Measure for Measure: A Critical Consumers' Guide to Reading Comprehension Assessments for Adolescents

A companion report to Carnegie's Time to Act, analyzes and rates commonly used reading comprehension tests for various elements and purposes. Outlines trends in types of questions, stress on critical thinking, and screening or diagnostic functions

Scarred Generation

The recent global economic crisis took an outsized toll on young workers across the globe, especially in advanced economies, which were hit harder and are recovering more slowly than emerging market and developing economies

Cardiac Glycosides in Medicinal Plants

Plant active metabolites are under intensive examinations around the world to supplement the drugs with minimal side effects. Thus, there is vast potential to explore the possible medicine from the plant sources. Cardiac glycosides are a unique group of secondary metabolites that they are considered one of the most useful drugs in therapeutics. In this review, cardiac glycosides and their analogues are presented. The structure and distribution in plants, as well as structure elucidations, synthetic routes, and chemical analysis, are shown. In addition, the pharmacological activities, mode of action studies, and structure­activity relationships are discussed

Role of debt maturity on firms´ fixed assets during sudden stop episodes: Evidence from Thailand

This paper studies the detrimental effect of sudden stops on the growth of Thai firms’ fixed assets. We focus on the fixed assets adjustment that firms undertake at times of financial constraints. We derive our results from balance sheet data for 284 nonfinancial Thai listed firms. Our data demonstrate that Thai firms faced severe declines in the growth of their fixed assets starting in 1996. Regression results demonstrate, after controlling for firms’ characteristics and lagged dependent variables, that a longer-term debt maturity structure is the factor that works in the firms’ favor during sudden stop episodes, while it is their profitability that matters during tranquil periods.sudden stops, Thailand, debt maturity structure, Asian financial crisis