Maria jose Diaz

How could a primitive credit market finance the early industrialisation of an underdeveloped economy? To answer this question, we use a hand-collected data set of mortgage loans raised by industrial firms in the city of São Paulo during the period 1866-1914. These mortgages were debt obligations collateralised by land, improvements, machinery and equipment. We argue that the mortgage credit market was a key source of funding for early industrial investments in Brazil. We find that industries were mainly funded by non-banking and domestic agents. The empirical evidence suggests that mortgages were an important proxy for industrial investment.

Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRPM) allows to image endocytosis in-vivo with exquisite spatial-temporal resolution. Regions covered by endocytic fluorescent-tagged proteins overlap forming random clumps of different sizes, shapes and durations. We model the areas associated with endocytic events by means of temporal random sets and estimate the duration distribution of endocytic events from the covariance function. A simulation study

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in relatives of intensive care unit (ICU) patients has not been fully described. We studied potential relationships between PTSD and specific patients' conditions and relatives' psychologic characteristics. This is a prospective study of family caregivers of ICU patients. Patients' clinical and physiologic variables were recorded. At admission (time I), family…