OBJECTIVE To ascertain whether there are incremental risks associated with thyroid surgery in the elderly population. DESIGN Prospective analysis of a consecutive single-surgeon series of patients undergoing thyroid surgery at an academic health center. SETTING Tertiary care health center. PATIENTS The study included patients aged 21 to 35 years and patients 65 years and older who underwe...

We present a microlevel study to simultaneously investigate the effects of variations in temperature and precipitation along with sudden natural disasters to infer their relative influence on migration that is likely permanent. The study is made possible by the availability of household panel data from Indonesia with an exceptional tracking rate combined with frequent occurrence of natural disa...

introduction one of the most important aspects of urban planning and management in iran, is disaster planning management, because many regions of the country are vulnerable to natural disasters, especially earthquakes. many iranians are losing their lives each year because of this disaster. for this, constructing of temporary housing is one of the most important steps in the process of disaster...

In this paper, we present the process of rebalancing the line at motorcycle-assembly plant. The company found it necessary to rebalance its line, since it needs to increase production in the spring and summer months. The main characteristics of the problem are as follows: (i) the company hires temporary staff, who need more time to carry out their tasks than permanent workers; (ii) there must a...

INTRODUCTION Elderly men with multiple comorbidities may be unfit to undergo surgical management of benign prostatic obstruction (BPO). Permanent and temporary prostatic stents have been developed as an alternative to chronic indwelling catheters in men unfit for surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS Herein we review the past and present literature on the role and effectiveness of prostatic stents i...

The number of nonpermanent employees is rising, but mortality in this group has received little attention. The authors examined the associations between temporary employment and all-cause and cause-specific mortality. Longitudinal data from 10 towns in Finland related to 26,592 men and 65,759 women, of whom 1,332 died between 1990 and 2001. Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, occu...

Business people and professionals come together regularly at trade fairs, exhibitions, conventions, congresses, and conferences. Here, their latest and most advanced findings, inventions and products are on display to be evaluated by customers and suppliers, as well as by peers and competitors. Participation in events like these helps firms to identify the current market frontier, take stock of...

We look for permanent effects to per capita GDP from exogenous, temporary shocks. Our shocks are temporary changes to the export revenues of small, open economies. We find no evidence that even the largest of these temporary shocks, in excess of 9.7% of GDP, produce permanent effects to the growth path of per capita GDP. The inability to reject a single-equilibrium world with shocks of this mag...

The growth rate of temporary help service employment is often considered to be a leading business cycle indicator because the firing and hiring of temporary help workers typically lead that of permanent workers. However, few studies in the literature focus on the mechanism that generates the lag between temporary and permanent growth. This paper investigates how firms extract signals of long-li...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the postoperative complications and to evaluate and stratify thyroglobulin (Tg) response associated with revision surgery for thyroid malignancy. STUDY DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTINGS Academic, tertiary care center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS All patients with regionally recurrent thyroid carcinoma and who underwent revision thyroid surgery by the senior aut...