Equipping Immigrants: Migration Flows and Capital Movements Both policy makers and researchers have devoted considerable attention in recent years to the large current account and capital account imbalances among OECD countries. In particular, the size of the United States current account deficit has attracted intense attention and spawned numerous explanations. There are undoubtedly many reaso...

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure. As a consequence, governments shift their expenditures in favour of transfers and subsidies and away from capital expenditures. This expenditure shift is potentially enhanced by citizens’ preferences to be compensated for the risks of globalization (“compensation hypothesis”)....

introduction: intellectual capitals in an organization are assets that their value is increased over time and with sharing with others. since hospitals are dominant in providing medical services, management of intangible assets could be very important for them. to avoid the waste of costs and efforts, it is necessary to identify the priority and importance of each dimension of intellectual capi...

social capital and quality of life are one of the most important growing concepts in society. social capital is productive as any other capital and it is considered as a suitable ground to take advantage of economic and cultural capitals as well as a way for the success of a society. this study aimed at evaluating the effect of social capital on the quality of life of azadshahr's citizens....

In the title compound, C(24)H(19)ClN(2)O(3)S, the sulfonyl-bound benzene ring forms dihedral angles of 38.1 (2) and 81.2 (1)°, respectively, with the formyl benzene and benzene rings. The mol-ecular conformation is stabilized by a weak intra-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bond, which generates an S(5) ring motif. The crystal packing is stabilized by C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, which generate C(7) zigzag ch...

Newcastle disease virus (NDV) can cause severe disease in chickens. Although NDV vaccines exist, there are frequent reports of outbreaks in vaccinated chickens. During 2009-2010, despite intense vaccination, NDV caused major outbreaks among commercial poultry farms in Indonesia. These outbreaks raised concern regarding the protective immunity of current vaccines against circulating virulent str...

the main goal of this paper is to estimate the level and distribution of human capital (hc) in tehran province, iran. in doing this we have first reviewed theoretical and empirical literature of human capital. and then we used do gum method for estimation of level and distribution of households’ human capital in tehran. the do gum method is based on three old methods of estimation. we used late...