This study investigated the effects of early institutional care on memory and executive functioning. Subjects were participants in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) and included institutionalized children, children with a history of institutionalization who were assigned to a foster care intervention, and community children in Bucharest, Romania. Memory and executive functioning w...

In 2008, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP)1,2 was established to provide answers for patients with conditions that had long eluded diagnosis. Based on the success of the UDP, the NIH elected to support the program’s expansion into a network of medical research centers in 2013, the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Here we outline the steps required for...

Urbanization is rapidly spreading throughout the developing world. An urban slum poses special health problems due to poverty, overcrowding, unhygienic surroundings and lack of an organized health Infrastructure. The primary causes of neonatal mortality are sepsis, perinatal asphyxia and prematurity. Home deliveries, late recognition of neonatal illness, delay in seeking medical help and inappr...

The efforts of some institutional review boards (IRBs) to exercise what is viewed as appropriate oversight may contribute to deceit on the part of investigators who feel unjustly treated. An organizational justice paradigm provides a useful context for exploring why certain IRB behaviors may lead investigators to believe that they have not received fair treatment. These feelings may, in turn, l...

JVlANY GRADUATE PROGRAMS in hospital administration do not have courses in multi-institutional structure, but refer only tangentially to this expanding segment of our healthcare delivery system. The administrative residency offers an excellent opportunity to study multi-institutional systems from within. This article shall define a prototype for the residency experience within a particular type...

This paper considers the diagnostic value of a computer screening system as an alternative, or adjunct, to traditional battery testing systems in identifying the presence of specific learning disabilities (SLD) in university students. In the present times of increasing numbers of students with various forms of disabilities entering tertiary education, institutional fiscal constraints, problems ...

this study was designed to investigate the demand for institutional credit among small scale farmers in imo state. a sample of 40 livestock and 50 food crop farmers were selected respectively using multistage random sampling technique. data were collected with a well structured questionnaire administered to a total of 90 randomly selected farmers. data collected were analyzed using descriptive ...

A college freshman reports a sexual assault and is met with harassment and insensitive investigative practices leading to her suicide. Former grade school students, now grown, come forward to report childhood abuse perpetrated by clergy, coaches, and teachers--first in trickles and then in waves, exposing multiple perpetrators with decades of unfettered access to victims. Members of the armed s...

Does being located near institutional investors benefit corporations? We examine whether the ‘presence’ of local institutional investors, as measured by the equity assets under management of local institutions, reduces information asymmetry in the stock market. Firms in high institutional presence areas experience higher liquidity, faster information incorporation, lower costs of equity capital...