This paper provides a comparative assessment of the e¤ectiveness of macroprudential policies in 12 Asia-Paci…c economies, using comprehensive databases of domestic macroprudential policies and capital ‡ow management (CFM) policies. We …nd that banking sector CFM polices and bond market CFM policies are effective in slowing down banking in‡ows and bond in‡ows, respectively. We also …nd some evid...

This postcoital sperm assessment study was performed over a 10 month time period (November 2014-August 2015). Fifteen couples enrolled in the study. The study was a non-blinded, non-randomized, single-center comparison study comparing The Stork® OTC (Rinovum Women's Health, Monroeville, PA) to natural intercourse (NI), using the subjects as their own control/baseline. This was an efficacy study...

Over the past few years, the significant increase of request for spatial information is observed. Land cover and land use dat abases are needed for land management, urban planning, agriculture, environment protection and many other purposes. New sensors are able to provide very high spatial, spectral and time resolution data, what made the representation of earth surface more accurate but at th...

In the nearly 18 months that have elapsed following enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), health care scholars have debated a key portion of the legislation that has the potential to dramatically impact health care. Section 6301 of the PPACA outlines how the federal government will play an increasingly direct role in shaping comparative effectiveness research (CER...

standardization of photography in plastic surgery is fundamental for pre-operative surgical planning, comparative post-operative assessment, and demonstration of surgical results.1 in rhinoplasty, slight changes in patient or camera position can lessen nasal hump, vary nose size, and alter skin tension.2 in order to prevent these common errors, photographic standardization with high-quality equ...

The purpose of this paper is to present the main characteristics of ActivityLens (AL), an environment that facilitates comparative usability evaluation of web sites. AL supports the usability evaluation process with innovative tools designed for this purpose. The comparative usability evaluation is based on a usability assessment model that is also described briefly. Finally, a comparative usab...