The epidemiology of microbial keratitis has been investigated in several studies by analysis of organisms cultured from corneal scrapes. However, a comparison of the frequency of different organisms causing keratitis in different parts of the world is lacking. The authors present a review incorporating an analysis of data from studies worldwide. The data provide a comparison of the frequency of...

Sri Lanka is an island in the Indian subcontinent with approximately 21 million people [1]. The country has been recently identified as a Lower Middle Income Country (LMIC) based on World Bank ratings with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of 3800 USD in 2015 [1, 2]. With an excellent human development index, Sri Lanka boasts of excellent health indicators on par with high income countri...

Decision Trees are powerful and popular tools for prediction. These trees are especially useful where in addition to the accuracy of the prediction, the reason for the prediction is also important. This paper presents an application where these decision trees would be used to predict the gross income of a bollywood movie. The paper identifies several factors influencing a movie's income an...

The countryside and its supposed bedrock, farming, are commonly supposed to be under threat. What might the future hold? This article explores the major pressures and apparent opportunities facing agriculture and rural development in the Northern Region. It begins (section I) with a brief review of the recent economic history of the agricultural sector in Britain, drawing out the implications f...

Irish perinatal mortality rates have been falling steadily for a number of decades but evidence from the 1980s showed pronounced differentials in mortality rates across socio-economic groups. Between 1995 and 2006 Irish gross national product increased from 60 per cent of the EU average to 110 per cent. Real incomes increased across the income distribution during this period but income inequali...

This article applies the method of difference panel GMM Arellano-Bond for a dataset of eighty two developing countries (These countries are classified into three economies basing on estimates of gross national income (GNI) per capita for the 2014 year by using the World Bank Atlas method 1 ) during a period from 1996 to 2013 to empirically assess the impact of institutional quality (based on si...

The recently published World Health Organisation strategy document on road safety starts with the startling statistic that over 1.2 million people die each year on the world’s roads and, not surprisingly lowand middle-income countries have much higher road traffic fatality rates than high-income countries. Almost half of those who die on the roads are pedestrians, cyclists or users of motoriz...

BACKGROUND on an individual level, lower-income has been associated with disability, morbidity and death. On a population level, the relationship of economic indicators with health is unclear. OBJECTIVE the purpose of this study was to evaluate relative fitness and frailty in relation to national income and healthcare spending, and their relationship with mortality. DESIGN AND SETTING secon...