the purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of the timing of bank failure/merger in 10 asian countries over the period of 1999-2007 using a multivariate logit model and a split population duration analysis. apart from bank-specific information, we also focus on the effects of macroeconomic and financial characteristics. the following empirical findings are obtained. first, the resu...

A retrospective review of therapeutic failures of miconazole in three patients is presented. Miconazole, a new imidazole derivative, is a broad-spectrum antifungal agent purportedly effective topically, orally, and parenterally against a number of species of fungi. Three patients with the following culturally proven deep fungal infections were treated with miconazole: (i) destructive arthritis ...

Fig. 1 The pH and oxidation reduction potential for growth of anaerobic bacteria able to reduce nitrate or sulfate (dots in plots) and for soils dominated by the microbial metabolism (boxes). Aerobic bacteria grow over a wide range of pH at Eh 300 mV (normal hydrogen electrode). Source: Ref 19 MICROORGANISMS can directly or indirectly affect the integrity of many materials used in industrial sy...

The study, first published in 2003, looks at the root causes of adverse events and near misses in obstetrics at seven hospital maternity units by interviewing 93 members of staff, identifying the areas of mismanagement in each case and thematically analysing them.

Motivated by showing that in ZFC we cannot construct a special Aronszajn tree on some cardinal greater than א1, we produce a model in which the approachability property fails (hence there are no special Aronszajn trees) at all regular cardinals in the interval [א2,אω2+3] and אω2 is strong limit.