BACKGROUND/AIMS The Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) staging system is logical for the staging and treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) because it was based on survival data. This study evaluated the applicability of the BCLC staging system and reasons for divergence from BCLC-recommended treatments in Korean HCC patients. METHODS One hundred and sixty consecutive HCC patients were...

We study the extent to which the U.S. housing boom and subsequent housing bust during the 2000s masked (and then unmasked) the sharp, ongoing decline in the manufacturing sector. We exploit cross-city variation in manufacturing declines and housing booms and jointly estimate their effects on local employment and wages. Between 2000 and 2007, we find that a one standard deviation decrease in man...

Using panel data from rural Ethiopia, combined with a new data set containing daily atmospheric parameters, we show that increased climate variability (a proxy for future income uncertainty) reduces farmers’ subjective well-being, in line with the theory of optimal expectations (Brunnermeier and Parker, 2005). The magnitude of our result indicates that a one standard deviation increase in clima...

the position of financial organization would be increasingly decisive in the next decade in view of the frightening competition. with the increasing number of businesses and growing competitions today, each organization wants to be the customer’s first choice and try to satisfy them for getting loyalty for their future endurance in the market.  however, it is open to ask whether the organizatio...

economic growth and development of market, stock exchange and related variables are among components which influence on business, economic activities and management of society. financial repression is among economic variables greatly influencing on financial market specifically capital market and economic growth and development; so that, this concept caused to publish financial growth and devel...

introduction: nasal teeth eruption is a rare phenomenon. the variability of symptoms and generic history makes the diagnosis difficult. this difficulty is more challenging when the tooth is placed in the depth of septum.   case report: our case is an example of this problem. herein, we present a case of intraseptal tooth with nasal obstruction and septal deviation and recurrent sinusitis. we pr...

We address explicitly the issue of risk in the theory of the firm. To that end, we present a model in which the shareholders’ portfolio selection of assets and the decisions of the firm are jointly determined through the market process. The model allows to study the role of markets and prices on the type of risky activities undertaken by a firm and the allocation of random profit among sharehol...

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