groups. The above mentioned proof-of-concept trials demonstrate that optimal intraoperative management of patients not only have an important role in reducing the incidence of POCD, particularly in elderly patients, but also may lead to an improvement in outcome generally following major surgery. It would be very unfortunate if such an excellent review left anaesthetists feeling that POCD was n...

To be added.] ∗This is a revision of the text delivered by the second author as the Jacob Marschak Lecture at the 2001 Far Eastern Meeting of the Econometric Society, Kobe, Japan, July 21, 2001. We thank Julio Rotemberg and Lars Svensson for helpful discussions, and the National Science Foundation, through a grant to the NBER, for research support. Views expressed are those of the authors and d...

A growing empirical and theoretical literature argues in favor of specifying monetary policy in the form of Taylor-type interest rate feedback rules. That is, rules whereby the nominal interest rate is set as an increasing function of inflation with a slope greater than one around an intended inflation target. This paper shows that because of the zero bound on nominal interest rates, such rules...

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From 02.12. to 17.12.2007, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07491 Mining Programs and Processes was held in Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in ...

Tree life: The entire horse chestnut tree is the environment that shapes the mutual adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae bacteria and their phages, as research from Koskella and colleagues has shown. (Photo: Photolibrary.) In the unlikely setting of Oxford University’s Zoology Department, NERC research fellow Britt Koskella studies horse chestnut trees, their bacterial pathogens and, most importa...

Cardiopulmonary bypass with heparin-coated perfusion circuits and reduced anticoagulation is a safe and effective method to improve clinical results in cardiac surgery. Svenmarker and colleagues randomized three hundred coronary artery bypass patients into three groups: Carmeda Bioactive Surface, Baxter Duraflo II and a control group. Outcomes were evaluated using clinical indicators while brai...

The stock versus flow effect of the federal debt/deficit on a real interest rate is examined in a reduced-form equation. The evidence shows a positive and significant linkage between the federal debt and an ex-post, taxadjusted, short-term, real interest rate.

The field of microfinance emerged in the developing world as a vehicle to provide financial services to poor segments of population is gradually being seen as a profitable business opportunity. In the initial stages of development, these activities were perceived to be done with a service agenda. As the micro finance institutions (MFIs) began to mature, they started facing performance dilemma, ...