This paper empirically investigates the x-eciency (technical and allocative) in Australian banks. A non-parametric method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used to arrive at the eciency scores. Banks in this sample were found to have low levels of overall eciency compared with the banks in the European countries and in the US. The results indicate that, as a source of overall inec...

Surely it is time for us all to make every effort to evolve as a species and become more fully human. To be fully human is to be humane. To be sub-human is to be inhumane. In order to evolve in this way and become more fully human we must defme and refine our ethical and spiritual responsibilities and sensibilities. And we must redefine what it means to be human. 'Ine origin of the word human i...

This prospective randomized trial was carried out to test the efficacy of a specific intervention for reducing the extent of their malnutrition and to change behaviour of mothers relating to child-feeding practices, care-giving, and health-seeking practices under the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project (BINP). The study was conducted in rural Bangladesh among 282 moderately-malnourished (we...

We analyze a setting common in privatizations, public tenders and takeovers in which the ex post e cient allocation, i.e. the first best, is not implementable. Our first main result is that the open ascending auction is not second best because it is prone to rushes, i.e. all active bidders quitting simultaneously, that undermine its e ciency. Our second main result is that the second best can b...

It is well known that a convolutional code is essentially a linear system def ined over a finite field. In this paper we elaborate on this connect ion. W e will def ine a convolutional code as the dual of a complete linear behavior in the sense of W illems. Using ideas from systems theory, we descr ibe a set of general ized first-order descriptions for convolutional codes. As an application of ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Free radical generation and consequent oxidative stress in thrombotic cerebrovascular stroke have a distinctive role in the pathogenesis of ischemic brain injury. One of the potential injurious effects of homocyst(e)ine in occlusive vascular diseases is free radical generation. In the current study, we investigated the status of oxidant stress in the acute phase of thromb...

From the Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute and Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 715 Albany St., W-507, Boston, MA 02118, where reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. Loscalzo. ©1998, Massachusetts Medical Society. N 1969, McCully made the clinical observation linking elevated plasma homocyst(e)ine concentrations with vascular disease. 1 He reported autops...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A number of investigations support the theory that the elevated plasma homocyst(e)ine is associated with occlusive vascular disease. The aim of this study is to examine whether moderate hyperhomocyst(e)inemia is an independent risk factor for cerebral infarction. In addition, we examined the association between plasma homocyst(e)ine and the severity of cerebral atheroscle...

Amaç: Çalışmamızda ülkemizde yürütülmekte olan ulusal kanser tarama programı sonuçlarının ilimiz özelinde değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntem: İlimizde, Kanser Erken Teşhis Tarama Eğitim Merkezleri (KETEM) tarafından 01.09.2018-01.09.2019 tarihleri arasında taraması yapılan bireylerin bilgileri kayıtlarından retrospektif olarak taranmıştır. Kolorektal için gaitada gizli kan testi s...