This paper estimates the impact of China’s exchange rate changes on exports of competitor countries in third markets, which we call the “spillover effect”. We use recent theory to develop an identification strategy in which competition between China and its developing country competitors in specific products and destinations plays a key role. We exploit the variation—afforded by disaggregated t...

objectives: cerebral palsy (cp) describes a group of disorders in the development of movement and posture in the developing brain. the main aim of this study was to determine the distribution of motor impairment and associated disorders in a population of children with cp. methods: this study was carried out in 2011 during three months, on 200 cp children. multiple sources of ascertainment were...

The International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC) was developed to order medical concepts into classes that have been chosen for their relevance for family medicine. Family physicians use this to label the most prevalent conditions in their practice as well as their patients' symptoms and complaints. At the same time they do not want to be divorced from the needs of the medical community ...

In recent years, the utilization of digital instruments in industries is quickly expanding. This is because digital instruments are typically more exact than the analog instruments, and easier to be read as they are hooked up to a liquid-crystal display (LCD). However, manual data entry from LCD display is tedious and less accurate. This paper proposes a real-time LCD digit recognition system f...

IMPORTANCE Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic cutaneous disease with acutely painful flares that require appropriate and timely treatment. OBJECTIVE To assess how individuals with HS utilize medical care, especially emergency department (ED) care, a high-cost setting, and to describe the health care costs for this group. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Cohort cost-identification s...

The aim of this study was to evaluate biomarkers heat stress (HS) from an automatic milking system (AMS), the relationships between measurements temperature-humidity index (THI), reticulorumen pH and temperature, some systems parameters in dairy cows (rumination time (RT), milk traits, body weight (BW) consumption concentrate (CC)) during summer period. Lithuanian Black White (n=365) were selec...

In the International trade of the commodities, the rate of customs duties and other local duties are determined on the basis of World Customs Organization (WCO) approved HS classification that is followed in most of the countries. Since the classification is based on a number of rules that are subjected to different interpretation, disputes may arise between the customs department and the impor...

this study was conducted to investigate the characteristics of input and output wastewater of the bandargaz wastewater treatment plant on the basis of the data collected during operation and the samples taken during the study period. for this purpose, three samples were taken from the outflow wastewater and 25 quality parameters were tested. also, four soil samples were taken from the soils whi...