Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment? Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost to national income from new investment. This paper begins by reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers. It then prov...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In current clinical practice, old patients with stroke are less frequently admitted to neurorehabilitation units following acute care than younger patients based on an assumption that old age negatively impacts the benefit obtained from high-intensity neurorehabilitation. Our objective was to test this assumption empirically in a large sample of patients with stroke. ...

Bariatric surgery is increasingly performed on overweight individuals. A significant benefit with respect to cardiovascular (CV) events and survival has been documented. After weight loss, reduction of albuminuria/proteinuria is almost consistently seen; small studies documented retardation of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) loss after bariatric surgery; reduction of blood pressure (BP) is...

The water crisis in arid and semi-arid areas causes more integrated studies regarding the utilization of urban wastewater. In this research, the analytic hierarchy process was conducted in 2014 according to the relative weight of criteria resulted from a questionnaire and a primary normal matrix. The results showed that the criteria including the quality of wastewater and benefit per co...

Severe sepsis and septic shock are major problems as the result of high rates morbidity andmortality in intensive care units (ICUs). In the presence of septic shock, each hour of delay inthe administration of effective antibiotics is associated with a measurable increase in mortality.Aminoglycosides are effective broad-spectrum antibiotics that are commonly used in ICUs forthe treatment of life...

Participation in international trade potentially brings huge benefits to developing countries. However, the design and setup of the international trade regime, most importantly the rules and regulations stipulated in the agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO), often make it difficult for developing countries to fully tap this potential. As will be argued in this paper using descriptiv...

Patients with advanced heart failure (HF) have high mortality rates, to a relatively greater extent in those with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class IV versus III, justifying consideration of cardiac transplantation in this high-risk population.1,2 For many of these patients, gains in pharmacologic therapy have helped significantly in delaying progression to transplantation requ...