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Diagnostic Fine Needle Aspiration in a Case of Riedel’s Thyroiditis

In Riedel’s thyroiditis, a rare chronic inflammatory disease of thyroid gland, fine needle aspiration is usually non-diagnostic because most often only follicular cells are obtained and not the fibrous material characteristic of this type of thyroiditis. Therefore the diagnosis is often only established by histopathologic study of the surgically obtained biopsy. The illustrated case is a 46-yea...

Saving, Investment, and Growth: A Causality Test

In the second half of the last century, tremendous efforts were devoted to identifying sources of economic success by a few countries and causes of failure by most. In this process a voluminous literature ranging from the neo-classical to Marxist, neo-Marxist, and dependency theories has been developed to answer the question of disparity among different countries of the north vis-à-vis those of...

Pre-sale Estimates, Risk Analysis, and the Investment Quality of Fine Art

This paper examines the importance of the inclusion of buy-in data in analyzing the risk of investment in works of art. Using the data set of French Impressionist paintings brought to auction from 1985 to 2001, we construct a theoretical lognormal distribution to include the value of works that are bought in-house, and use this to examine bias in the pre-sale estimates of auction experts. It tu...

Analysis of investment strategies: a new look at investment returns

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A Transmission Expansion Planning Model for Maximizing Merchant Investment