A 62 year-old woman experienced a sudden onset severe headache and collapsed at work. EMS was called and, when they arrived, the patient was awake but confused. She was immediately transported to the ED. The patient had a history of hypertension and was on HCTZ and ACE inhibitor in addition to daily aspirin. On examination, she was somnolent and had sonorous respirations at a rate of 10 per min...

T paper proposes a new methodology to infer investors’ expectations about the speed of leverage adjustment implicit in the prices of credit instruments. On average, the credit markets imply a fairly rapid annual speed of adjustment of 26% toward a firm’s predicted leverage. The speed varies considerably across partitions formed by the differential implications of the pecking order, market timin...

E conomic integration among countries has continued to deepen over the past decade. This is especially visible at the regional level, with the escalation of Regional Integration Agreements (RIAs) ranging from Free Trade Areas (FTAs) to Customs Unions (CUs). Nowadays, many developing countries have entered a new regional integration agreement with developed and developing countries. S...

Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is commonly identified as one of the drivers global biodiversity loss and has gained increasing attention from national governments, conservation NGOs, international institutions private sector. We argue that analyses dynamics IWT within Europe must evaluate overlooked interconnections between legal illegal trades. In this brief commentary, we develop a new conceptu...

Croatia’s economy has been highly promoted since the country declared independence in 1991. This paper discusses some specific trade disputes that produce crucial effect on country’s economy, speculates needs and expectations for joining World Trade Organization, combines basic international relations’theories with WTO Cardinal Principles, makes an attempt interpreting case studies, which Croat...

The field of Applied Literature is concerned with the practical usages of literature, including the potentials of literature to empower and transform individuals. Jungian criticism, with its suggestions of the possibility of individuation and self-actualization in individuals, has been an important source for scholars in the field of Applied Literature for healing. Still, the traditional Jungia...

The abundant literature about institutions regards the postwar trade regime as its " beau ideal " (Goldstein, Rivers, and Tomz 2007a, 38). Yet, it was only five years ago that Andrew Rose published the first systematic empirical analysis of its effects. Contravening conventional wisdom, he found that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization, did...

Developing countries have increasingly opened their economies to trade. Research about trade policy in developed countries focuses on a bottom-up process by identifying economic preferences of domestic groups. We know less about developing countries. We analyze how economic and political variables influenced Costa Rican voters in a referendum on CAFTA-DR, an international trade agreement. We fi...