Let me say at the outset how pleased I am to have the honour of visiting your beautiful state and of speaking with you tonight. I come, as you know, from an organization created through the vision of American leaders like Franklin Roosevelt -an organization, however, that has recently been widely caricatured as a giant paper factory and a talk shop -a huge, sprawling bureaucracy, totally out of...

BACKGROUND Networks are known to improve performance and create synergies. A research network can provide a significant advantage for all parties involved in research in surgery by systematically tracking the outcome of a huge number of patients over a long period of time. The aim of the present study was to investigate the experiences of surgeons with respect to research activities, to evaluat...

Cyber physical systems (CPS) and cyber infrastructure are a key elements of the national infrastructure, and securing them is of vital importance to national security. There is ample evidence that these systems are vulnerable to disruption and damage due to natural disasters social crises, and terrorism. CPS applications are becoming more widespread, ranging from healthcare patient monitoring s...

3 Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. *A listing of the Comparison of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Treatments Trials Research Group is available at www.aaojournal.org. Financial Disclosure(s): The author(s) have no proprietary or commercial interest in any materials discussed in this article. Supported by the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda...

Abstract This paper tests for uncovered interest parity (UIP) using daily data for twenty-three developing and developed countries through the crisis-strewn 1990s. We find that UIP works better on average in the 1990s than in previous eras in the sense that the slope coefficient from a regression of exchange rate changes on interest differentials yields a positive coefficient (which is sometime...

There are 55 National Heart Failure Societies (NHFS) and Working Groups within the Association (HFA) providing important support to HFA in development of new ideas programmes promotion heart failure (HF) as a target for both healthcare professionals researchers. Every year since 2011, has organized NHFS Summit aiming address needs societies discuss best ways improve cooperation among national b...