Abstract Background Results of previous trials about PFO closure as a treatment for migraine are still doubtful and inconclusive. We sought to evaluate the long–term (>10 years) effectiveness by means patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure. Methods From 2006 2010, 86 patients (68 female, mean age 40.0 ±3.7 with disabling, medication–refractory were enrolled in prospective study over 48–month...

The movement of a wheelchair with manual propulsion depends on the kinematics human body and forces exerted by muscles. To design innovative systems, biomechanical parameters resulting from interaction in this anthropotechnical system must be formalised. research objectives were thus adopted: an analysis wheel angle rotation hand movement’s trajectory mathematical formalisation described as fun...

We compute the light-hadron mass spectrum at b55.7 using the O(a)-improved Sheikholeslami-Wohlert fermion action with two choices of the clover coefficient: the classical value c51 and a mean-field or tadpole-improved estimate c51.57. We compare our results with those of the GF11 Collaboration who use the Wilson fermion action (c50). We find that changing c from zero to 1 and 1.57 leads to sign...

This paper studies the impact of public infrastructure on economic performance. We employ three di¤erent methodologies to estimate the returns to public investment. First, we relate growth in total factor productivity to accumulation of public capital. Second, we assess the role of public capital as an input to production. Third, we evaluate the reduction in costs that can be attributed to the ...

This paper constructs and estimates the demand for international tourism for the Italian Province of Sassari. The sample period under estimation is from 1972 to 1995. Three dynamic models are estimated at monthly, annual and quarterly data frequencies. Similarities and differences are explored amongst the three models, using recently developed econometric techniques. A “premodelling” data analy...

Using a small macroeconometric model that examines the determinants of India’s trade and inflation, this paper addresses the effects of a reform policy package similar to those implemented in 1991. Policy simulations using dynamic simulation method compare the responses to devaluation with the responses to tight credit policy. It is shown that the trade balance effects of tight credit policy ar...

This paper focusses on survey expectations and discusses their uses for testing and modeling of expectations. Alternative models of expectations formation are reviewed and the importance of allowing for heterogeneity of expectations is emphasized. A weak form of the rational expectations hypothesis which focusses on average expectations rather than individual expectations is advanced. Other mod...

Nonlinearities in the drift and diffusion coefficients influence temporal dependence in scalar diffusion models. We study this link using two notions of temporal dependence: β − mixing and ρ − mixing. We show that β − mixing and ρ − mixing with exponential decay are essentially equivalent concepts for scalar diffusions. For stationary diffusions that fail to be ρ−mixing, we show that they are s...

This paper explores some implications for valuation and investment of challenging the standard assumption that there are no aggregate pure profits in the US economy. First, it highlights the theoretical importance of monopoly rents for fluctuations in average Q. A series for such rents is then computed by assuming that production is Cobb-Douglas, as fluctuations in the output share of pure prof...