The world has witnessed a succession of three global financial crises in the past two decades.During each crisis, many financial institutions failed.Credit became either unavailable or too costly for business, as seen in the recent financial turmoil in Greece.Similar situation also prevailed during the 1997-1998 Asian Financial crisis, requiring th
Background: Despite the ready availability of pneumococcal vaccines and recommendation of vaccination by Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the immunization rates among adults less than 65 years of age with chronic and immunocompromised conditions remain low.Methods: This interventional (cohort) study aimed to improve the pneumococcal
The paper points out the importance of comparative statistics and their role in the enhancement of the national system of criminal justice statistics, and the national criminal justice system in general.The central part of the paper is about history, significance, methodology and content of the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Stat
Animacy influences the patterns of subject-verb agreement marking in many SPF 27 KIDS languages, including Persian and Inari Saami.In Persian, animate plural subjects trigger plural agreement on the verb, whereas inanimate subjects may or may not trigger agreement.The variation is governed by factors such as personification, agency and distributivi
In the context of conducting a side-impact collision test without side airbag for a specific vehicle model, an analysis of the injury value curve of the crash test dummy, when bench-marked against results from whole-vehicle testing, sled test and sled simulation, reveals two issues with the sled results: a delay in contact time and an excessively h