A simple framework is developed to analyze the important role of the bond market for the welfare of a long horizon small investor when both inflation and the real interest rate are stochastic. Closed form solutions for investor utility in different settings are used to show that the welfare loss due to the absence of long term bond markets increases with the investor’s horizon and risk aversion...

The view of evil human nature is important in Chinese and western cultures. The thesis chooses evil human in St. Augustine’s thoughts and Hsun Tzu’s thoughts to compare and analyze evil in these two. St. Augustine, who is called “the Saint of God”, views the definition of evil, the resource of it, and salvations of it from the aspect of religious beliefs. He considers that evil is the privation...

Jean-Paul Sartre and Badr Shakir al-Sayyabe are among the most prominent writers that critiqued destructive role of capitalism patriarchal power system in period Post-World War II crisis. Divided into three chapters, present study examines two eminent literary works history Western Eastern societies fifties last decade: Jean Paul Sartre’s play : The Respectful Prostitute Shaker al-Sayyabe’s poe...

It is customary to attribute the first use of the term rheumatism to the French physician, Baillou, in the 16th century, but anthropological studies indicate that afflictions of this type have been in existence since before the dawn of history. In spite of their antiquity, however, it is only in the past 50 years that the importance of the rheumatic group of diseases has become generally recogn...

Doctors and patients are not natural enemies. On the contrary, there is commonly a special relationship between them, with vulnerability and trust on one side and caring and professional expertise on the other. A medical dispute can create turmoil of that relationship, particularly if it is conducted in the traditional adversarial procedure. Depending on how it develops, the patient may see the...

Studies of nutrition usually depend upon the animal’s urges to eat and to drink. But little has been done to find what factors of the diet rn&l3y those urges. When body weight is employed as a measure of nutritive state, the observer ordinarily is assuming that intake has been sufficient to supply whatever is available. If weight has been lost he often assumes that the diet is inadequate qualit...

Rene Magritte's Golconda1 draws the viewer into a group of increasingly identical men. This progression, from a real, concrete individual (the viewer) to Golconda's undifferentiated mass of abstract mankind, is opposite to Peter Viereck's suggestion that Rubashov evolves from abstract mankind to concrete man in Darkness at Noon2. Golconda draws attention to the men in its center, only to propel...

Sir, Jhumpa Lahiri is a freelance journalist whose collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year (2000). One of her stories, The Treatment of Bibi Haldar, presents a 29 year old woman who suffers from episodes of convulsions. The clinical description suggests a diagnosis of epilepsy for several reasons. The convulsions appeared to hav...

Most human cells utilize both glycolysis and oxidative respiration to generate the energy they need. Although oxidative respiration is more effi cient, glycolysis does not require oxygen and therefore tends to predominate in times of extreme environmental stress. For example, cardiac myocytes will fall back on glycolysis in the hypoxic environment that arises after infarct. This may not be enou...