After Timor-Leste restored independence in 2002, the new nation established a rigorous system to manage oil and gas revenues activities, based on international best practice. Policymakers hoped that it would protect small from ‘resource curse’ which afflicts countries depend exporting non-renewable wealth. Within five years, petroleum exports were financing 85% of state budget comprised 75% GDP...

empirical evidence seems to indicate that economic growth has varied inversely with natural resource abundance across countries, in which high natural resources dependent economies experience the low economic growth. this paper first reviews the literature of resources curse and shows that the most important challenges of economic development of iran are those mechanisms that change the blessin...

We study the behavior of pivot-based algorithms for similarity searching in metric spaces. We show that they are eeective tools for intrinsically high-dimensional spaces, and that their performance is basically dependent on the number of pivots used and the precision used to store the distances. In this paper we give a simple yet eeective recipe for practitioners seeking for a black-box method ...

Most privacy-transformation methods such as k-anonymity or randomization use some kind of transformation on the data for privacy-preservation purposes. In many cases, the data can be indirectly identified with the use of a combination of attributes. Such attributes may be available from public records and they may be used to link the sensitive records to the target of interest. Thus, the sensit...

Angiogenesis, the growth of new blood vessels is essential during fetal development, female reproductive cycle, and tissue repair. In contrast, uncontrolled angiogenesis promotes the neoplastic disease and retinopathies, while inadequate angiogenesis can lead to coronary artery disease. A balance between pro-angiogenic and antiangiogenic growth factors and cytokines tightly controls angiogenesi...

a normal life span. It has recently been shown that CCHS confers risk for adverse neurocognitive outcome [3]. Visuoperceptual reasoning and clerical/ visuographic speed appear particularly vulnerable. In this issue of IMAJ, Cohen-Cymberknoh and colleagues [4] present an interesting and unusual case of a 12 year old girl with late-onset CCHS that was suspected and diagnosed only after she failed...

Orthopaedic surgeons rely on high-level data, objective studies, and evidence-based medicine when diagnosing and treating patients. While essential for patient care, framing this information when outlining outcome expectations and discussing surgical preparation may have some inadvertent consequences. Using best practices, orthopaedic surgeons may be guilty of “surgical hexing” simply by tellin...