OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA with accompanying daytime sleepiness was estimated during the early 1990s to affect between 2% and 4% of middle-aged adults. With growing awareness of the public health implications of untreated disease and rising obesity rates that have increased the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea, there has been a steady demand for sleep service provision in specialist centers a...

Operation Resolute is a peace enforcement mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, which commenced on 20 December 1995. During Weeks 1-26 of the operation a total of 405 British personnel were repatriated on medical grounds, out of a mean force size of 9,299. We analysed these repatriations by clinical category and according to final destination. In addition we carried out a focused analysis of the 87 me...

The number of asylum rejections has increased in recent years, yet successful claims differ dependent on the originating county seekers. In 2018, European Union rejected 25 per cent 519,000 requests which it received (Eurostat, 2019). Kosovars were fourth-largest group seekers Europe 2015 and 96 them returned to Kosova. Rejected those who lose their temporary status are countries origin partly ...

The paper attempts to assess the fiscal, investment, and monetary repatriation results of application legislation on redomicilation organizations registered in offshore states Russian special administrative regions. study was conducted context fundamental adjustment agreements avoidance double taxation concluded with foreign countries, which began summer 2020 behalf President Federation. In thi...

The 2004 American Jobs Creation Act (AJCA or the Act) sought to encourage U.S. companies to repatriate foreign earnings and invest them domestically in an effort to increase capital spending and employment. This investigation looks at how the two tax provisions in AJCA, i.e., the repatriation tax holiday and the domestic production activities deduction (DPAD), affected domestic investment and p...

BACKGROUND The repatriation of patients from foreign hospitals can foster the emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MRB). We aimed to evaluate the incidence of MRB in patients treated in foreign hospitals and repatriated by international inter-hospital air transport in order to better manage these patients and adjust our procedures. METHODS The records from all consecutive aer...

It is not acceptable, former High Commissioner Ruud Lubbers said in 2001, that refugees spend years of their lives in confined areas. Yet the political failure to find durable solutions for refugees leads to precisely the kinds of protracted situations that degrade the displaced. Unable to return to their homeland, settle permanently in their country of first asylum or move to a third state, ma...

High levels of irregular or unauthorized migration have accompanied the rise of intraregional migration in Southeast Asia. During the period of economic expansion, irregular migrants moved to the more prosperous economies to take up jobs vacated by the local population and were generally tolerated. The recession in the mid-1980s brought out concerns about the negative impacts of irregular migra...

Offshore employees (expatriates) working abroad are an important part of any organisational workforce, working and competing globally. The specific requirements of expatriates are quite different as compared to the local workforce of that particular company. These requirements range from base salary to the educational needs of their families, children, and spouses. The employers especially work...