... prevalence of gout in the USA ranges between 0.5–2.8% in men and 0.1–0.6% in women [2]. The prevalence rises to 4.4% of men and 1.8% of women over the age of 65 [4]. A two-fold increase in incidence of ... in any joint including the ankle, knee, hand, wrist, elbow,sacroiliac joint and other joints ofthe spine, howevermost commonly occurs inthe lower extremity. In thiscase, although the patient ... attrib-uted in part to the continuous aging ofthe population aswell as the widespread use of diuretics for treatment of hypertension [4].Gout is a clinical syndrome caused by the deposition of monosodium...
... Faculty ofthe Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin ... and the type of electronic 16labor, and where t is the number of years in business. t is included inthe model to control for the maturity of a company. Companies operating inthe Internet ... migrate many of their business activities to the Internet, can they also benefit from insights regarding productive and unproductive activities in an online world? In the late nineties, online traffic...
... major public health concern in the country. TB inthePhilippines ranked fifth inthe 10leading causes of death and fifth inthe 10 leading causes of illness, with an incidence reported to be 6.3 ... especially in immunocompromised indi-viduals and the elderly.TB inthe eye can manifest in a myriad of ways, and the definitive diagnosis can be daunting due to the dif-ficulty of getting ocular ... Asianstudy found increasing longevity of their population and the high rate of TB in their elderly as important factorscontributing to their persistent high rate of TB [17]. Oldage has indeed been...
... managing and protecting digital identities, with a view to strengthening confidence inthe online activities crucial to the growth ofthe Internet Economy. The primer is a product ofthe Working ... protection of individuals and their digital identities. As a key factor in increasing trust in online activities, IdM is also a key factor in fostering the growth of the Internet economy. Given the ... maintained in multiple accounts within the organisation. The organisation is in some sense wasting resources and duplicating efforts in maintaining separate profiles with (mostly) the same information....
... Arima, and Jerome Ming: thank you all. Inthe Philippines, I am grateful for the institutional support from the School of Economics at the University ofthe Philippines. I am most indebted to Emmanuel ... state actors in order to trace their distinct and interacting interests, and examine how state institutions structure the interactions between them. The institutional configuration of state power ... development and training inthe civil service: inthe ASEAN-Four cases, technocrats become members of the civilian bureaucracy either as career officers rising up from the ranks ofthe bureaucracy...
... illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the mythssurrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital flight and brain drain afflicting ... all the great meanings ofthe modernage, from the Enlightenment to now, of human progress and the civil-ising mission of human intervention. After the eclipsing ofthe socialistproject inthe ... that is the book’s aim. In other words, despite all the recent talk of poverty reduction, behind the scenes the whole industry of profitable development inthe private sector, promoting profitable...
... construction ofthe meaning of ‘concessional’ thatmatters, and this defining falls to those doing the lending. Indeed, the idea that aid is a ‘concessional’ form of distributing money is based in regulations ... southern Africa in 1994 (just before the end of apartheid) explained that: The international debt crisis ofthe 1980s, resulted in onecountry after another, particularly in Africa, becoming ... importanceofthe whole network of institutions to a) regulation in the global economy; b) development prospects in Southern countries;and c) relations of power inthe interstate system, and look at the...
... how the divide between the global haves and have-nots is maintained; the technical slights of hand are the implementing policy machine of the political economyof development. It is worth looking ... banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom ofthe global economy, and their relatively smallnumber explains in part both the herd behaviour of investors ... to undermine the critique of globalpower to which the international worker and social movement isinclined. It is the ‘gift from the American people’ stamped on the bag of corn inthe television...
... senior official inthe CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would takeinvestment decisions:by understanding the human nature of these people, how theyare moving and the ... politicians, rather than looking atcomputer figures. So I think there is a lot of, in this business of investing in developing countries, there is an awful lot of experience, that comes in. (Interview, ... disbursements by usingfinancing through the IDA to pay the IMF! Indeed, Oxfam cite the shock-ing statistic that, inthe case of Zambia during the late 1990s, ‘well overhalf ofthe finance provided...
... tocollectivise the control over independent African countries’ reintegra-tion into the world economy, with the CDC acting as the chair of the ‘committee managing the common affairs ofthe whole bourgeoisie’, ... Marx. The CDC was in co-operation with the World Bank asearly as 1950 inthe co-financing ofthe Kariba Dam project inthe thenCentral African Federation, ‘much the largest single CDC investmentat ... the Corporation with: the duty of securing the investigation, formulation andcarrying out of projects for developing resources of colonialterritories with a view to the production therein of...
... institu-tions ofthe British state and an account ofthe changing role ofthe CDC in managing investment and liquidity. The case study shows how onedominant core lender inthe global interstate ... by the collectivisation ofthe management of development finance and the socialisation of risk inthe markets ofthe South, emerged.This chapter has given an historical review ofthe frontier institu-tions ... million! In terms ofthe two lines for Africa in particular, the OOF figures were negative in five ofthe seven yearssince 2000, and were only positive in 2002 and 2003. The ODF flowsremained healthily...
... grown in absolute terms, but also the process of multilateralisation of aid finance which took place in the years following the onset ofthe debt crisis inthe context of a drop-ping off of private ... Of course, there is another economyin Africa which is informal andpossible quite large, but the official one reviewed here showsincreasing inequality and income poverty for the majority. Adding in to ... perceived:a decline inthe presence of UK-based companies inthe supply of goods for projects financed by the Bank. This is usually anindication that the manufacturing base ofthe supply country...
... appoints the Supervisory Board and the Managing Director. Needs Danish co-investor.Swedfund Wholly state-owned Sweden At the end of Representatives ofthe Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of ... billion (an increase of £4.9 billion on the amount invested in 2005), contributing to an International Invest-ment Position (the overall level of foreign direct investment) at the end of 2006 of £734.7 ... expressed by transferringresources overseas, rather than the reality of a situation where the flow is inthe other direction in terms of many ofthe poorest coun-tries and is inthe UK’s favour overall....
... wemeasuring? In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within the political economyof aid, both in and of itself in chapter 7 (throughdirect contracts), and then in terms ofthe ... sector, illustrating well the role of DFIs in providing institutions and structures for the export, and then recy-cling, of finance capital from the core states. In Ghana the CDC worked in collaboration ... little about the contribution of aid to wellbeing.Quite simply, the wrong things are being measured, proceeding from amisleading representation ofthe benevolence of aid. The mainstreamfocus...
... thesis about the meaning of power, in 2. The experience ofthe poor has contradicted the discursive meaningsgiven to DFIs within the dominant ideology ofthe age; that is, the discourse of modernist ... face of soaring prices. The non-oil producing countrieswith the lowest incomes will pay most, and the poorest people withinthem are the last in line. For these people there are no luxuries in theirbudgets, ... growth.4Instead the concern hereis that inthe process of ‘giving aid’ inthe system we have at the moment, the opportunities to do these types of things may be fore-closed, or the effect of doing...