The Turning Tide: How Vulnerable are Asian Corporates?

How Far Behind Are the South Asian Countries in Relation to East Asian

We define as South Asian countries those countries that start with Iran and end with Bangladesh in Asia. Wethen use export statistics in terms of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for 14 industrial sectors tomeasure distances of export capabilities for these countries in relation to the “Western” developed and EastAsian countries. Statistical methods such as multidimensional scaling and ...

Turning the Tide: How Payments for Ecosystem Services

Slowing and reversing tropical forest loss has long been a conservation priority. Traditional concerns 4 over the loss of habitat have been amplified by a growing awareness of the role of forests in the 5 global carbon cycle and as carbon sinks, with tropical deforestation accounting for 8-20% of 6 anthropogenic CO2 emissions (Solomon, 2007). Payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes are 7 ...

Turning the tide against tuberculosis.

Screening mammography: the turning of the tide?

that many of the legion of criticisms that have been placed at the door of the nbss simply do not hold up to scrutiny. But mud sticks, and so many observers who do not like the results of the nbss point again and again to the same " flaws. " One of Narod's most telling points is that the survival curves for the two arms of the Swedish trial continue to remain separate up to 29 years after the t...

Turning the Tide: Curbing Deceptive Yelp Behaviors

The popularity and influence of reviews, make sites like Yelp ideal targets for malicious behaviors. We present Marco, a novel system that exploits the unique combination of social, spatial and temporal signals gleaned from Yelp, to detect venues whose ratings are impacted by fraudulent reviews. Marco increases the cost and complexity of attacks, by imposing a tradeoff on fraudsters, between th...