Savings and Financial Sector Development: Panel Cointegration Evidence from Africa

financial sector development, private savings, panel cointegration tests, Africa

Financial Sector Development - Futile or Fruitful? An Examination of the Determinants of Savings in Sri Lanka

saving, financial sector development, cointegration, principal components, Sri Lanka

The role of merchandise exports to Mexico in the pattern of Texas employment

In 1987, Texas exported $25 billion worth of merchandise to foreign countries. Twenty-six percent, or$6.5 billion, of those exports went south to Mexico. By 1994, Texas merchandise exports to Mexico had grown to more than $18.5 billion per year (in 1987 constant dollars). Texas merchandise exports to Mexico (in real terms) have grown more than 10 percent a year for six of the last seven years. ; Using input-output analysis, Kelly George and Lori Taylor find that merchandise exports to Mexico, while representing only about 5 percent of Texas output, have grown in ways that have substantially influenced the composition of the state's economy. The authors attribute a small portion of the state's overall job gains since 1987 to rising merchandise exports to Mexico but find that almost all Texas employment growth in high-tech manufacturing sectors stems from trade with Mexico.Employment (Economic theory) ; Exports ; Mexico ; Texas

An approach to evolving cell signaling networks in silico

Cell Signaling Networks(CSN) are complex bio-chemical networks which, through evolution, have become highly efficient for governing critical control processes such as immunological responses, cell cycle control or homeostasis. From a computational point of view, modeling Artificial Cell Signaling Networks (ACSNs) in silico may provide new ways to design computer systems which may have specialized application areas. To investigate these new opportunities, we review the key issues of modeling ACSNs identified as follows. We first present an analogy between analog and molecular computation. We discuss the application of evolutionary techniques to evolve biochemical networks for computational purposes. The potential roles of crosstalk in CSNs are then examined. Finally we present how artificial CSNs can be used to build robust real-time control systems. The research we are currently involved in is part of the multi disciplinary EU funded project, ESIGNET, with the central question of the study of the computational properties of CSNs by evolving them using methods from evolutionary computation, and to re-apply this understanding in developing new ways to model and predict real CSNs. This also complements the present requirements of Computational Systems Biology by providing new insights in micro-biology research

Tailoring Program Outcomes and Assessments for your Program: A Case Study of an Economic Program

Per requirements and standards of SACs\u27 principles and assessments, institutions must show ongoing, integrated planning and evaluation processes that incorporate a systematic review of mission and goals. Faculty generated student outcomes and assessments have received a greater focus in recent years in higher education, especially at the author\u27s university, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide (ERAU). In an effort to answer to all the consumers of our products, ERAU values programs that focus on making student learning outcomes central to the assessment process. To immediately implement this philosophy of outcomes based objectives and assessments within a program and estimate the value of implementing them within a course, the author redesigned and updated her ECON 210, Undergraduate Microeconomics online course as a sample within a program. Of special note, Economics is not a full stand alone program, but part of the Humanities and Economics Program within the Department of Arts and Letters at ERAU. The author used the Arnold Economics text and Aplia.com as a software tool in the course. Once she mapped the course\u27s learning outcomes to University expectations and self-defined Program Goals, she could clearly indicate where students were held accountable for learning a specific learning objective and the feedback given. This process makes program improvement actionable. The author also shares the results of her analysis and implementation of indicated changes. Not all quantitative results were statistically significant, but qualitative data suggests overall positive results. This process was an enlightening exercise for the author at a minimum as a formal tool to improve the delivery and effectiveness of her course. In addition, this has served as a model for the Department of Arts and Letters pilot assessment process of student learning outcomes

Craig\u27s Wife (March 13, 1953)

Program for Craig\u27s Wife (March 13, 1953). To view the photos from this production of Craig\u27s Wife, please click here

The Show-Off (March 27, 1931)

Program for The Show-Off (March 27, 1931)

Craig\u27s Wife (December 11, 1936)

Program for Craig\u27s Wife (December 11, 1936)

The Show-Off

A moral drama laced with humor about the Fisher family in Philadelphia and their reactions to the younger daughter\u27s attachment to a man whose tendency to exaggerate about his accomplishments and his income worry the family.https://collected.jcu.edu/plays/1004/thumbnail.jp

Preliminary steps toward artificial protocell computation

Protocells are hypothesised as a transitional phase in the origin of life, prior to the evolution of fully functional prokaryotic cells. The work reported here is being done in the context of the PACE project, which is investigating the fabrication of artificial protocells de novo. We consider here the important open question of whether or how articifial protocells (if or when they are successfully fabricated) might be applied as “computing” devices—what sort of computing might they be suitable for, and how might they be “programmed”? We also present some preliminary analysis of a crude model of such “evolutionary protocell computation”