Well over a trillion dollars worth of state-owned firms have been privatized since 1980. The traditional argument is that governments choose to privatize in response to fiscal pressures. In this study, the authors examine the impact of IFI conditionality on privatization and find that IMF conditionality, in particular, has an important indirect economic benefit. Investors are willing to pay mor...

An L(2, 1)-coloring of a graph G is a coloring of G’s vertices with integers in {0, 1, . . . , k} so that adjacent vertices’ colors differ by at least two and colors of distance-two vertices differ. We refer to an L(2, 1)-coloring as a coloring. The span λ(G) of G is the smallest k for which G has a coloring, a span coloring is a coloring whose greatest color is λ(G), and the hole index ρ(G) of...

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The current issue of OJPHI contains eight refereed articles and a working paper. While these articles came from independent sources, they represent a common theme—the use of information science and communication technologies to advance the fields of public health practice and healthcare in general. They cover articles that use XForms standards to demonstrate bi-directional communication between...

The present study examined the physiological effects of counselling in HIV positive patients. The subjects were assigned randomly to two conditions namely, control (N=50, 25 males and 25 females) and experimental (N=50, 25 males and 25 females). The subjects in the experimental group were exposed to counselling sessions one hour daily for one month. A 2 x 2 between subject’s factorial design in...

Wheat is a staple article of food throughout the civilized world. It is undoubtedly the best of all cereals, and perhaps contains, much more approximately than any other single edible substance, the elements of adult food",in their proper proportions. It wants but a little oleaginous principle to make it subservient to all purposes of nutrition, and, by an unanimous consent of natural instinct,...