The Occasional Papers series is intended to provide a forum for examining a wide range of topics of interest to the hemophilia community. The World Federation of Hemophilia does not engage in the practice of medicine and under no circumstances recommends particular treatment for specific individuals. Dose schedules and other treatment regimes are continually revised and new side effects recogni...

The objective of this paper is to study empirically the cyclical behaviour fiscal policies in CEMAC. According literature, are pro-cyclical developing countries. Two main arguments put forward: borrowing constraints during economic downturns; and irrational governments, which do not save enough booms because political pressure groups. Over period 1992 2012, using ordinary least double squares o...

Received March 9, 2004 Abstract Osteogenesis imperfecta is a hereditary disorder of connective tissues characterised by low bone mass and bone fragility. Previous studies demonstrated that cyclical pamidronate therapy is effective in increasing bone density and improving clinical outcomes in children with osteogenesis imperfecta. We report our experience in treating two children with cyclical i...

Very recently, Agarwal et al. (Fixed Point Theory Appl. 2012:40, 2012) initiated the study of fixed point theorems for mappings satisfying cyclical generalized contractive conditions in complete partial metric spaces. In the present paper, we study some fixed point theorems for a mapping satisfying a cyclical generalized contractive condition based on a pair of altering distance functions in co...

We designed a neuro fuzzy control strategy for control of cyclical leg movements of paraplegic subjects. The cyclical leg movements were specified by three ‘swing phase objectives’, characteristic of natural human gait. The neuro fuzzy controller is a combination of a fuzzy logic controller and a neural network, which makes the controller self tuning and adaptive. Two experiments have been perf...

In this paper, we consider, discuss and complement fixed points results for mappings satisfying cyclical contractive conditions established by W. A. Kirk et al. [W. A. Kirk, P. S. Srinivasan, P. Veeramani, Fixed points for mappings satisfying cyclical contractive conditions, Fixed Point Theory, Volume 4, No. 1, 2003, 79-89]. By using our new Lemma we get much shorter and nicer proofs of some re...

We survey both academic and proprietary models to examine how macroeconomic and systematic risk effects are incorporated into measures of credit risk exposure. Many models consider the correlation between the probability of default (PD) and cyclical factors. Few models adjust loss rates (loss given default) to reflect cyclical effects. We find that the possibility of systematic correlation betw...

The procyclical behavior of prices has been a staple of business cycle lore since the work of the early NBER business cycle researchers. This paper reexamines that empirical fact. The aggregate data do not support procyclical price movements as a stable feature of the business cycle. The only episode where it is a robust feature of the data is the period between the two world wars, particularly...

K en johnson of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and Myrl Weinberg of the National Health Council take issue with findings from our survey of drug company–sponsored patient assistance programs (PAPs).1 Our disagreement is partly the result of a healthy debate on how best to structure our health care system. More problematic are the commentaries’ mischaracterizations ...

As recent advances have been made in developing tools to fight tuberculosis (TB), there is also a trend towards increasing advocacy by the civil society for TB research and access. One recent successful effort to increase access to treatment options for TB involved a collaborative effort to identify the need for and barriers to the use of rifapentine (RPT) use in the United States. Survey respo...