In Japan, the practice of infection control in healthcare settings has a short history of less than 3 decades. Before that, infection control practices were far from perfect and even ignored. This review summarizes changes in infection control in Japan since the 1980s and offers some comparisons with practices in foreign countries, especially the United States. Infection control is far better n...

This study explores the effects of foreign education on earnings. Previously, most research used indirect estimated information about foreign education, and documented the lower earnings of immigrants who had foreign education in comparison to those who had domestic education. Using direct information obtained from respondents of a recent survey, this research goes beyond the existing studies b...

Sustainable farming is a popular concept, although very difficult to define (Viglizzo 1996). We believe that farming in the Argentine pampas has been sustainable in the broad sense. Over a span of three generations, productivity has increased, living standards have improved, and the farming sector has been the principal contributor to national development and the major earner of foreign exchang...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the relation between the foreign ownership and firm performance. The study was conducted for the companies listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange, in the first, second and third categories. The financial companies and the credit institutions were excluded from the sample. The final sample included 63 companies. Return on Assets and Return on Equity...

one of the most important policies concerning the adjustment of foreign trade is to allocate foreign currency by establishing an exchange control system. the mechanism of this would be so that the central bank operates or supervises all transactions concerning foreign exchange. however, the controlling system, like all other international systems of payment, operates with some adjustments and i...

distribution and allocation of resources is affected by factors such as values, norms, social stratifications, ideology, information, coercion, political challenges, and even external factors. this finding means that there is always a fundamental tendency to redirect resources toward political goals instead of public interests and development. because the resource structure is strongly influenc...

Background: Intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs) such as air gun pellet is a rare finding in wild animals like Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta). The purpose of the present scientific report is to describe the surgical retrieval of IOFB secondary to ballistic wound in a wild Rhesus macaque. Case description: A juvenile female wild Rhesus macaque was brought with the history of swollen and inflamed ...

Despite the political sensitivity of foreign capital, existing work on the effect of foreign capital at the firm level is slim. This paper examines the effect of foreign equity ownership and management on firm performance using a panel of Korean firms for the period of 1993-2007 when foreign capital inflows increased dramatically. Empirical results show that foreign equity ownership positively ...