As objects go, foreigners are a pretty respectable bunch. They’re not figments of our collective imagination, or social constructions, or useful fictions. They’re not mind-dependent, and they don’t disappear when we don’t keep an eye on them. Our ‘folk theory’ about foreigners isn’t subject to some global error, and the term ‘foreigner’ certainly manages to refer. Some of our beliefs about fore...

Many foreigners enter Taiwan for the purpose of marriage or study, or as dependants or relatives of Taiwanese citizens. The aim of this study was to investigate the proportions of these immigrants infected with intestinal parasites. A total of 2875 foreigners from 39 countries or regions underwent stool examination in our hospital within the study period, and the merthiolate iodine formaldehyde...

Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with immigrants in the labor market have more negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an increased co...

Over a period of ten years (1983-1992), 134 malaria cases admitted to University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur (UHKL) were analysed. Malays constituted 27.6%, Chinese 29.8%, Indians 9.7%, Indonesians 16.4% and other foreigners 16.4%. Therefore, of the total number of cases, foreigners constituted 32.8% (44) of all the malaria cases admitted to UHKL. Fifteen of these foreigners had chloroquine-resistan...

This paper investigates the impact of foreign trading on short term volatility and on the correlation of local with world returns. I find that trading in general is associated with higher volatility, whether it is trading by foreigners or domestic investors. However, controlling for total trading volume, foreign trading has no impact on volatility in developed countries, and only a marginally s...

This paper analyses data for the aggregate daily trading of all foreign investors in six Asian emerging equity markets and provides two new findings. First, foreigners’ flows into several markets show positive-feedback trading with respect to global, as well as domestic, equity returns. In particular, foreigners tend to be buyers in these markets on the day after rises in these markets or in US...

BACKGROUND Italy has recently become a land of immigration. Two hundred and fifty thousand carriers are immigrants and chronic HBV infection is the prevalent form. Considering the elevated number of foreigners resident in our province and the potential risk of transmission to local people, we retrospectively investigated the patterns of chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in 154 patients (76 foreigners, ...

will allow foreigners to establish medical institutes in the Free Economic Zone, which includes the Korean cities of Busan, Jinhae, Incheon, and Kwangyang. Physicians and dentists with a license from a foreign country will be allowed to practice in those institutes, and treat Korean patients. The government anticipates that this policy will reduce the expenses of medical travel, improve service...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The number of foreigners using emergency departments has risen in recent years. The aim of this study was to assess the management of Latin American users, above all Ecuadorian, of an emergency departments by analysing the main reasons for access to the emergency departments, the triage codes assigned and the attitudes and behaviours of healthcare personnel towards for...

Foreigners, including displaced persons, often have limited health-care access, especially to HIV services. Outcomes of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in South Africans and foreigners were compared at a Johannesburg non-governmental clinic. Records were reviewed of 1297 adults enrolled between April 2004 and March 2007 (568 self-identified foreigners, 431 South Africans citizens and 298 with unkn...