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Pompeu Fabra University
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About: Pompeu Fabra University is a education organization based out in Barcelona, Spain. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Gene. The organization has 8093 authors who have published 23570 publications receiving 858431 citations. The organization is also known as: Universitat Pompeu Fabra & UPF.
Topics: Population, Gene, European union, Genome, Context (language use)
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TL;DR: In this paper, the current state of the art and three alternative scenarios for the future, in terms of costs, market penetration and environmental performance, are sketched and compared to these scenarios, if economic incentives are supported long enough into the next ten to twenty years, PV looks set for a rosy future and is likely to play a significant role in the future energy mix, while at the same time contributing to reduce the environmental impact of electricity supply.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of monetary policy on bank risk-taking and pricing of bank loans in Bolivia has been analyzed and the authors find that a decrease in the US federal funds rate prior to loan origination raises the monthly probability of default on individual bank loans.
Abstract: We analyse the impact of monetary policy on bank risk-taking and pricing. Bolivia provides us with an excellent experimental setting to identify this impact. Its small economy is not synchronized with the US economy but its banking system is almost fully dollarized. Consequently the US federal funds rate is the appropriate measure of monetary policy. We study the impact of the federal funds rate on the riskiness and pricing of new bank loans granted in Bolivia between 1999 and 2003, a period of significant variation in the federal funds rate. We find robust evidence that a decrease in the US federal funds rate prior to loan origination raises the monthly probability of default on individual bank loans. We also find that initiating loans with a subprime credit rating or loans to riskier borrowers with current or past non-performance become more likely when the federal funds rate is low. However, loan spreads do not increase, seemingly even decrease, in changes in the probability of default. Hence banks do not seem to price the additional risk taken. Furthermore, banks with more liquid assets and less funds from foreign financial institutions take more risk when the federal funds rate is low, and reduce loan spreads more despite the additional risk they seemingly take.
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TL;DR: The hypothesis that bilinguals’ early capacities to track their native languages separately and learn about the properties of each may be at the origin of such differences provides a basis for explaining the ontogeny of the general cognitive advantages of bilinguals.
Abstract: The origins of the bilingual advantage in various cognitive tasks are largely unknown. We tested the hypothesis that bilinguals' early capacities to track their native languages separately and learn about the properties of each may be at the origin of such differences. Spanish-Catalan bilingual and Spanish or Catalan monolingual infants watched silent video recordings of French-English bilingual speakers and were tested on their ability to discern when the language changed from French to English or vice versa. The infants' performance was compared with that of previously tested French-English bilingual and English monolingual infants. Although all groups of monolingual infants failed to detect the change between English and French, both groups of bilingual infants succeeded. These findings reveal that bilingual experience can modulate the attentional system even without explicit training or feedback. They provide a basis for explaining the ontogeny of the general cognitive advantages of bilinguals.
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TL;DR: It is shown by in vivo coprecipitation and phosphorylation studies that Sko1 and Hog1 interact and thatSko1 is phosphorylated upon osmotic stress in a Hog1‐dependent manner.
Abstract: Exposure of yeast to increases in extracellular osmolarity activates the Hog1 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), which is essential for the induction of gene expression required for cell survival upon osmotic stress. Several genes are regulated in response to osmotic stress by Sko1, a transcriptional repressor of the ATF/CREB family. We show by in vivo coprecipitation and phosphorylation studies that Sko1 and Hog1 interact and that Sko1 is phosphorylated upon osmotic stress in a Hog1-dependent manner. Hog1 phosphorylates Sko1 in vitro at multiple sites within the N-terminal region. Phosphorylation of Sko1 disrupts the Sko1–Ssn6–Tup1 repressor complex, and consistently, a mutant allele of Sko1, unphosphorylatable by Hog1, exhibits less derepression than the wild type. Interestingly, Sko1 repressor activity is further enhanced in strains with high protein kinase A (PKA) activity. PKA phosphorylates Sko1 near the bZIP domain and mutation of these sites eliminates modulation of Sko1 responses to high PKA activity. Thus, Sko1 transcriptional repression is controlled directly by the Hog1 MAPK in response to stress, and this effect is further modulated by an independent signaling mechanism through the PKA pathway.
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Barcelona Biomedical Research Park1, Copenhagen Zoo2, University of Copenhagen3, University of Bern4, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics5, University of Cambridge6, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute7, Pompeu Fabra University8, University of Tartu9, Max Planck Society10, University of Ferrara11, University of Chicago12, Arizona State University13, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies14
TL;DR: It is found that chimpanzee population substructure makes genetic information a good predictor of geographic origin at country and regional scales and also provides population-specific genetic markers that may be valuable for conservation efforts.
Abstract: Our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, have a complex demographic history We analyzed the high-coverage whole genomes of 75 wild-born chimpanzees and bonobos from 10 countries in Africa We found that chimpanzee population substructure makes genetic information a good predictor of geographic origin at country and regional scales Multiple lines of evidence suggest that gene flow occurred from bonobos into the ancestors of central and eastern chimpanzees between 200,000 and 550,000 years ago, probably with subsequent spread into Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees Together with another, possibly more recent contact (after 200,000 years ago), bonobos contributed less than 1% to the central chimpanzee genomes Admixture thus appears to have been widespread during hominid evolution
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Andrei Shleifer | 171 | 514 | 271880 |
Paul Elliott | 153 | 773 | 103839 |
Bert Brunekreef | 124 | 806 | 81938 |
Philippe Aghion | 122 | 507 | 73438 |
Anjana Rao | 118 | 337 | 61395 |
Jordi Sunyer | 115 | 798 | 57211 |
Kenneth J. Arrow | 113 | 411 | 111221 |
Xavier Estivill | 110 | 673 | 59568 |
Roderic Guigó | 108 | 304 | 106914 |
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen | 107 | 647 | 49080 |
Jordi Alonso | 107 | 523 | 64058 |
Alfonso Valencia | 106 | 542 | 55192 |
Luis Serrano | 105 | 452 | 42515 |
Vadim N. Gladyshev | 102 | 490 | 34148 |
Josep M. Antó | 100 | 493 | 38663 |