Neurogenic foreign accent syndrome (FAS) is diagnosed when listeners perceive speech associated with motor speech impairments as foreign rather than disordered. Speakers with foreign accent syndrome typically have aphasia. It remains unclear how far language changes might contribute to the perception of foreign accent syndrome independent of accent. Judges with and without training in language ...

Medication errors can cause various complications and some of these are fatal also. A very unusual complication, an esophageal foreign body, is described herein. It was a single tablet with intact wrapper, cut out from a blister pack which was unknowingly ingested by a child in toto. She was not instructed properly regarding administration of the drug. The peculiarity of this case concerns the ...

We study the impact of foreign institutional investor (FII) flows on stock returns in India. We exploit stock-level daily trading data for FII purchases and FII sales during 2006-2011 to separate stocks into those experiencing abnormally high and low FII flow innovations. We find that stocks with high innovations are associated with a coincident price increase that is permanent, whereas stocks ...

This paper discusses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on market entry and welfare. It assumes that firms may enter markets in the first period as national firms only. In the second period, however, FDI is possible. The paper demonstrates that FDI reduces market entry because equilibrium profits in the second period decline with a decrease in the fixed cost of FDI. Therefore, compar...

Abstract There is a constant evidence of the growth of the foreign indebtedness in all the countries in transition, both EU member states and (pre)accession countries. Status and trends of external debt are important indicators of potential macroeconomic problems, which determines that the management of foreign debt should be a task for all governments. Thus, methodology and measurement of fore...

Foreign body is among complications of surgery. But as a complication of varicose vein surgery it was reported extremely rarely and, to our knowledge, there is only one paper in the literature. A case with retained sponge which was detected five months after varicose vein surgery was presented.