... the gain: in this way the
number of offenses, 0,couldbe reduced almost at will. However, an in-
crease in p increases the social cost of offenses through its effect on the
cost of combating offenses, ... that the prob-
to the earnings of
prisonment and pos-
kegative relation for
the
sum isfixed, isin the
regard to the profit of the
y punishments should al-
ount ofthe fine should be
f the offender's ... nevertheless, a first approximation to the direct
social cost. If the theft or fraud industry is "competitive," the sum ofthe value of the
criminals' time input—including the time...
... many of these accumulation vehicles, the individual participant
bears the responsibility of determining the assets in which the funds
are
in-
vested and bears any uncertainty about the rate of ... depend on the value ofthe
stock portfolio at several selling dates rather than just its value on the date of
purchase ofthe annuity.
Several papers investigate the effect ofthe length of investment ...
Shoven
in the
AAUP
Bulletin,
published inthe summers of 1966 and 1967 by the
American Association of University Professors. Finally, over the period
1968-89, we construct
r(t)
using the...
... broadening the definition ofthe decision-making unit.’ Their work and
the work of others suggests that living arrangements may reflect bargaining
between the elderly and their children.* To ... determinants
of
living arrangements at a point in time are, there-
fore, quite likely to be correlated. Inthe parlance
of
discrete choice models,
this means that the assumption ofthe independence ... associate
professor ofeconomicsinthe Department
of
Economics and a member ofthe Cowles Foundation
for
Economic Research, Yale University. Laurence
J.
Kotlikoff is professor
of
economics...
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... 372-377). In general, the rarer the disease, the higher the
proportion of consanguineous marriage among the parents of affected individuals.
Similarly, the closer the inbreeding, the higher the effect. ... according to the Hardy-Weinberg law. In an inbred population with
inbreeding level F, the frequency of recessive homozygotes will be q
2
+ (1 – q)qF and
therefore the ratio ofthe frequency ofthe ... coming death during their remaining life, since the patient
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creation of entirely new proteins or the first family proteins. As a matter of course,...
... 10q23.33. The major isoform of renalase contains 342
amino acids comprising a signal peptide (amino acids 1–17), a flavin-adenine dinucleotide
(FAD) binding domain (amino acids 4–45), and a monoamine ... polymorphism inthe flavin-adenine dinucleotide-binding domain of
human renalase (Glu37Asp) has recently been described. This is the only reported common
coding single-nucleotide polymorphism inthe ... activation of MLXIPL. After activation and binding to the
MLX, the complex increases the transcription of genes involved, among others, in
lipogenesis and triglyceride synthesis. Since, elevated...