We study optimal monetary stabilization policy in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model where money is essential for trade and …rm entry is endogenous. We do so when all prices are ‡exible and also when some are sticky. Due to an externality a¤ecting …rm entry, the central bank deviates from the Friedman rule. Calibration exercises suggest that the nominal interest rate should have bee...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine depression in Internet cancer support groups as compared to traditional (face-to-face) cancer support groups and to explore the relationship between Internet use and levels of depression. DESIGN Exploratory, descriptive. SETTING Traditional (face-to-face) and Internet cancer support groups. SAMPLE Convenience sample of 40 patients with cancer, 14 from traditi...

BACKGROUND Cultural biases may affect the individual responses to questionnaires for depression and thus confound the international or multiethnic researches on depression. OBJECTIVE We compared the diagnostic accuracy of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) for major depressive disorder (MDD) in late life between Korean and US Caucasian elderly. METHODS This study ...

Esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula (EA/TEF) associated with distal congenital esophageal stenosis (CES) is a well-known entity. We encountered three patients of EA/TEF associated with long and unusual CES.

Although people with diabetes mellitus have a high risk of depression and depression may increase mortality among people with other conditions, the impact of depression on mortality risk among people with diabetes needs further examination. Using survival analysis, the authors analyzed longitudinal data from the NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study (1982-1992). The findings showed that the pr...

BACKGROUND Previous findings in the literature suggest that the occurrence of depressive symptoms among university students is associated with specific socio-demographic characteristics. No related research studies have been conducted among university students in Cyprus. The current study aims to add more evidence to the literature by estimating the prevalence of clinical depressive symptoms an...

In the last 30 years, Chile has undergone noteworthy economic development and an exponential growth in the access of its population to higher education. The aim of this paper was to review the changes in academic, economic and workforce issues that occurred as a consequence of the growth in supply of undergraduate dental vacancies between 1997 and 2011. Data collected from the Consejo de Educac...

BACKGROUND In a previous study, we reported that the distribution of total depressive symptoms scores according to the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) in a general population is stable throughout middle adulthood and follows an exponential pattern except for at the lowest end of the symptom score. Furthermore, the individual distributions of 16 negative symptom items o...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptom among adolescent is prevalent but advisory service for this symptom is limited, particularly in university. OBJECTIVES (1) To identify depressive students in health science faculties, (2) To evaluate the consequence of depression advisory service by community pharmacist, compared between a group counseling and an individual one. METHODS A two-phase study was de...

Women are widely under-represented in top-level social positions. While several potential reasons may explain this fact (Goldin and Rouse, 2000, Altonji and Blank, 1999), recent findings have emphasised one specific cause as particularly relevant: women are less likely to self-select into competitions (Gupta et al., 2005, Niederle and Vesterlund, 2007, Niederle et al., 2008). Dargnies (2009) sh...