Much attentmn has been gwen to the effects of the recession on the financmg of the socml security program m the Umted States and abroad, where smnlar economm condltlons have arisen This report concentrates on the repercussions m France Fmanclal problems for the soclal security systems of many countries have been created by the combmatlon of mflahon and recession m the 1970’s Benefits, Indexed u...

The karstic Rijab Spring with an average discharge of 3290 l/s is located in the Alvand River basin in the northwest of the Zagros, Iran, which drains Asmari formation. To investigate groundwater flow in the catchment area of the Spring, the physicochemical parameters include major cations and anions, discharge, EC, pH, and temperature were studied from September 2000-2002. The results indicate...

the abrasive flow machining technique uses a self-deforming tool, an abrasive laden media that is passed back and forth in the passage geometry of the hollow workpiece with the assistance of two hydraulically operated cylinders placed opposite to each other. the material is removed by abrasion generating finer surfaces in the area where flow is restricted. but this method has a low material rem...

receiver operating characteristics (roc) curves have numerous applications for identifying a cut-off point in diagnostic tests. nonetheless, given that sometimes two cut-off points have to be specified simultaneously, the roc curve can be used to identify such points. the volume under the roc surface (vus) serves as a criterion for the accuracy of diagnostic tests. one of the unfortunate outcom...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that economic recessions lead to reduced global development assistance for health (DAH). METHODS Data obtained from the Creditor Reporting System of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for 15 OECD countries were used to model the percentage change (relative difference) in commitments and disbursements for DAH as a function of thre...

T he recession that began in March 2001 differed in many ways from other recessions of the past three decades. The twin recessions of the early 1980s occurred when the Federal Reserve Board, under Chairman Paul Volcker, acted decisively to halt the steady rise of inflation during the 1970s, despite the substantial employment and output cost to the economy. Although monetary tightening had reduc...

BACKGROUND There are few long-term outcome reports of unilateral lateral rectus (LR) recession for exotropia including a large number of subjects. Previous reports on unilateral LR recession commonly show extremely low rates of initial overcorrection and large exodrifts after surgery suggesting that the surgical dose may be increased. However, little is known of the long-term outcome of a large...

PURPOSE To introduce a novel technique of inferior rectus recession operation to allow larger amounts of recession without causing lower lid retraction and to compare this method with the results obtained in standard inferior rectus recession. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study included 20 patients operated on in the authors' clinic. The median age of the patients was 24.5±18.6 (4-73) years and ...

The impact of a drop onto a deep bath of an immiscible liquid is studied with emphasis on the drop fragmentation into a collection of noncoalescing daughter drops. At impact the drop flattens and spreads at the surface of the crater it transiently opens in the bath and reaches a maximum deformation, which gets larger with increasing impact velocity, before surface tension drives its recession. ...