Contract Farming as a Last-resort Option to Finance Rice Cultivation in Senegal

Contract Farming and Poverty Reduction: the Case of Organic Rice Contract Farming in Thailand

Hospitals as Insurers of Last Resort

American hospitals are required to provide emergency medical care to the uninsured. We use previously confidential hospital financial data to study the resulting uncompensated care, medical care for which no payment is received. We use both panel-data methods and case studies from state-wide Medicaid disenrollments and find that the uncompensated care costs of hospitals increase in response to ...

Phenytoin as a last‐resort treatment in SCN8A encephalopathy

SCN8A encodes Nav1.6, one of the main voltage-gated sodium channel subunits in the brain, and SCN8A mutations lead to epileptic encephalopathy. Particular mutations render the mutant channel more susceptible to inhibition by phenytoin. Yet, the potentially severe side effects of phenytoin maintenance therapy, especially cognitive impairment, are undesirable in these already cognitively impaired...

Intentional replantation: a procedure as a last resort.

AIM To address the indications, contraindications, surgical procedure, complications following treatment, factors influencing the results and success rate of intentional replantation procedure. BACKGROUND Intentional replantation is extraction of a tooth to do extraoral root canal therapy, curettage of apical lesion when present, and its replacement in its socket. It has been proposed as an a...

Lender of Last Resort :

It has become commonplace in the current crisis to refer to the Federal Reserve as the economy’s lender of last resort (LLR). Typical is the observation of Glenn Hubbard, Hal Scott, and John Thornton (2009) that “Over many decades and especially in this financial crisis, the Fed has used its balance sheet to be a classical lender of last resort.” With all due respect to these authors and numero...