… Cellular entry of SARS-CoV-2 depends on binding of the viral spike (S) protein to cellular
receptors such as angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor, which is expressed in …

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease involving
neurodegeneration of dopaminergic neurons of the substantia nigra (SN), a part of the midbrain. …

Using a novel information asymmetry index based on measures of adverse selection
developed by the market microstructure literature, we test whether information asymmetry is an …

Literature suggests that persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are at risk for cognitive
impairment, hence dementia. Common domains reported to be affected in those with T2DM …

… Specifically, we examine how accounting quality affects the borrower’s choice of private
versus public debt market and how the design of debt contracts vary with accounting quality in …

We examine the accuracy and contribution of the Merton distance to default (DD) model,
which is based on Merton's (1974) bond pricing model. We compare the model to a “naïve” …

We find that repeated borrowing from the same lender translates into a 10–17 bps lowering
of loan spreads and that relationships are especially valuable when borrower transparency …

New drugs are required to counter the tuberculosis (TB) pandemic. Here, we describe the
synthesis and characterization of 1,3-benzothiazin-4-ones (BTZs), a new class of …

… That is, we reduce our sample to those transactions for which the lead bank(s) was among
the top 40 in the previous year. This allows us to retain 73% of our original sample as the top …

Using data on defaulted firms in the United States over the period 1982–1999, we show that
creditors of defaulted firms recover significantly lower amounts in present-value terms when …