The public CbCR requirement for EU financial institutions leaves leeway to the reporting firms as regards calculating and presentation of data. Based on a sample CbCRs published by EU-headquartered multinational bank groups, we analyze behavior degree transparency across reports. We observe large heterogeneity with respect place publication CbCR, its content, readability data tables well list e...

Previous narrative research by TANESA found rural primary school students in Mwanza Region to be sexually active from the age of 12 years. The Regional Education Office established a program to protect primary school girls from sexual abuse following 1995-96 reports to the rural School AIDS Committees (SACs) that female students were being sexually harassed and abused by primary school teacher...

of real interest to all interested in the future of our hospitals and their maintenance as voluntary institutions. The Home was founded by the late Mrs. W. E. Gladstone for children who lost both their parents in the cholera epidemic of 1866, and was originally established at Woodford. The Institution gradually changed in character to a general Convalescent Home, and was removed to its present ...

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Over the last few years we have observed a prominent flourishing of empirical studies on the determinants of new business creation and its effect on the economy. The present study focuses on an important determinant of entrepreneurship: the quality of institutions. This paper is an empirical exploratory work that has the objective of uncovering the relationships between entrepreneurial dynamics...

Since April 2012, 536 laboratory‐confirmed cases of human infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS‐CoV) have been reported to WHO, including 145 deaths (Figure 1). To date, the affected countries in the Middle East include Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia (KSA), United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Yemen; in Africa: Egypt and Tunisia; in Europe: France, Germany, Gree...

In this short article on lemurs I give a concise introduction for non-specialists to these conspicuous and unique animals on the island of Madagascar. INTRODUCTION Madagascar has long been known for its exquisite wildlife. It has been identified as a Megadiversity country and “Hottest Hotspot” for biodiversity conservation (Meyers et al. 2000 Mittermeier et al. 2005) due to the combination of e...