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Boston College
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About: Boston College is a education organization based out in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 9749 authors who have published 25406 publications receiving 1105145 citations. The organization is also known as: BC.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Catalysis, Context (language use), Politics
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TL;DR: Evidence that mispositioned myonuclei are not merely a symptom of muscle disease but also a cause is reviewed and genes that regulate myonuclear movement and positioning have been linked to muscular dystrophy.
Abstract: Muscle disease as a group is characterized by muscle weakness, muscle loss, and impaired muscle function. Although the phenotype is the same, the underlying cellular pathologies, and the molecular causes of these pathologies, are diverse. One common feature of many muscle disorders is the mispositioning of myonuclei. In unaffected individuals, myonuclei are spaced throughout the periphery of the muscle fiber such that the distance between nuclei is maximized. However, in diseased muscles, the nuclei are often clustered within the center of the muscle cell. Although this phenotype has been acknowledged for several decades, it is often ignored as a contributor to muscle weakness. Rather, these nuclei are taken only as a sign of muscle repair. Here we review the evidence that mispositioned myonuclei are not merely a symptom of muscle disease but also a cause. Additionally, we review the working models for how myonuclei move from two different perspectives: from that of the nuclei and from that of the cytoskeleton. We further compare and contrast these mechanisms with the mechanisms of nuclear movement in other cell types both to draw general themes for nuclear movement and to identify muscle-specific considerations. Finally, we focus on factors that can be linked to muscle disease and find that genes that regulate myonuclear movement and positioning have been linked to muscular dystrophy. Although the cause-effect relationship is largely speculative, recent data indicate that the position of nuclei should no longer be considered only a means to diagnose muscle disease.
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TL;DR: In this article, the terms of trade effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) implemented in the 1990s are inferred for 40 countries plus a rest-of-the-world aggregate using an endowments general equilibrium model.
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TL;DR: The authors explored the growing array of initiatives aimed at creating corporate accountability with the goal of attempting to uncover the foundation principles that underlie them and create a "floor" below which practices are ethically questionable.
Abstract: This paper explores the growing array of initiatives aimed at creating corporate accountability with the goal of attempting to uncover the foundation principles that underlie them and create a “floor” below which practices are ethically questionable. Using the Global Compact's nine principles and the work of Transparency International as guides, foundational principles seem to exist in the areas of human rights, labor standards, environment, and anti-corruption initiatives.
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TL;DR: In this article, the SEC certified a fourth credit rating agency, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS), for use in bond investment regulations, and showed that bond yields change in the direction implied by the firm's DBRS rating relative to its ratings from other certified rating agencies.
Abstract: In February 2003, the SEC officially certified a fourth credit rating agency, Dominion Bond Rating Service (“DBRS”), for use in bond investment regulations. After DBRS certification, bond yields change in the direction implied by the firm’s DBRS rating relative to its ratings from other certified rating agencies. A one notch better DBRS rating corresponds to a 39 basis point reduction in a firm’s debt cost of capital. The impact on yields is driven by cases where the DBRS rating is better than other ratings and is larger among bonds rated near the investment-grade cutoff. These findings indicate that ratings-based regulations on bond investment affect a firm’s cost of debt capital.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how corporate social media affects the capital market consequences of firms' disclosure in the context of consumer product recalls, and show that the negative price reaction to recall announcements is attenuated by the frequency of tweets by the firm, while exacerbated by other users.
Abstract: We examine how corporate social media affects the capital market consequences of firms’ disclosure in the context of consumer product recalls. Product recalls constitute a “product crisis” exposing the firm to reputational damage, loss of future sales and legal liability. During such a crisis it is crucial for the firm to quickly and directly communicate its intended message to a wide network of stakeholders, which in turn, renders corporate social media a potentially useful channel of disclosure. While we document that corporate social media, on average, attenuates the negative price reaction to recall announcements, the attenuation benefits of corporate social media vary with the level of control the firm has over its social media content. In particular, with the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, firms relinquished complete control over their social media content, and the attenuation benefits of corporate social media, while still significant, lessened. Detailed Twitter analysis confirms that the moderating effect of social media varies with the level of firm involvement and with the amount of control exerted by other users: the negative price reaction to recall is attenuated by the frequency of tweets by the firm, while exacerbated by the frequency of tweets by other users.
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Eric J. Topol | 193 | 1373 | 151025 |
Gang Chen | 167 | 3372 | 149819 |
Wei Li | 158 | 1855 | 124748 |
Daniel L. Schacter | 149 | 592 | 90148 |
Asli Demirguc-Kunt | 137 | 429 | 78166 |
Stephen G. Ellis | 127 | 655 | 65073 |
James A. Russell | 124 | 1024 | 87929 |
Zhifeng Ren | 122 | 695 | 71212 |
Jeffrey J. Popma | 121 | 702 | 72455 |
Mike Clarke | 113 | 1037 | 164328 |
Kendall N. Houk | 112 | 997 | 54877 |
James M. Poterba | 107 | 487 | 44868 |
Gregory C. Fu | 106 | 381 | 32248 |
Myles Brown | 105 | 348 | 52423 |
Richard R. Schrock | 103 | 724 | 43919 |