Jie Lian , Jun Zhao, Georgi M. Dimirovski 1 School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, P. R. China; 2 Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation of Process Industry, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, P. R. of China; 3 Department of Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ...

Tuberculosis is a disease as old as human history and has affected every area of human life. The struggle against tuberculosis had been started by non-governmental organizations and achieved success after second world war. In Anatolia as well as all over the world fight against tuberculosis, with the leading names in medicine, started during the Ottoman Empire. In the following years of struggl...

Authors/Task Force Members: Vera Regitz-Zagrosek (Chairperson) (Germany)*, Carina Blomstrom Lundqvist (Sweden), Claudio Borghi (Italy), Renata Cifkova (Czech Republic), Rafael Ferreira (Portugal), Jean-Michel Foidart† (Belgium), J. Simon R. Gibbs (UK), Christa Gohlke-Baerwolf (Germany), Bulent Gorenek (Turkey), Bernard Iung (France), Mike Kirby (UK), Angela H.E.M. Maas (The Netherlands), Joao M...

Background: The current study aimed to evaluating the dentistry education system in Iran and comparing it with selected dental schools in Turkey, the Philippines, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Methods: The study was accomplished by the analyses of the documents available on web sites, links correspond to curriculum, the education program of general dentistry, and the transc...

An examination of fertility trends in countries with multiple DHS surveys found that in the 1990s fertility stalled in midtransition in seven countries: Bangladesh, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, and Turkey. In each of these countries fertility was high (more than six births per woman) in the 1950s and declined to fewer than five births per woman in the early or mid-1990s, be...

An examination of fertility trends in countries with multiple DHS surveys found that in the 1990s fertility stalled in mid-transition in seven countries: Bangladesh, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, and Turkey. In each of these countries fertility was high (>6 births per woman) in the 1950s and then declined to fewer than 5 births per woman in the early or mid-1990s, before sta...

It is a well-known fact that although the early age mortality rates have been declining globally the differentials by geographical regions, wealth, ethnicity/race, access and use of gender have been experienced within developed and developing countries as well as within the countries. The aim of this paper is to discuss the importance of gender inequalities as well as other socio-economic effec...

This paper examines the impact of monetary policy on firms’ access to bank and market finance when allowance is made for differences in firm-specific characteristics. A theoretical model determines the cut-off values for project profitability that would allow firms to access bank or market finance. This model predicts that specific characteristics in terms of size, age, risk and debt can make a...

The first cross-national study of the value of children (VOC) took place in the 1970s and aimed to detect the perceived costs and benefits of having children for parents, explain the influence of VOC on fertility behavior and the influence of industrialization/modernization and Eastern vs. Western traditions on VOC and fertility behavior (Arnold et al., 1975; Fawcett, 1972; Hoffman, 1987; Hoffm...