How Dirty Is Jayne Anne Phillips?

How Dirty are "Quick and Dirty" Methods of Project Appraisal?

Routine "quick-and-dirty" (QD) methods of project appraisal can be so dirty in guiding project selection as to wipe out the net social gains from public investment. A common QD method for estimating benefits from irrigation investments is tested using data for Viet Nam. The results are compared to impacts assessed through econometric modelling of marginal returns that allows for household and a...

Anne Brunet: Gracefully studying how we age

Why do we age? Is it inevitable? Lifespans vary across species as much as 150,000-fold, yet all sexually reproducing species eventually experience loss of function, sometimes sliding into senescence before succumbing to death. Research has pointed to genetic, epigenetic, metabolic, and environmental factors that figure in the aging process. However, the reasons behind organismal aging remain an...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Platelet Refractoriness and how it is formed

Abstract Background and Objectives Transfusion of platelet has become one of the main treatments for thrombocytopenic patients to reduce the severity and frequency of bleeding consequences. Failure to attain the desired level of platelets in a patient following platelet transfusion is defined as platelet refractoriness. The purpose of present paper is to review and study the mechanisms involve...

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