Index annuel 1989

[Faits saillants du Forum annuel].

Chers collègues, Lorsque le Collège a adopté un plus petit CA, axé sur les compétences, il s’est engagé à impliquer davantage les Sections provinciales, les leaders qui siègent sur nos comités, nos sections et nos groupes de travail et les départements universitaires de médecine de famille, afin d’obtenir des rétroactions sur certaines questions stratégiques. En juin dernier, plus de 120 membre...

: 1989 – 2009

Armed Conflict , 1989 – 2002

A total of 226 armed conflicts have been recorded for the period 1946–2002.1 During the period 1989–2002, there were 116 armed conflicts in 79 locations around the world (Table I). In 2002, there were 31 conflicts active in 24 places, both figures being lower than in 2001 (Gleditsch et al., 2002). The number of wars decreased significantly from 11 to 5 in 2002. This was due to the fact that the...

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This article examines how accounting transparency and corporate governance interact. Firms with better governance are associated with higher abnormal returns, but even more so if they also have higher transparency. The effect is largely monotonic—it is small and insignificant for opaque firms and large and significant for transparent firms—and survives numerous robustness tests. We find support...

Norbert Freinkel (1926?1989)

During the twentieth century, Norbert Freinkel studied hormones [2] and diabetes in the United States. Freinkel conducted many experiments that enabled him to determine the factors that influence hormones [2] of the thyroid gland and how those hormones [2] affect surrounding tissues. Furthermore, Freinkel studied gestational diabetes, which is diabetes that occurs for the first time during a wo...