Since the global financial crisis of 2008, a strand literature has documented threshold beyond which development tends to affect growth adversely. However, The evidence rests heavily on internal instrument identification strategies, whose reliability received surprisingly little attention so far in finance-growth literature. Therefore, present paper conducts reappraisal non-linear conclusion tw...

Although no direct evidence exists that the immune system per se initiates the attack on myelin in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), several observations strongly support this theory. Immune infiltrates are present at the sites of greatest damage; animal models (e.g., experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis) prove that T cells alone can transfer disease from affected to unaffected animal...

1Department of Health Management and Health Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; 2Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; 3Department of Research and Development, Telemark Hospital, Skien, Norway; 4Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; 5Department of Transplantation Medicine, Oslo University ...

Multitasking has always been a necessary part in emergency services. However, only recently have advances in cognitive psychology and functional MRI studies allowed us to peer into the multitasking mind and the parts of the brain that control it. This program discusses how we can filter out multitasking “noise”, train to multitask better and identify when we need to avoid multitasking altogethe...

Managing training practices in elite performance domains is recognised to play an important role in preventing musculoskeletal overload, and hence reducing the risk of overuse-related injuries. In international studies spanning four decades, the duration of playing, especially in combination with sudden increases in playing and inadequate rest breaks, remains one of the most common causes of in...

All people on our blue planet should have already asked themselves four questions: (1) How much global pollution can our planet tolerate and still maintain its biosphere sustainably? (2) Can humanity survive the predicted global climate change disaster with any quality of life? (3) What are the principal causes of our failure to retain a healthy life-supporting biosphere? and (4) What needs to ...

Imagine groping your way up the shallow steps of a cinema auditorium, full of a powerful film that will colour the rest of your weekend. Make it a film that has got your heart pumping, made you sweat or startle. For good measure, an auditorium light has just exploded, showering one row of the audience with pieces of glass. Multiply all this 10-fold, and it’s roughly how I’m feeling now. I am th...

Events of breathing interruption are universally observed during sleep. Togo and colleagues [1], in a study to identify respiratory and movement sleep disorders in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients with and without fibromyalgia (FM), employed an apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) of 18 events per hour as the normal limit and reported an absence of diagnosable sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The...