Financial institutions around theworld expected themillennium date change (Y2K) to cause an aggregate liquidity shortage. Responding to the concern, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York auctioned Y2K options to primary dealers. The options gave the dealers the right to borrow from the Fed at a predetermined interest rate. Using the implied volatilities of Y2K options and the on/off-the-run spre...

Projects can cause organizations to perform in new ways resulting in the generation of knowledge. Project learning occurs when new knowledge is captured, disseminated, and used by the project team. Y2K utility projects were studied with respect to knowledge benefits and management. Projects from developed countries using western technology were found to have knowledge benefits but their organiz...

There are many commercial tools that address various aspects of the Year 2000 problem. None of these tools, however, make any documented use of plan-based techniques for automated concept recovery. This implies a general perception that plan-based techniques is not useful for this problem. This paper argues that this perception is incorrect and these techniques are in fact mature enough to make...

OBJECTIVE To examine lung cancer survival and the impact of comorbidity in the Central Denmark Region from 2000 to 2011. METHODS We performed a population-based cohort study of lung cancer patients diagnosed during four 3-year calendar periods (2000-2002, 2003-2005, 2006-2008, and 2009-2011) in the Central Denmark Region. The Danish National Registry of Patients was used to identify 9,369 inc...

Background and purpose: Laryngeal cancers are associated with high rates of mortality and disability. No effective screening test is proven for this disease, so, the best way seems to be controlling the disease by identifying and eliminating individual predisposing factors. The aim of this study was to pave the way for a better understanding of the risk factors and factors affecting the type an...

The development of stem cells services has grown rapidly throughout the world since 2004, as well in Indonesia. This is because have unique properties that can differentiate into various types, making it promising to repair tissue damaged by diseases, especially degenerative conditions. purpose this study was obtain an overview regulation so be carried out public after enactment Health Law Numb...