Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Decentralized School Finance and Metropolitan Suburbanization∗

The residential patterns across the metropolitan areas have changed notably since 1950s; The population has suburbanized and the poor now live closer to the city center. The recent research by urban economists finds that the income elasticity of land demand is too low to explain the poor’s urbanization, which mainly comes from better access to public transportation in cities. We take the new fi...

Iron defi ciency anemia in the elderly

The numbers of older people in the world have been growing rapidly. Anemia is the most common hematologic problem encountered in older adults. However, anemia should not be accepted as an inevitable consequence of aging. Anemia in the elderly signifi es an underlying disease. Iron Defi ciency Anemia (IDA) is being one of the most common causes of anemia in older people. IDA in the elderly is of...

17 Glucose - 6 - Phosphate Dehydrogenase Defi ciency

Epidemiology of AIDS-Defi ning Malignancies

R. Yarchoan (ed.), Cancers in People with HIV and AIDS: Progress and Challenges, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-0859-2_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract AIDS-defi ning malignancies are a subset of HIV-associated malignancies that include Kaposi sarcoma, some forms of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), and invasive cervical cancer (see also Chap. 3 ). Kaposi sarcoma along with Pneumoc...

Defi nition and Classifi cation of Concussion

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of hospitalization and death among children and adolescents and therefore represents a major public health problem (Langlois et al. 2006 ) . Recent estimates of pediatric TBI suggest an annual incidence of 475,000 cases for children ages 0 to 14 (Langlois et al. 2006 ) . However, most studies of TBI prevalence (i.e., all cases) and incidence (i.e....