In this study we explore and document perceptions of slum dwellers about causes of poverty and petty corruption in slum areas of Karachi (Pakistan). Moreover, we examine the effects of fatalism on poverty, large family size, and child labor. We conduct a survey by interviewing 100 respondents covering all districts (Central, West, East, Malir, and South) to document slum dwellers’ perceptions. ...

This paper analyses mechanisms underlying firm’s compliance with environmental regulations. By using a political economy approach through a Principal-Agent model, we examine how the dynamic of environmental compliance could affect governance infrastructures by shaping the structure of institutional incentives related to stakeholder’s behaviors in regulation process. Taking the case of deforesta...

The norm defined by Busemann’s inequality establishes a class of star body intersection body. This class of star body plays a key role in the solution of Busemann-Petty problem. In 2003, Giannapoulos [1] defined a norm for a new class of half-section. Based on this norm, we give a geometric generalization of Busemann-Petty problem, and get its answer as a result.

This paper deals with inequalities for the volume of a convex body and the volume of the projection body, the L-centroid body, and their polars. Examples are the Blaschke-Santaló inequality, the Petty and Zhang projection inequalities, the Busemann-Petty inequality. Other inequalities of the same type are still at the stage of conjectures. The use of special continuous movements of convex bodie...

Werner syndrome (WS) is the canonical adult human progeroid ('premature aging') syndrome. Patients with this autosomal recessive Mendelian disorder display constitutional genomic instability and an elevated risk of important age-associated diseases including cancer. Remarkably few analyses of WS patient tissue and tumors have been performed to provide insight into WS disease pathogenesis or the...

We report a 20 year old man with short stature, microcephaly, unusual facies, numerous pigmented naevi, hypodontia, immunodeficiency, and a high pitched voice. Tympner et al had assumed that the patient had a new syndrome of "progressive combined immunodeficiency and ectomesodermal dysplasia". We show here that the condition is identical to the Mulvihill-Smith syndrome (McKusick 176690), a prog...

Progeroid syndromes, one of which is metageria, are characterized by signs of premature aging with multiple systemic and skin symptoms. Here we describe an 8-year-old girl with no historyof specific underlying disease in her family, no hair growth at the scalp since she was born, and taller and thinner than her peers. We noticed diffuse subcutaneous fat atrophy. The patientwas refer...