cated to providing healthcare professionals with clinically relevant, evidence-based topics. Clinical Foundations is pleased to announce a webinar series featuring leading healthcare professionals. To find out more about the current webinar and to register, go to www.clinicalfoundations.org. Each webinar is accredited for CRCEs and CNEs. Richard Branson, MS, RRT, FAARC Professor of Surgery Univ...

In this essay, the author briefly describes main principles of Jewish philanthropy and its trends in Russia. Elena E. Nosenko-Stein stresses that activities philanthropic organizations mainly cover needs aged poor persons. At same time, notes disabled persons, as a rule, do not become recipients both Russian social services. Further tells about Head one such organizations, Aleksander Ye. Kirnos...

The Great Recession was a deep downturn with long-lasting e ects on credit markets, labor markets and output. While narratives about what caused the recession abound, the persistence of GDP below its pre-crisis trend is puzzling. We propose a simple persistence mechanism that can be easily quanti ed and combined with existing models, even complex ones. Our solution rests on the premise that no ...