Plenty is being written about predatory publishers (Clark & Thompson, 2017; Pickler et al., 2015) but little is being done to stop them. The one valiant effort to expose them: Beall’s List of Predatory publishers, has been forcibly removed from the Internet (Watson, 2017a), and while someone else has made the list available online (http://beallslist. weebly.com/; accessed 18 September 2017), th...

Bruegel, the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics held a joint workshop in Washington on February 8 and 9, 2007, on how to achieve an orderly reduction in global imbalances. Thirty of the world’s leading experts presented analyses and evaluations of the requirements for such an adjustment. The discussions centered on two sets ...

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objectives the objective of this study was to evaluate factors influencing waiting time in patients of heart surgery centers, and to make recommendations for health-care policy-makers for reducing waiting time and increasing the quality of services from this perspective. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was performed in 2013. after searching articles on pubmed, elsevier, google s...