Supplementary Methods 6 MAPPING METHOD 6 General theory behind likelihood maximization 7 MLE for expected degrees κ 7 MLE for angular coordinates θ 8 MLE kernels 8 First MLE wrapper 8 Algorithm 1 9 Second MLE wrapper 9 Algorithm 2 10 Parameter estimation and finite size effects 10 Estimating γ 10 Estimating N and k̄ 11 Estimating β 12 DEALING WITH NEW-COMING ASs 12 SENSITIVITY TO MISSING LINKS 1...

Access to essential medicines is an element of the international agreements on the human right to health. This review summarizes the current situation concerning access to medicines in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) by examining the policies, constitutional provisions and other legal instruments of the Member States. The constitutions of 18 out of 22 EMR countries enshrine health as a h...

Furthermore, epidemiological data regarding stroke burden in Central and Eastern European countries are not acceptable – the incidence and prevalence of stroke in Central and Eastern European countries are still higher than in Western European countries (3-5). Despite improvement in technical support, some countries in the region are struggling with basic organization problems such as forming s...

The cross-national measurement invariance of the teacher and classmate support scale was assessed in a study of 23202 Grade 8 and 10 students from Austria, Canada, England, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, and Slovenia, participating in the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) 2001/2002 study. A multi-group means and covariance analysis supported configural and metric invariance across cou...

Using bank-specific data on U.S. bank claims on individual foreign countries since the mid-1980s, this paper: 1) characterizes the size and portfolio diversification patterns of the U.S. banks engaging in foreign lending; and 2) econometrically explores the determinants of fluctuations in U.S. bank claims on a broad set of countries. U.S. bank claims on Latin American and Asian emerging markets...

BACKGROUND Human rotavirus genotypes G1-G4, G9, P[4] and P[8] are major worldwide causes of acute gastroenteritis in children. Rotavirus genotype G1P[8] is predominant in many countries. In this study, the genotypic diversity of group A rotaviruses were detected in children <5 years of age who were treated for dehydration and diarrhea in Tehran, Iran from October 2004 to September 2008. METHO...