PURPOSE To evaluate the appropriateness of laboratory-test monitoring recommended for patients on chronic medication therapies in the Lebanese community setting. PATIENTS AND METHODS In October 2011, all outpatients visiting selected community pharmacies in Lebanon were screened by pharmacists to evaluate their use of one or more chronic medications requiring safety and/or therapeutic laborat...

? mil a Zelda, mercurial child of the hectic '20s, captured the love of novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In a frenzied effort to match his genius she threw herself into painting, writing and ballet before tragically ending her life in a mental hospital.

We are interested in the ways that language is used to achieve a variety of goals, where the same utterance may have vastly different consequences in different situations. This is closely related to the topic of creativity in language. The fact that the same utterance can be used to achieve a variety of goals opens up the possibility of using it to achieve new goals. The current paper concentra...

Public budget is the engine that drives any economy; thus, budget transparency contributes to shaping the political process and government performance. The current study examines the relationship between budget transparency (measured by Open Budget Index (OBI)) and governance quality (measured by Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI)). The study covers four years – 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012 – ...