Purpose. To assess the efficacy and safety of corneal transplantation using corneas from foreign donors. Methods. One hundred and eight patients needing therapeutic penetrating keratoplasty were randomly divided into 2 groups (54 cases/group): foreign group using foreign donor corneas and domestic group using domestic donor corneas. Clinical outcome and incidence of postoperative complications ...

The development of technology today is very undoubted so that information easy to access anytime and anywhere. ease accessing gives new enthusiasm for humans in developing or commonly referred as Geographic Information System (GIS). definition GIS itself a special system manages data has information, it can also be interpreted about the place location where geographical located. Batam city one ...

Introduction: It is predicted that tourism will be the most profitable industry in the world in 2020. The current study aimed to evaluate the influence of advertising on attracting foreign medical tourists based on the marketing mix model. Methods: In this descriptive study, participants (n=136) completed a standard questionnaire containing items on demog...

in the present study, the oxidative stability of nine iranian commercial olive oils, including four virgin samples and five deodorized ones, was compared to that of two foreign virgin olive oils. in total, the foreign samples had the mufa/pufa ratios (av. 9.27) higher than those of domestic ones (av. 5.70). the peroxide and acid values of the olive oils studied ranged from 8.5 to 14.5 meq/kg an...

BACKGROUND Rio de Janeiro in Brazil will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2016. About 400,000 non-immune foreign tourists are expected to attend the games. As Brazil is the country with the highest number of dengue cases worldwide, concern about the risk of dengue for travelers is justified. METHODS A mathematical model to calculate the risk of developing dengue for foreign tourists attending...

A telephone survey of domestic Australian tourists was conducted to determine the relative contribution they make to estimates of per capita alcohol consumption. The overall drinking patterns of interstate tourists were examined, along with contrasts between those who visit the Northern Territory and those who visit other parts of the country. The results show that drinking generally increased ...

This paper aims to investigate the causal relationship between foreign direct investment and gross domestic savings in Bangladesh over a period of 1985-2007. In doing so, Johansen cointegration technique and error correction methods are employed to examine the long run and short run relationship between foreign direct investment and gross domestic savings. To determine the direction of causalit...

This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of domestic firms. Using a specially designed survey on a sample of over 7,500 manufacturing firms in Vietnam we uncover some of the mechanisms that explain productivity spillovers from FDI through vertical linkages along the supply chain. Our results suggest that domestic firms exp...