a 57-year-old male with history of prostatectomy, cyctectomy, cecal urinary diversion for invasive prostate cancer and with a recent rise in psa level, was referred for bone scintigraphy to rule out osseous metastatic disease. an interesting finding was abnormal tracer accumulation throughout the large bowel, which was proved to be due to urinary diversion.

This paper investigates the impact of the US and China’s foreign aids to Africa on trade flows between donor and recipient countries. Evidence from the gravity model estimates reveals that the two donors’ exports are strengthened by their aids to African partners. Interestingly, China’s aid shows a positive effect on its total volume of trade and imports from Africa, while the aid from the US e...

We provide evidence on the existence of short-run trade diversion effects towards third countries as a consequence tariff shocks. exploit sudden policy changes in context dispute between United States and China 2018. Based data set covering monthly product-level information US imports from 30 for period 2016 until May 2019, we employ difference-in-differences estimation framework. Doing so, can...

Declining global multilateralism has brought numerous trade disputes, most notably between the US and China. Here, a new model featuring monetary policy revenue reassignment are used to examine effects of this conflict macroeconomic perspective proves be important. The emergent results provide additional insight complement other “trade-focused” general equilibrium studies. We find that, with ca...

Over the last three decades, membership in regional trade arrangements has become one of the most important tools of trade diplomacy. Regional agreements bring a lot of benefits for the member countries through reducing barriers and restrictions. Considering the signing of the Interim PTA Agreement between Iran and Eurasia and its effects, this study aimed to investigate the economic effects of...

Accepted for publication 18 August 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T he relation between health and trade is not new. Disease and pestilence have long followed global trade routes, a pattern that continues into the 21st century. A Chinese trade ship was the source of Latin America’s cholera outbreak in 1991, which resulted in 10 000 deaths. Increased trade in tobacco products...