T his paper examined whether monetary policy is acyclical, procyclical or countercyclical and the implications of the interaction of such cyclicality with industrial output on real economic growth in Nigeria. After determining the time series properties of the variables and based on conventional cyclicality measures, the fully modified ordinary least square method was used to examine...

T he financial crisis that was started in the last months of 2008, spread out to all world countries in short-term and had broken out as public debt in the European Union and Euro area. Most affected countries from this financial crisis had been Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain were named as PIIGS countries of Europe. The effect of public debt on economic growth had been a...

TOPIC: Transplantation TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Voriconazole-induced hepatoxicity is a well known dose-dependent adverse drug reaction. Its non-linear kinetics provides unique challenge to clinicians for therapeutic monitoring, in addition eliciting diagnosis. CASE PRESENTATION: A 30-year-old female with PMHx of cystic fibrosis s/p bilateral lung transplant 9/20...

Preparations from Cannabis sativa (marijuana) have been used for many centuries both medicinally and recreationally. However, the chemical structure of their active components – the cannabinoids – was not elucidated until the early 1960s. Among the E60 cannabinoids produced by marijuana, D-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the most relevant one owing to its high potency and abundance (Gaoni & Mecho...

Objectives. To describe the incidence and clinical features of invasive group A streptococcal (GAS) disease in children in Ontario and determine the risk of invasive GAS infection following chickenpox. Methods. During 1992–1996, we conducted prospective, active, population-based surveillance for pediatric invasive GAS disease in Ontario, Canada (population: 11 million; 2.5 million children) and...

Background Pausing methotrexate (MTX) for two to four weeks, improved immunogenicity of influenza vaccination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), albeit a risk disease flare (1). This guided the framing guidelines on MTX withdrawal COVID-19 (2). However, evidence is limited observational studies only. Objectives To compare efficacy and safety holding after each (MIVAC 1) only second dos...

In the age of digital health, a major focus lies on quantitative analysis large, high-dimensional patient data sets. The goal is to establish clinical decision making that informed by evidence from this big medical data. A particularly promising application domain and source for task are intensive care units (ICUs), which measure characteristics at high frequency hundreds variables, can benefit...

We study a dynamic version of Meltzer and Richard’s median-voter model of the size of government. Taxes are proportional to total income, and they are redistributed as equal lump-sum transfers. Voting takes place periodically over time, and each consumer votes for the tax rate that maximizes his equilibrium utility. We calibrate the model to match U.S. data. Key elements in the calibration are ...

We thank Mladkova et al.1Mladkova N. Lo S. Brown P.D. al.Hippocampal avoidance prophylactic cranial irradiation: interpreting the evidence.J Thorac Oncol. 2021; 16: e60-e63Scopus (1) Google Scholar for their important comments on our phase 3 randomized trial of irradiation (PCI) with or without hippocampus (HA) in SCLC (NCT01780675).2Belderbos J.S. De Ruysscher D.K. Jaeger K. al.Phase III (NCT0...