... the rate ofgrowthof total population, ru is the rate ofgrowthof utilization per capita, rp is the rate ofgrowthof the general price level, rr is the rate ofgrowthof the ratio of the medical ... period t-1, (2) (1+rate ofgrowthof population), (3) (1+rate ofgrowthof utilization (per capita) indicator), (4) (1+rate ofgrowthof GNP deflator), (5) (1+rate ofgrowthof medical prices relative ... rate ofgrowth in health expenditures equals the rate ofgrowth in an indicator of population size and age structure plus rate ofgrowthof total health expenditures normalized by an index of population...
... Air Pollution – DevelopingCountries Alberini, Anna and Alan Krupnick, 2000 “Cost -of- Illness and WTP Estimates of the Benefits of Improved Air Quality: Evidence from Taiwan”, Land Economics 76(1), ... “Cost -of- Illness and Willingness-to-Pay Estimates of the Benefits of Improved Air Quality: Evidence from Taiwan”- Alberini and Krupnik (2000) Abstract: They compare cost -of- illness (COI) and willingness-to-pay ... done in developingcountries that for the first time allow estimation of the total burden of disease (mortality and morbidity) attributable to use of solid fuels in adult women and young children,...
... directors of nursing in both Ireland and the source countries, as well as the personal experiences and opinions of the overseas nurses themselves, currently working in Ireland The aim of this paper ... nurses and ways of ensuring sufficient production and retention of nurses The issue of skillmix within nursing was identified by each DN as a way of reducing the need for overseas recruitment, and ... effects of such migration on both source and destination countries will be examined There has been relatively little primary research on the issue of international recruitment and migration of health...
... percentage of GDP may affect growth It has been deduced that natural-resource rich countries have a tendency to have lower levels ofgrowth than countries with poor levels of natural-resources (Sachs and ... government, index of bureaucratic quality (BUQ), ethnic tensions index (EHT), index of risk of repudiation of government contracts, and the index of risk of expropriation (EPR) The indexes of corruption, ... Accounting Office1993) The bilateral official assistance as a percentage of total official assistance for all developingcountries in 1998, 1999, and 2000 were 55.14 percent, 65.62 percent, and 60.18...
... WTO’s practices of anti-dumping dispute provisional measures, and disputes over the inconsistency of the settlement and the participation ofdevelopingcountriesand national law of a Member country ... the WTO for developingcountries CHAPTER THE WTO’S PRACTICES OF ANTI-DUMPING DISPUTE SETTLEMENT AND THE PARTICIPATION OFDEVELOPINGCOUNTRIESAND VIETNAM 15 16 3.1 The WTO’s practices of anti-dumping ... perspective of that looks into both the theoretical and practical aspects of the developing countries" by Ly Van Anh on the Journal of issue of anti-dumping dispute settlement under the WTO and International...
... Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan (Republic of China) Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine ... Philippines Pitcairn Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa ... Ethiopia ETH Indep Adis Abeba 66 Falkland Islands FLK DepT GBR Stanley 67 Faroe Islands FRO DepT DNK Tórshavn 68 Fiji FJI Indep Suva 18,270 18,270 868,500 69 Finland FIN Indep Helsinki 337,030 305,470...
... complexity of choices of technologies and the complexity of needs and demands of health systems suggests that the gradual introduction, testing and refining of new technologies, in those areas of health ... critical mass of professional and community users of ICTs in health has not yet been reached in developingcountries Many of the approaches being used are still at a relatively new stage of implementation, ... professionals using information and communication technologies for the exchange of vital information for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease and injuries, research and evaluation, and...
... These 10 countries accounted for 73 percent ofdevelopingcountries GNI, and received 73 percent of total net capital flows to developingcountries in 2010 DevelopingCountries Debt Stocks and Flows ... ofgrowthof income and export earnings outpaces the accumulation of new external obligations Developingcountries external debt indicators, measured in terms of gross national income (GNI) and ... in developingcountriesof the importance of managing their external obligations Central to this process is the measurement and monitoring of external debt stocks and flows in a coordinated and...
... efficacy (quality) of public and private services 30 Adequate systems of regulation, oversight, and licensing of providers thus must be part of any such scheme In some developingcountries in which ... hand and ratification (and/ or implementation) of this or other core standard on the other See Elliot and Freeman (forthcoming), as well as Chau and Kanbur (2001) 47 Note that unlike core standards, ... in industrialized countries finds a positive association of employment and health, for both women and men (Ross and Mirowski 1995 and references therein).12 The health benefits of work may come...
... variables; and the implications of climate change for the urban areas ofdevelopingcountries Mark R Montgomery Officers Francis L Price, Chairman of the Board President and Chief Executive Officer, ... Urban Poverty and Health in DevelopingCountries To understand urban health in developing countries, the situations of the urban poor and near-poor must be distinguished from those of other city ... Their Experience of Abuse .12 Figure Estimates of Urban and Rural Prevalence of HIV: Kenya, Mali, and Zambia 13 Figure Yellow Sea Region of China, Areas Within 10 Meters of Sea Level ...
... thickness of *6.5 nm Combining the structural analysis of TEM and AFM, the as-prepared hematite particles are of nanodiscs in 123 J Nanopart Res Particle nucleation andgrowth Fig a TEM image of hematite ... absence of surfactants under mild conditions, and no need of toxic precursors and high-temperature decomposition in organic solvents The nanodiscs (diameters of *50 nm and thickness of *6.5 nm) ... addition of phosphate ions during the hydrolysis andgrowth processes Reeves and Mann (1991) suggested that the interaction of phosphate with hematite crystals was not specific to a single set of symmetryrelated...
... condition of the root system, first of all the growthof new roots that facilitate the uptake of nutrients and water for rooting and bud-breaking of plants Advantages of using the containerized type of ... because of different age and thus the size and quality of seedling types For this reason, the growthof seedling types of neither of the tree species was statistically compared The risk of lower ... Fifty seedlings of spruce were planted on an experimental plot of the area of 200 m2, of larch on 255 m2, andof pine, beech and sycamore maple on the area of 130 m2 The size of one block (5...
... compared with other stands and was not included In all cases, CDI of the uneven-aged stand is greater than that of the plantation and the even-aged stand The same is true for the growth (i.e., CDI10) ... predict growth rate in both uneven-aged and even-aged stands Taking into account the limited number of stands studied, no general conclusions can be drawn from the effect of stand structure on growth ... diameter and basal area growthof Scots pine in the uneven-aged stand than in the even-aged stand and the plantation Additional research using this kind of approach might be warranted, and the...
... the ‘Guardian of the Genome’ [14], and so Effects of low inorganic phosphate on lung ofdeveloping mice 111 Fig Analysis of fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) protein in the lungs of mice fed a ... cell growth Among the classes of NPTs (Types 1, and 3), two types (Types and 3) have been identified in mammalian lung and there has been considerable progress in understanding their function and ... protein expressions of p53, p21 and p27 (Figs 4A and C) In contrast, low Pi significantly increased the protein expressions of cyclin D3, CDK4 and PCNA (Figs 4B and D) IHC analysis of PCNA clearly...
... leaves per week and per group were randomly collected from seedlings of both groups and the mined leaf surface area was measured using a leaf area meter (see above) and paper replicas of mines’ area ... younger than three years of age remains unknown and awaits further investigations possibly addressed at evaluating growthand mortality of horse chestnut seedlings in natural stands Acknowledgments: ... 124 (2000) 8–18 [4] Figueroa J.A., Castro S.A., Effect of herbivores and pathogens on the survival andgrowthof seedlings in a fragment of the Chiloe rainforest, Chile, Rev Chil Hist Nat 73 (2000)...
... National Institute of Education of Singapore and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thanks are also expressed to Olivier Crassard and Patrick Durand respectively for their scientific and administrative ... transplanting and at and months after planting out 2.3 Statistical analysis A single factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to determine significant difference of plant height andgrowth ... Polybags and the stalks just before the transfer to the field Within days plants of all treatments were labeled and transplanted into a fully randomized design in the field in rows of 30 plants...
... LB and TB The TB also correlated with RB and SB; LB with RB and FR, and AGB with RB and FR There were positive correlations for T and WT in the following cases: TB-LB, TB-AGB, TB-FR, LBAGB and ... consisted of digging of a hole with a retro-excavator of 80 H.P., with a bucket of 50 × 80 cm The seedlings placed in one of these plots were fitted with a Tubex® tree protector with a height of 80 ... eliminate soil and other rests The maximum length of the main root (RL) was measured and later AGB differentiating LB and SB, and RB differentiating thick roots (TR, diameter > mm) and fine roots...
... tree and cork growth, make difficult the develop and validate growthand yield models for cork oak stands [16] For these reasons, we set up experiments with the aim of quantifying the effect of ... study: characteristics of the sample The choice of sites was made after a complete examination of the cork oak dehesas of Cáceres province The advantage of this type of woodland was that it allowed ... mid-points of each plank – Two pieces of cork measuring about 20 × 20 cm were random collected from each tree and taken to the laboratory A thin slice was cut, one of its faces was sanded, and a microscope...
... aspects andgrowthof Q suber plants We recorded stem diameter growth, water relations and the photochemical efficiency of inoculated plants in order to relate these parameters to the pathogenesis of ... occasional periods of negative data fol, -1 lowing inoculation and the death of one plant which related, respectively, to absence of symptoms, appearance of wilting and death of the plants (table ... studied [7]: i) total increase of the stem diameter, ii) maximum daily shrinkage (MDS) of the stem diameter (difference between the maximum and minimum of each daily curve) and its relative values against...
... spring of 1992 in the experimental garden of the Institute of Silviculture of the University of Freiburg, Germany, half in the open and half artificially shaded Since then the growthof the oaks ... the comparison of the young oak plants in the open field and in shade up to an age of 5-6 years at the end of 1994, we could not confirm the results of Jarvis (1964) and Ziegenhagen and Kausch (1993), ... such a growth optimum would shift to higher light requirements with increasing age of the plants In order to test the influence of irradiance function of age, plants of Q robur (2 years old) and...