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Southern Illinois University Carbondale
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About: Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a education organization based out in Carbondale, Illinois, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 13570 authors who have published 24819 publications receiving 667385 citations. The organization is also known as: SIU Carbondale & SIUC.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a density functional theory with a plane wave basis set was used to study the stability of planar and layered platinum clusters, and the results showed that planar platinum clusters of up to nine atoms are as stable as their three-dimensional isomers.
Abstract: Platinum clusters of up to 55 atoms were studied using density functional theory with a plane wave basis set. The results show that planar platinum clusters of up to nine atoms are as stable as their three-dimensional isomers and the six-atom planar cluster is, surprisingly, more stable than its three-dimensional isomers. Among the three-dimensional platinum clusters investigated in this work, the layered clusters are found to be as stable as their spherical close-packed isomers. The high stability of planar and layered clusters suggests that it is easy to grow a platinum monolayer or multilayer. The existence of many energetically possible isomers shows a fluxional structural characteristic of platinum clusters. The effect of the spin−orbit coupling was investigated, and the results show that the relative stability of the Pt clusters is not affected although the binding energy of the cluster increases if the spin−orbit coupling is included in the calculation. Most of the platinum clusters studied here sh...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a nonparametric frontier approach to measure the technical efficiency of a sample of U.S. banks and found that most of this inefficiency is due to pure technical inefficiency rather than scale inefficiency.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed the efficiency and equality consequences of various school finance reforms using a cost-indirect output distance function, which is a natural measure of performance that is closely related to Farrell-type measures of efficiency.
Abstract: Equality and efficiency are key issues in educational reform. Here the authors analyze the efficiency and equality consequences of various school finance reforms using a cost-indirect output distance function. This function readily models multiple-output production under conditions of budgetary constraint, and provides a natural measure of performance that is closely related to Farrell-type measures of efficiency. The analysis suggests that despite school district inefficiency, finance reforms can affect student achievement. However, any potential gains in output from redistribution are dwarfed by the potential gains from increased efficiency. More strikingly, the analysis demonstrates that budgetary reforms designed to equalize expenditures could actually increase the inequality of student achievement.
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TL;DR: 7-DHC can form 7-DHP through P450scc side-chain cleavage, which may serve as a substrate for further conversions into hydroxy derivatives through existing steroidogenic enzymes, and has the potential to generate a variety of molecules depending on local steroidogenic activity and access to UVB.
Abstract: Following up on our previous findings that the skin possesses steroidogenic activity from progesterone, we now show widespread cutaneous expression of the full cytochrome P450 side-chain cleavage (P450scc) system required for the intracellular catalytic production of pregnenolone, i.e. the genes and proteins for P450scc enzyme, adrenodoxin, adrenodoxin reductase and MLN64. Functionality of the system was confirmed in mitochondria from skin cells. Moreover, purified mammalian P450scc enzyme and, most importantly, mitochondria isolated from placenta and adrenals produced robust transformation of 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC; precursor to cholesterol and vitamin D3) to 7-dehydropregnenolone (7-DHP). Product identity was confirmed by comparison with the chemically synthesized standard and chromatographic, MS and NMR analyses. Reaction kinetics for the conversion of 7-DHC into 7-DHP were similar to those for cholesterol conversion into pregnenolone. Thus, 7-DHC can form 7-DHP through P450scc side-chain cleavage, which may serve as a substrate for further conversions into hydroxy derivatives through existing steroidogenic enzymes. In the skin, 5,7-steroidal dienes (7-DHP and its hydroxy derivatives), whether synthesized locally or delivered by the circulation, may undergo UVB-induced intramolecular rearrangements to vitamin D3-like derivatives. This novel pathway has the potential to generate a variety of molecules depending on local steroidogenic activity and access to UVB.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the long-term and short-term relationships between the US stock price index (S&P 500) and six macroeconomic variables over the period 1975:1-1999:4.
Abstract: This study investigates the long-term and short-term relationships between the US stock price index (S&P 500) and six macroeconomic variables over the period 1975:1–1999:4. We observe that the stock prices negatively relate to the long-term interest rate, but positively relate to the money supply, industrial production, inflation, the exchange rate and the short-term interest rate. In the Granger causality sense, every macroeconomic variable causes the stock prices in the long-run but not in the short-run. Moreover, these results are also supported by the VDC, i.e. the stock prices are relatively exogenous in relation to other variables because almost 87% of its own variance is explained by its own stock even after 24 months.
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Pulickel M. Ajayan | 176 | 1223 | 136241 |
Russel J. Reiter | 169 | 1646 | 121010 |
Derek R. Lovley | 168 | 582 | 95315 |
Martin B. Keller | 131 | 541 | 65069 |
Kurunthachalam Kannan | 126 | 820 | 59886 |
John P. Giesy | 114 | 1162 | 62790 |
Michael L. Blute | 112 | 527 | 45296 |
Jianjun Liu | 112 | 1040 | 71032 |
Janusz Pawliszyn | 109 | 788 | 52082 |
Wei Zhang | 104 | 2911 | 64923 |
Horst Zincke | 101 | 375 | 30818 |
Janet R. Daling | 100 | 354 | 31957 |
Eric Lam | 99 | 492 | 34893 |
Sergei V. Kalinin | 95 | 999 | 37022 |
John C. Cheville | 90 | 433 | 32806 |