development of financial markets as an important factor in the economic growth process always has been of interest to economists. the purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between regional financial development and economic growth. this study uses provincial annual data over the period 2000-2011 by using panel data technique. the panel co integration techniques have been used to te...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the body mass index (bmi) and dental development. methods: the dental ages of 196 children were calculated according to demirjian’s method. the chronological age, weight, and height were recorded. dental development was defined as dental age minus chronological age. children were classified into three groups accord...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the body mass index (bmi) and dental development. methods: the dental ages of 196 children were calculated according to demirjian's method. the chronological age, weight, and height were recorded. dental development was defined as dental age minus chronological age. children were classified into three groups accord...

background: the human development index (hdi) is a composite statistic of life expectancy, education, and income per capita indicators, which apart from measuring the socio-economic development of countries can predict health outcomes. the current study aimed at determination of the effects of hdi individual components on infant and child mortality. materials and methods: at a cross- sectional ...

We use factor augmented vector autoregressive models with time-varying coeffi cients to construct a financial conditions index. The time-variation in the parameters allows for the weights attached to each financial variable in the index to evolve over time. Furthermore, we develop methods for dynamic model averaging or selection which allow the financial variables entering into the FCI to chang...