BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Making centrifuged deposit smears from sputum to detect acid-fast bacilli (AFB) is considered hazardous. We carried out this study to stain the centrifuged deposits with carbol-fuchsin in sputum containers and to decolourize and counterstain their smears made on glass slides. METHODS The centrifuged deposits of 180 sputum samples from pulmonary tuberculosis patients we...

The molecular interaction volume model (MIVM) developed by Tao is a fluid-based derived from statistical thermodynamics and fluid phase equilibria. MIVM was applied successfully to predict each element’s activity in Mn-based alloys, namely, Mn-C Mn-Fe, Mn-Fe-C systems. calculated binary parameters between metals (Fe, Mn) nonmetal (C) confirming strong Fe Mn alloy. indicated that iron has great ...

OnApril 1, 2002, the Japanese government lifted a blanket guarantee of all deposits and began limiting the coverage of time deposits. This paper uses this deposit insurance reform as a natural experiment to investigate the relationship between deposit insurance coverage and market discipline. I find that the reform raised the sensitivity of interest rates on deposits, and that of deposit quanti...

Abstract Materials such as biocompatible metals, ceramics, composites, and polymers are used in the fabrication of biomedical implants which human body especially for replacement hard tissues. However, they degrade with time since subjected to different mechanical conditions long-term exposure fluids corrosion. Therefore, curb these limitations, surface properties usually coated thin metallic n...

We thank the World Bank for funding and Asli Demirguc-Kunt and participants at the World Bank conference on deposit insurance for their comments and suggestions. The views expressed are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect those of the World Bank, its Board of Directors, or the countries they represent.

The subject of government bank regulation is intimately intertwined with that of government deposit insurance. If the government is to insure bank deposits, it should also have some say in the risks that insured banks are allowed to take, otherwise it would leave itself wide open to unlimited potential losses. John H. Kareken (in this issue) comes close to arguing that banks without government ...