sharp increase in oil price and the volatility in recent decades have attracted most researchers towards the field of energy. it seems not only the direct oil price, but also the uncertainty caused by the oil price volatility affect the raw oil supply. in this research the effect of oil price volatility on oil supply has been estimated using monthly time series data from january 1980 to septemb...

PURPOSE To assess the short-term anatomic effect of intravitreal ranibizumab for polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. METHODS All patients had undergone a full ophthalmic examination. A monthly injection of ranibizumab was performed for 3 months. Indocyanine angiography (ICG) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) were performed 1 month after the third-month ranibizumab injection. RESULTS Pol...

Efforts to improve science education include university science departments hiring Science Faculty with Education Specialties (SFES), scientists who take on specialized roles in science education within their discipline. Although these positions have existed for decades and may be growing more common, few reports have investigated the SFES approach to improving science education. We present com...

I read with interest the recent article on how to devise a female sex worker typology from Karnataka, India by Raluca Buzdugan et al. The authors demonstrated that combining ‘site of having sex’ along with the ‘site of solicitation’ has significant relations with HIV prevalence and risk behaviour and thus they recommended a modification in devising the existing methodology for greater efficienc...