Pain is frequently reported by patients infected with Acquired Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), and its causes and specific treatment should be appropriately investigated. We evaluated 197 hospitalized HIV-positive patients with serial interviews and analysis of prescriptions and clinical evolution charts. The main characteristics of pain reported by these patients were: high intensity (60.7%), hi...

The purpose of the 5 th Annual Darden International Finance Conference, organized jointly with the Journal of Financial Economics, was to examine issues related to capital raising in emerging economies. The eight papers in this special issue were selected from the conference program and reflect the substantial breadth and practical importance of research in this area. While the papers often dra...

Copyright ©NADIS 2017 Introduction In the first paper of this series, emphasis was given to the breakdown in a group of pigs with a new disease causing an acute outbreak of pneumonia and other respiratory ailments. Here, the aim is to concentrate on more long standing (chronic) enzootic (endemic) disease, which arguably, in the UK pig industry, produces even greater financial loss than sudden o...

The ACRONYM Project began in April 1994, funded by the British government and industry for three years. It is a collaborative project, its partners being the University of Liverpool, FT Info (the archiving branch of the Financial Times), and the Press Association (a news agency supplying news to the regional press). The project has as its objective the development of an automated system for ide...

Copyright ©NADIS 2017 Introduction In the first paper of this series, emphasis was given to the breakdown in a group of pigs with a new disease causing an acute outbreak of pneumonia and other respiratory ailments. Here, the aim is to concentrate on more long standing (chronic) enzootic (endemic) disease, which arguably, in the UK pig industry, produces even greater financial loss than sudden o...

Copyright ©NADIS 2017 Introduction In the first paper of this series, emphasis was given to the breakdown in a group of pigs with a new disease causing an acute outbreak of pneumonia and other respiratory ailments. Here, the aim is to concentrate on more long standing (chronic) enzootic (endemic) disease, which arguably, in the UK pig industry, produces even greater financial loss than sudden o...

BACKGROUND Influenza vaccination of adults remains below recommended levels. Standing orders programs (SOPs) that allow nonphysician medical staff to assess eligibility and administer vaccines without an individualized physician's order are a proven method to increase vaccination rates. However, recent data on their use are not available. PURPOSE Investigators surveyed primary care physicians...

This dissertation consists of three chapters on financial market imperfections, in particular, information imperfections. Chapter 1 studies how the existence of a fixed cost per transaction faced by uninformed investors hampers information revelation through price and exacerbates adverse selection. The exacerbated adverse selection explains one long-standing puzzle in finance the momentum anoma...

Copyright ©NADIS 2017 Introduction In the first paper of this series, emphasis was given to the breakdown in a group of pigs with a new disease causing an acute outbreak of pneumonia and other respiratory ailments. Here, the aim is to concentrate on more long standing (chronic) enzootic (endemic) disease, which arguably, in the UK pig industry, produces even greater financial loss than sudden o...