since some of the institutions and instruments in iran are different from those in other countries it appears to he a difficult task to find equivalent terminology in farsi fur financial terms applied in english and french. by the same t o k e n. direct translation of the western financial jargons t o farsi results in misunderstanding at best and confusion at worst. we have asked hosseein abdoh...

This paper evaluates village-level micro nance institutions in rural and semi-urban Thailand using data from a large strati ed, clustered cross-sectional survey. As is typically the case, micronance institutions have emerged in Thailand without the bene t of experimental controls. Thus, the data has neither randomized participation nor program placement. In addition, we do not study a pre-speci...

at the causes of the financial crisis and subsequent recession. He argues that much of what went wrong can be analysed using standard economic tools. The Great Moderation was a period of unusually stable macroeconomic activity in advanced economies. This was partly thanks to good luck, including the integration of emerging market countries into the global economy, and partly a dividend from str...

The four major penal institutions for men in Washington state were surveyed in June 1983, to assess the quality of tuberculosis screening and the proportion of residents who were reactors. A total of 4,744 medical charts of current residents were reviewed of which 4,269 (90.0 percent) had skin test results recorded. The proportion of inmates residing in the four institutions during 1983 who wer...

This report documents the prompt, co-ordinated and effective public health response to a measles outbreak in Queensland in 2013. There were 17 cases in a large, high-security, regional correctional facility, a setting with unique challenges. Recommendations are provided to reduce the likelihood and magnitude of measles outbreaks in correctional facilities.

The focus of the report Revolutionizing Science and Engineering Through Cyberinfrastructure (Atkins et.al., 2003) is the construction of a layer of “enabling hardware, algorithms, software, communications, institutions, and personnel”. This cyberinfrastructure layer would lie above a hardware layer supporting computing, storage, and communications but below a layer of “software programs, servic...

One of the major problems confronting healthcare professionals is the control of pathogenic organisms. This is because microorganisms are present in our environment and may contaminate healthcare instruments from time to time. An autoclave was designed and constructed to sterilize materials/items used in such healthcare institutions. The autoclave has a liquid capacity of 2 litres and is heated...

This paper presents and discusses the research rationale adopted to study the institutional perspective of the Portuguese higher education institutions as far as the use of communication technologies to support education is concerned. The paper presents the research questions, the analysis model, the methodology used and the outline of the data collection instruments developed. Some preliminary...