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DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319516.v1
title: Interleukin-8 is increased in chronic kidney disease in children, but not related to cardiovascular disease

description: Abstract Introduction: In this study, we aimed to detect the cytokine that is involved in the early stage of chronic kidney disease and associated with cardiovascular disease. Methods: We included 50 patients who were diagnosed with predialytic chronic kidney disease and 30 healthy pediatric patients in Ege University Medical Faculty Pediatric Clinic, İzmir/Turkey. Interleukin-8 (IL-8), interleukin-10 (IL-10), interleukin-13 (IL-13), and transforming grow factor-β1 (TGF-β1) levels (pg/mL) were measured by ELISA. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV), augmentation index (Aix), carotid intima media thickness (cIMT), and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) were evaluated as markers of cardiovascular disease. The presence of a cardiovascular disease marker was defined as an abnormality in any of the parameters (cIMT, PWV, Aix, and left ventricular mass index (SVKI)). The patient group was divided into two groups as with and without cardiovascular disease. Results: Mean Aix and PWV values were higher in CKD patients than controls (Aix: CKD 32.8±11.11%, healthy subjects: 6.74±6.58%, PWV CKD: 7.31±4.34m/s, healthy subjects: 3.42±3.01m/s, respectively; p=0.02, p=0.03). The serum IL-8 levels of CKD were significantly higher than of healthy subjects 568.48±487.35pg/mL, 33.67±47.47pg/mL, respectively (p&lt;0.001). There was no statistically significant difference between IL-8, IL-10, IL-13, TGF-1, in CKD patients with and without cardiovascular disease (p&gt; 0.05). Discussion: IL-8 is the sole cytokine that increases in pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease among other cytokines (IL-10, IL-13 and TGF-β1). However, we did not show that IL-8 is related to the presence of cardiovascular disease.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319516
title: Interleukin-8 is increased in chronic kidney disease in children, but not related to cardiovascular disease

description: Abstract Introduction: In this study, we aimed to detect the cytokine that is involved in the early stage of chronic kidney disease and associated with cardiovascular disease. Methods: We included 50 patients who were diagnosed with predialytic chronic kidney disease and 30 healthy pediatric patients in Ege University Medical Faculty Pediatric Clinic, İzmir/Turkey. Interleukin-8 (IL-8), interleukin-10 (IL-10), interleukin-13 (IL-13), and transforming grow factor-β1 (TGF-β1) levels (pg/mL) were measured by ELISA. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV), augmentation index (Aix), carotid intima media thickness (cIMT), and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) were evaluated as markers of cardiovascular disease. The presence of a cardiovascular disease marker was defined as an abnormality in any of the parameters (cIMT, PWV, Aix, and left ventricular mass index (SVKI)). The patient group was divided into two groups as with and without cardiovascular disease. Results: Mean Aix and PWV values were higher in CKD patients than controls (Aix: CKD 32.8±11.11%, healthy subjects: 6.74±6.58%, PWV CKD: 7.31±4.34m/s, healthy subjects: 3.42±3.01m/s, respectively; p=0.02, p=0.03). The serum IL-8 levels of CKD were significantly higher than of healthy subjects 568.48±487.35pg/mL, 33.67±47.47pg/mL, respectively (p&lt;0.001). There was no statistically significant difference between IL-8, IL-10, IL-13, TGF-1, in CKD patients with and without cardiovascular disease (p&gt; 0.05). Discussion: IL-8 is the sole cytokine that increases in pediatric patients with chronic kidney disease among other cytokines (IL-10, IL-13 and TGF-β1). However, we did not show that IL-8 is related to the presence of cardiovascular disease.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319519
title: Tropical Neomonetharism: The Brazilian Experience in the Nineties

description: ABSTRACT This paper reviews the performance of the Brazilian economy during the 1990s, in the light of the neomonetarist policy shift implemented unevenly but incrementally across this decade. The paper shows that this policy shift was associated with, and contributed to, a change in the structure of manufacturing industry, the financial deterioration of the public sector, the tightening of the balance of payments constraint, and increasing external economic dependence. These structural changes were largely responsible for the currency crisis of 1999. Subsequent policy measures have largely failed to address these weaknesses of the Brazilian economy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319519.v1
title: Tropical Neomonetharism: The Brazilian Experience in the Nineties

description: ABSTRACT This paper reviews the performance of the Brazilian economy during the 1990s, in the light of the neomonetarist policy shift implemented unevenly but incrementally across this decade. The paper shows that this policy shift was associated with, and contributed to, a change in the structure of manufacturing industry, the financial deterioration of the public sector, the tightening of the balance of payments constraint, and increasing external economic dependence. These structural changes were largely responsible for the currency crisis of 1999. Subsequent policy measures have largely failed to address these weaknesses of the Brazilian economy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319521.v1
title: Exchange Rate, Monetary, and Inflation Targets

description: ABSTRACT Since the beginning of the Quantitative Theory of Money by David Hume, the relation between money and price level has been analyzed by monetary economists. Nowadays the search for price stability has induced the policymakers to adopt one of three monetary regimes: fixed exchange rate, monetary targeting, or inflation targeting. The present paper makes a comparative analysis among these possibilities highlighting the advantages and disadvantages that belong to each monetary regime.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319521
title: Exchange Rate, Monetary, and Inflation Targets

description: ABSTRACT Since the beginning of the Quantitative Theory of Money by David Hume, the relation between money and price level has been analyzed by monetary economists. Nowadays the search for price stability has induced the policymakers to adopt one of three monetary regimes: fixed exchange rate, monetary targeting, or inflation targeting. The present paper makes a comparative analysis among these possibilities highlighting the advantages and disadvantages that belong to each monetary regime.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319520
title: Theory and Evidence of the Inflationary Targets Regime

description: ABSTRACT This article shows that the theory that supports the inflation targeting regime does not have a relationship with reality. Moreover, this stresses that monetary policy should be used to full capacity because it not only controls inflation, but is also useful to achieve real goals, such as employment. The article shows that there is no evidence that the regime reduced inflation in the 1990’s. Developed countries which adopted the regime and developed countries which did not adopt inflation targeting regime have both reduced and kept inflation under control.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319520.v1
title: Theory and Evidence of the Inflationary Targets Regime

description: ABSTRACT This article shows that the theory that supports the inflation targeting regime does not have a relationship with reality. Moreover, this stresses that monetary policy should be used to full capacity because it not only controls inflation, but is also useful to achieve real goals, such as employment. The article shows that there is no evidence that the regime reduced inflation in the 1990’s. Developed countries which adopted the regime and developed countries which did not adopt inflation targeting regime have both reduced and kept inflation under control.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319524
title: Governance, accoutability and responsiveness

description: ABSTRACT In order to analyze the institutionalization of alternative channels of participation in public policy making in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, the paper starts from the assumption that the relationship between accountability and responsiveness in the so called “new democracies” basically depends on the institutional design adopted and on its adequacy to the prevailing societal conditions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319524.v1
title: Governance, accoutability and responsiveness

description: ABSTRACT In order to analyze the institutionalization of alternative channels of participation in public policy making in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, the paper starts from the assumption that the relationship between accountability and responsiveness in the so called “new democracies” basically depends on the institutional design adopted and on its adequacy to the prevailing societal conditions.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319526
title: Investment Models: Methodology and Results

description: ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of the empirical studies on corporate financing patterns and firm’s investment behavior. In a frictionless world the Modigliani-Miller theorem holds as well as the neoclassical investment theory. However, in presence of imperfections resulting from information asymmetries internal finance is often less costly than external finance. The goal in this article is to show how empirical studies have examined the role of financial constraints and firm’s investment behavior.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319526.v1
title: Investment Models: Methodology and Results

description: ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of the empirical studies on corporate financing patterns and firm’s investment behavior. In a frictionless world the Modigliani-Miller theorem holds as well as the neoclassical investment theory. However, in presence of imperfections resulting from information asymmetries internal finance is often less costly than external finance. The goal in this article is to show how empirical studies have examined the role of financial constraints and firm’s investment behavior.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319528.v1
title: Restructuring of the International Financial System and Peripheral Countries

description: ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to present an evaluation of the international financial system reformulation propositions and their likely consequences for the national sovereignty of underdeveloped countries. To attain this objective, the article analyses the underlying rationale of the IMF’s main policy recommendations for the “new international financial architecture”, the new capital adequacy rules drawn by the Basle Committee, and the reform proposals for the IMF and the World Bank proposed by the US Congress and by the US government.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319528
title: Restructuring of the International Financial System and Peripheral Countries

description: ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to present an evaluation of the international financial system reformulation propositions and their likely consequences for the national sovereignty of underdeveloped countries. To attain this objective, the article analyses the underlying rationale of the IMF’s main policy recommendations for the “new international financial architecture”, the new capital adequacy rules drawn by the Basle Committee, and the reform proposals for the IMF and the World Bank proposed by the US Congress and by the US government.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319530
title: Business and Delays in Port Reform in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT The case of port modernization reform in Brazil encapsules the problems Brazilian reformers face. Although reform legislation was passed in 1993 (Law 8.630/93), many obstacles remain for full implementation of its provision. This article focuses on how business attitudes and actions deferred reform, and demonstrates how business is unable to contribute to reform implementation because of institutional obstacles and collective action problems. It then suggests a mechanism to overcoming these difficulties; specifically, it examines the evolution of corporatism and the value of constructing democratic close-knit policy communities meeting the needs of each sector. The empirical work is complemented with an unusual combination of three theoretical approaches to explain the political economy of institutional modernization: institutional economics as developed by Douglass North, the logic of collective action as elaborated by Mancur Olson, and policy network analysis as developed by Marsh and Rhodes, Jordan and Richardson.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319530.v1
title: Business and Delays in Port Reform in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT The case of port modernization reform in Brazil encapsules the problems Brazilian reformers face. Although reform legislation was passed in 1993 (Law 8.630/93), many obstacles remain for full implementation of its provision. This article focuses on how business attitudes and actions deferred reform, and demonstrates how business is unable to contribute to reform implementation because of institutional obstacles and collective action problems. It then suggests a mechanism to overcoming these difficulties; specifically, it examines the evolution of corporatism and the value of constructing democratic close-knit policy communities meeting the needs of each sector. The empirical work is complemented with an unusual combination of three theoretical approaches to explain the political economy of institutional modernization: institutional economics as developed by Douglass North, the logic of collective action as elaborated by Mancur Olson, and policy network analysis as developed by Marsh and Rhodes, Jordan and Richardson.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319531
title: Economic Reorganization, Labor Absorption and Qualification

description: ABSTRACT In the 90’s, the Brazilian society knew a very important process of economic and social changes. After a long period of the development centered in the internal market and local industrial base, a new economic policy was adopted aiming increase to the competitiveness of the industrial structure. The new economic dynamic induced the growth of the importation and reduced the importance of local productive base for internal market level. This dynamic has imposed systematic reductions of the formal employment level. The government argues that the employment problems are explained by the reduced level of the qualification of national workers. This paper shows that this dynamic is based in the unskilled labor force. It reinforced the low skill of the Brazilian labor market and doesn’t improve the competitiveness of national productive base. We don’t find indicators able to confirm the arguments of the actual economic policy.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319531.v1
title: Economic Reorganization, Labor Absorption and Qualification

description: ABSTRACT In the 90’s, the Brazilian society knew a very important process of economic and social changes. After a long period of the development centered in the internal market and local industrial base, a new economic policy was adopted aiming increase to the competitiveness of the industrial structure. The new economic dynamic induced the growth of the importation and reduced the importance of local productive base for internal market level. This dynamic has imposed systematic reductions of the formal employment level. The government argues that the employment problems are explained by the reduced level of the qualification of national workers. This paper shows that this dynamic is based in the unskilled labor force. It reinforced the low skill of the Brazilian labor market and doesn’t improve the competitiveness of national productive base. We don’t find indicators able to confirm the arguments of the actual economic policy.
DOI: 10.17870/bathspa.12310382.v1
title: Journeys with 'The Waste Land' - 300 Word Statement

description: <i>Journeys with 'The Waste Land'</i> was a major exhibition exploring the significance of T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land' through the visual arts. This was a three-year project to develop pioneering and innovative approaches towards curating and curatorial research. <br>This item contains the 300-word statement for the project.
DOI: 10.17870/bathspa.12310382
title: Journeys with 'The Waste Land' - 300 Word Statement

description: <i>Journeys with 'The Waste Land'</i> was a major exhibition exploring the significance of T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land' through the visual arts. This was a three-year project to develop pioneering and innovative approaches towards curating and curatorial research. <br>This item contains the 300-word statement for the project.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319534
title: Políticas de emprego em economias semi-industrializado

description: ABSTRACT The main objective of this paper is to analyze economic policy options to foster economic growth and the absorption of unemployment in the short run in open semi-industrialized economies. We take into account the existence of idle capacity, and we postulate that at least part of these capacities could be put to use in the short run, stimulating output growth even as equilibrium in the trade balance is maintained. We emphasize the necessity to combine competitiveness of the real exchange with price stability and with a fair distribution of income. We thus propose to counterbalance the negative effects of an increase in the exchange rate on workers’ purchasing power, with compensation achieved either through direct subsidies or reduction in the Value Added Tax for basic goods. With two econometric exercises carried out for Brazil and Mexico we empirically analyze the basic hypothesis of this paper.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319534.v1
title: Políticas de emprego em economias semi-industrializado

description: ABSTRACT The main objective of this paper is to analyze economic policy options to foster economic growth and the absorption of unemployment in the short run in open semi-industrialized economies. We take into account the existence of idle capacity, and we postulate that at least part of these capacities could be put to use in the short run, stimulating output growth even as equilibrium in the trade balance is maintained. We emphasize the necessity to combine competitiveness of the real exchange with price stability and with a fair distribution of income. We thus propose to counterbalance the negative effects of an increase in the exchange rate on workers’ purchasing power, with compensation achieved either through direct subsidies or reduction in the Value Added Tax for basic goods. With two econometric exercises carried out for Brazil and Mexico we empirically analyze the basic hypothesis of this paper.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319536.v1
title: The role of a special insurance agency for loans in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT This paper suggests a Special Insurance Agency (SIA) for the financing of innovative investments. The objective of this Agency is to establish a link between the banking system and the innovation system. This paper evaluates the Brazilian banking system and the national system of innovation and suggests an institutional innovation. This Special Insurance Agency would support an increase in the amount of private resources allocated to the financing of innovative activities, both for established firms and for new firms. This Special Insurance Agency might rearrange the division of labor among the institutions of the Brazilian system of innovation.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4639648
title: SciExpeM - 10.5281/zenodo.4639648

description: "Shock tube study on ignition delay of hydrogen and evaluation of various kinetic models" Erjiang Hu, Lun Pan, Zhenhua Gao, Xin Lu, Xin Meng, Zuohua Huang
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319536
title: The role of a special insurance agency for loans in Brazil

description: ABSTRACT This paper suggests a Special Insurance Agency (SIA) for the financing of innovative investments. The objective of this Agency is to establish a link between the banking system and the innovation system. This paper evaluates the Brazilian banking system and the national system of innovation and suggests an institutional innovation. This Special Insurance Agency would support an increase in the amount of private resources allocated to the financing of innovative activities, both for established firms and for new firms. This Special Insurance Agency might rearrange the division of labor among the institutions of the Brazilian system of innovation.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4639647
title: SciExpeM - 10.5281/zenodo.4639648

description: "Shock tube study on ignition delay of hydrogen and evaluation of various kinetic models" Erjiang Hu, Lun Pan, Zhenhua Gao, Xin Lu, Xin Meng, Zuohua Huang
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319539
title: Deregulation of the Sugar and Alcohol Sector

description: ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to determine the most important actors and decisions arenas involved in the deregulation of the Brazilian sugar and alcohol sector, using concepts of Political Economy. The deregulation was conducted by actors from both Southeastern and Northeastern production regions (such as sugar cane farmers’ associations, sugar and alcohol producers’ unions and associations and workers’ unions) and by politicians from several sugarcane production regions, whose conflicting interests influenced the decision makers. CIMA was the main decision arena. The main actors determining public policies for the sector are the congressmen and the State and Municipal governments.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319539.v1
title: Deregulation of the Sugar and Alcohol Sector

description: ABSTRACT The objective of this article is to determine the most important actors and decisions arenas involved in the deregulation of the Brazilian sugar and alcohol sector, using concepts of Political Economy. The deregulation was conducted by actors from both Southeastern and Northeastern production regions (such as sugar cane farmers’ associations, sugar and alcohol producers’ unions and associations and workers’ unions) and by politicians from several sugarcane production regions, whose conflicting interests influenced the decision makers. CIMA was the main decision arena. The main actors determining public policies for the sector are the congressmen and the State and Municipal governments.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.14319540
title: Municipal budget and planning: a case study

description: ABSTRACT The present article searches to evaluate the efficiency of planning in the municipal area, within the period of 1989 to 1997, aiming to establish if the variable inflation determines higher or lower levels considering the municipal adjusting. For this, it was used as data base the budget of 67 municipal districts of the Medium Plateau region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. The methodological process implied the construction of efficient indexes, evaluated through the adjust grade of the budget variable. It was verified that: a) the variable inflation is not the only determining of the municipal planning adjusting; b) It exists, in the municipal technical staff, lack and deficiency about the planning and the discipline (technical) budget; c) The absence of a formal and established process that could evaluate the budget proposals, in the discussion and approval of the laws, considering this a legislative responsibility. Therefore, it concludes that the legislators, mainly in the period of price establishment, were not efficient considering the exercise of their jobs, judgment, discussion and approval of the budget laws in the cities of the Medium Plateau Region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, since they permitted the systematic superevaluation budget, which proposed the generation of a series of deficits.
DOI: 10.17870/bathspa.12311864
title: Journeys with 'The Waste Land' - Research Time line and Research Questions

description: <i>Journeys with 'The Waste Land'</i> was a major exhibition exploring the significance of T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land' through the visual arts. This was a three-year project to develop pioneering and innovative approaches towards curating and curatorial research.<br><br>This item contains the research time lines and questions.