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... 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 of the spine, however most commonly occurs in the lower extremity. In this case, although the patient ... attrib- uted in part to the continuous aging of the population as well as the widespread use of diuretics for treatment of hypertension [4]. Gout is a clinical syndrome caused by the deposition of monosodium...

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... Faculty of the 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 16 labor, and where t is the number of years in business. t is included in the model to control for the maturity of a company. Companies operating in the 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...

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... major public health concern in the country. TB in the Philippines ranked fifth in the 10 leading causes of death and fifth in the 10 leading causes of illness, with an incidence reported to be 6.3 ... especially in immunocompromised indi- viduals and the elderly. TB in the eye can manifest in a myriad of ways, and the definitive diagnosis can be daunting due to the dif- ficulty of getting ocular ... Asian study found increasing longevity of their population and the high rate of TB in their elderly as important factors contributing to their persistent high rate of TB [17]. Old age has indeed been...

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... managing and protecting digital identities, with a view to strengthening confidence in the online activities crucial to the growth of the Internet Economy. The primer is a product of the 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....

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... Arima, and Jerome Ming: thank you all. In the Philippines, I am grateful for the institutional support from the School of Economics at the University of the 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 in the civil service: in the ASEAN-Four cases, technocrats become members of the civilian bureaucracy either as career officers rising up from the ranks of the bureaucracy...

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... illustrate the inequities of the trading system, the persistence of unequal exchange, the myths surrounding the benevolence of aid, phantom aid and the degree of capital flight and brain drain afflicting ... all the great meanings of the modern age, from the Enlightenment to now, of human progress and the civil- ising mission of human intervention. After the eclipsing of the socialist project in the ... 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 in the private sector, promoting profitable...

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... construction of the meaning of ‘concessional’ that matters, 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 of the 1980s, resulted in one country after another, particularly in Africa, becoming ... importance of the whole network of institutions to a) regulation in the global economy; b) development prospects in Southern countries; and c) relations of power in the interstate system, and look at the...

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... 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 economy of development. It is worth looking ... banks. They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ (Arrighi 1994: xii), in the boardroom of the global economy, and their relatively small number explains in part both the herd behaviour of investors ... to undermine the critique of global power to which the international worker and social movement is inclined. It is the ‘gift from the American people’ stamped on the bag of corn in the television...

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... senior official in the CDC in 1993, referring to the case of Kenya, noted that the CDC would take investment decisions: by understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving and the ... politicians, rather than looking at computer 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 using financing through the IDA to pay the IMF! Indeed, Oxfam cite the shock- ing statistic that, in the case of Zambia during the late 1990s, ‘well over half of the finance provided...

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... to collectivise 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 of the whole bourgeoisie’, ... Marx. The CDC was in co-operation with the World Bank as early as 1950 in the co-financing of the Kariba Dam project in the then Central African Federation, ‘much the largest single CDC investment at ... the Corporation with: the duty of securing the investigation, formulation and carrying out of projects for developing resources of colonial territories with a view to the production therein of...

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... institu- tions of the British state and an account of the changing role of the CDC in managing investment and liquidity. The case study shows how one dominant core lender in the global interstate ... by the collectivisation of the management of development finance and the socialisation of risk in the markets of the South, emerged. This chapter has given an historical review of the frontier institu- tions ... million! In terms of the two lines for Africa in particular, the OOF figures were negative in five of the seven years since 2000, and were only positive in 2002 and 2003. The ODF flows remained healthily...

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... grown in absolute terms, but also the process of multilateralisation of aid finance which took place in the years following the onset of the debt crisis in the context of a drop- ping off of private ... Of course, there is another economy in Africa which is informal and possible quite large, but the official one reviewed here shows increasing inequality and income poverty for the majority. Adding in to ... perceived: a decline in the presence of UK-based companies in the supply of goods for projects financed by the Bank. This is usually an indication that the manufacturing base of the supply country...

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... appoints the Supervisory Board and the Managing Director. Needs Danish co-investor. Swedfund Wholly state-owned Sweden At the end of Representatives of the 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 transferring resources overseas, rather than the reality of a situation where the flow is in the other direction in terms of many of the poorest coun- tries and is in the UK’s favour overall....

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... we measuring? In the last three chapters we have examined profitability within the political economy of aid, both in and of itself in chapter 7 (through direct contracts), and then in terms of the ... 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 a misleading representation of the benevolence of aid. The mainstream focus...

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... thesis about the meaning of power, in 2. The experience of the poor has contradicted the discursive meanings given to DFIs within the dominant ideology of the age; that is, the discourse of modernist ... face of soaring prices. The non-oil producing countries with the lowest incomes will pay most, and the poorest people within them are the last in line. For these people there are no luxuries in their budgets, ... growth. 4 Instead the concern here is that in the process of ‘giving aid’ in the system we have at the moment, the opportunities to do these types of things may be fore- closed, or the effect of doing...

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