This report describes a rare case of acquired Ondine's curse. The patient developed central sleep apnea syndrome named Ondine's curse after a brainstem infarction. Lesions involving the descending medullocervical pathways that subserve automatic breathing can result in this syndrome.

Winner’s curse theories in case of (almost) common-value auctions have long been in existence and fiercely debated in the economic literature. The implications of this theory are far reaching for the fast emerging electronic auction markets. Businesses can make strategic uses of the auction markets ranging from estimation of demand curve for their products to achieving individual price discrimi...

This paper reports on my replication of the 1997 Sachs and Warner resource curse working paper. Exact pure replication is achieved. A test for statistical replication shows that some of the Sachs and Warner results attempting to determine the cause of the resource curse are not robust to the country sample. A test for scientific replication shows that findings of the resource curse are not sens...

according to resource curse theory, not only the revenues from selling natural resources do not result in economic growth, but also have some unpleasant effects on economy. this study shows that natural resources cannot be considered curse by itself , but it is the management of revenues which is important. the foreign reserves fund was established to control the effects of oil price volatiliti...