment is supposed to disseminate historical knowledge to a broader audience, and I am fully aware that this unavoidably implies the loss of some nuance in favour of the genre’s entertaining aspect. The problem with Arnout Hauben and Johanna Spaey’s Ten Oorlog. Een reis langs het front van WO I is that its informative aspect is not subject to nuance but rather flawed by inaccuracies. A few preliminary remarks. Reading the title raises some suspicions: the subtitle, A Journey Along the F..

Emulsions photographiques positives directes aux halogénures d'argent

publication date: 1976-05-18; filing date: 1973-07-09Direct-positive silver halide emulsions comprising fogged silver halide grains and having adsorbed to the surface of said grains an electron-acceptor have improved stability and speed when subsequent to fogging of said grains and addition of the said electron acceptor the pH of the emulsion is lowered, preferably below pH 6.Mass production of silver halide recording material for full colourholographi

The rise of age homogamy in 19th century Western Europe

In many parts of Western Europe the age at first marriage and the level of celibacy declined in the second half of the 19th century. This weakening of the European marriage pattern (EMP) can be interpreted as a "classic" response to the increase of the standard of living, but a more far-reaching interpretation is that the erosion of the EMP was part of a cultural shift characterized by the rise of a new, less instrumental and more egalitarian view on marriage and partner selection. The latter vision implies the increase of the preference for a same age marriage. We test this explanation by using a combined Belgian-Dutch data set of marriage certificates (N = 766,412). Our findings corroborate the "cultural shift thesis."

Prediction of coronary artery disease using urinary proteomics

Aims: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is multifactorial, caused by complex pathophysiology, and contributes to a high burden of mortality worldwide. Urinary proteomic analyses may help to identify predictive biomarkers and provide insights into the pathogenesis of CAD. Methods and results: Urinary proteome was analysed in 965 participants using capillary electrophoresis coupled with mass spectrometry. A proteomic classifier was developed in a discovery cohort with 36 individuals with CAD and 36 matched controls using the support vector machine. The classifier was tested in a validation cohort with 115 individuals who progressed to CAD and 778 controls and compared with two previously developed CAD-associated classifiers, CAD238 and ACSP75. The Framingham and SCORE2 risk scores were available in 737 participants. Bioinformatic analysis was performed based on the CAD-associated peptides. The novel proteomic classifier was comprised of 160 urinary peptides, mainly related to collagen turnover, lipid metabolism, and inflammation. In the validation cohort, the classifier provided an area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of 0.82 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0.78–0.87] for the CAD prediction in 8 years, superior to CAD238 (AUC: 0.71, 95% CI: 0.66–0.77) and ACSP75 (AUC: 0.53 and 95% CI: 0.47–0.60). On top of CAD238 and ACSP75, the addition of the novel classifier improved the AUC to 0.84 (95% CI: 0.80–0.89). In a multivariable Cox model, a 1-SD increment in the novel classifier was associated with a higher risk of CAD (HR: 1.54, 95% CI: 1.26–1.89, P \u3c 0.0001). The new classifier further improved the risk reclassification of CAD on top of the Framingham or SCORE2 risk scores (net reclassification index: 0.61, 95% CI: 0.25–0.95, P = 0.001; 0.64, 95% CI: 0.28–0.98, P = 0.001, correspondingly). Conclusion: A novel urinary proteomic classifier related to collagen metabolism, lipids, and inflammation showed potential for the risk prediction of CAD. Urinary proteome provides an alternative approach to personalized prevention