Nineteen recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 383 point estimates of the effect. This paper is a quantitative attempt to summarize the current state of debate; meta-analysis is used to combine the disparate estimates. The chief findings are that: a) the hypothesis that there is no effect of currency union on trade can be rejected at standard signi...

DEDICATION This dissertation is dedicated to the nineteen study participants. This work would not have been possible without their tremendous support and their willingness to share their stories. I commend them for the care they provided and for courageously accepting one of life's most difficult challenges. This dissertation is also dedicated to memory of my maternal grandmother, Anne Barry Sm...

is so strenuous that we may soon expect to see the subject filmed, and the sadistic character of the exponents of this method of treatment shown up by lime-light. I am surprised that hitherto no one has had the temerity to break a lance on the subject, and I can only conclude the reason to be that the practice of intramuscular injections appears to be almost universal in malarial countries, but...

AIMS To establish the norms for the letter-cancellation task-a psychomotor performance task. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight hundred nineteen school students were selected in the present study in an age range between nine and 16 years (M = 12.14; SD = 1.78 years). Subjects were assessed once for the cancellation task. RESULTS Both age and sex influenced performance on the SLCT; therefore, corre...

Nineteen open-fronted (class I) safety cabinets were subjected to spore containment and airflow tests, which suggested that a flow of 0.75 m/s was the minimum required for safe operation; further tests on three of the cabinets were repeated at different air speeds and confirmed this. The airflow is required to overcome the effect of laboratory or external air currents. Contamination of surfaces...

Community-based field experiences (CBFE) provide students with exemplary experiential learning opportunities. The purposes of this paper are to describe the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry (UKCD) CBFE and report the results of a two-year, self-report survey that assessed the primary course goal, students' perceptions of change in knowledge and skills related to nineteen areas of pat...

The goal of this study was to determine the repeatability of gait parameters measured by a force plate gait analysis system (Leonardo Mechanograph(®) GW) in healthy children. Nineteen healthy children and adolescents (age range: 7-17 years) walked at a self-selected speed on an 11-m-long walkway. Vertical ground reaction forces were measured in the central 6 m of the walkway. Each participant p...

The boy problem is difficult of solution at any age. It waxes acute, however, at the critical period of a boy's life technically called adolescence, beginning with the age of twelve and running until about nineteen. It is at this particular time that the great changes of life both physical and mental come upon him, the main directions of his life are fixed, and the foundations of his character ...

Kolmogorov complexity has intellectual roots in the areas of information theory, computability theory and probability theory. Despites its remarkably simple basis, it has some striking applications in Complexity Theory. The subject was developed by the Russian mathematician Andrei N. Kolmogorov (1903–1987) as an approach to the notion of random sequences and to provide an algorithmic approach t...

Muscle pain is often experienced by workers who have to move repeatedly and/or forcibly. The cumulative trauma disorder that results from repetitive movements is difficult to anticipate and prevent. The present study uses a rodent model to: (1) determine the factors which produce dysfunctional muscles, (2) document changes in the matrix and myofibers which lead to pathologic muscles, and (3) st...