“Siamese” Twins

Siamese Twins

A woman, aged 40, had already had four children and this was the fifth pregnancy. She was well nourished. Tier pulse was 120, respiration 30, blood pressure 170/90, and temperature 98.8?F. She was very edematous?her legs, abdomen, and face were extremely swollen. Labour pains had started 18 hours previously. pains were strong and membranes had not yet ruptured. I advised her to come at once to ...

Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

We develop a model of human capital formation with endogenous labor supply and heterogeneous agents to explore the optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal schedule of the labor income tax. If the government can observe inputs into the production of human capital, subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and labor taxes are more progressive than ...

Budgeting and Rebudgeting in Local Governments: Siamese Twins?

Th e literature on budgeting in the public sector has traditionally focused on the annual budgetary process. Much less attention has been paid to rebudgeting—that is, what governments do to revise and update their budgets during the fi scal year. Because of its potentially large impact on appropriations, rebudgeting seemingly deserves more attention than it has been granted so far. Th is articl...

Composite eggs and Siamese twins in paedogenetic gall midges.

Several types of composite eggs were found in two species of paedogenetic gall midges. One composite egg, consisting of two blastoderms, was cultured in vitro, and its development was recorded on film. Two other composite eggs were fixed in the oocyte stage; each contained two nurse chambers, two egg chambers and one oocyte nucleus. Some other 'eggs' are described, which consisted merely of a n...

MMPs and rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts: Siamese twins in joint destruction?