INTRODUCTION The objectives of the present study were to study regional differences in outcome for a paediatric cochlear implant (CI) population after the introduction of universal neonatal hearing screening (UNHS) and bilateral implantation in Denmark. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data relate to 94 subjects. A test battery consisting of eight different tests/assessments was performed in order to rep...

For the last decade, the East German economy has been suffering from high unemployment and low economic growth. Policy makers often point to the lack of entrepreneurship as one of East Germany’s main problems. This paper addresses the question of how East Germany’s integration into an established economy, West Germany, may have hindered a fruitful development of entrepreneurship and how this ma...

We present a computer proof for the empirical observation of Gessel that the number of closed paths in the quarter plane with steps going east, west, south-east, and north-west has a nice closed form.

prevalence of coagulopathies (n=6010) including factor viii deficient (haemophilia a) individuals (n=3205) were investigated and analysed in 24 provinces of iran. for all coagulopathies, the prevalence (per 100,000) was the highest with 24.45 in semnan (north east of iran), followed by hamadan (west) with 17.56, the lowest was observed in kordestan (west) as 0.88, followed by kohkiluyeh & boyr-...

German unification and the subsequent breakdown of economic activity in East Germany initiated enormous migration flows from East to West Germany. People from East Germany moved towards West Germany, where wages are higher and employment opportunities are more favourable. Our paper takes a somewhat broader perspective; it analyses migration flows between four macro regions, i.e. East, North, So...

in more recent years, it has become increasingly recognized that r&d; (research and development) is a key driver of economic growth, a source of innovation and change, and as such stimulates improvements in productivity and economic competitiveness. it is closely associated with knowledge and flexibility, two factors that have gained new significance as a source of competitiveness in an increas...

Neurology and psychiatry: " Oh, East is East and West is West … " " …and never the twain shall meet ". However far removed, the two specialties do have a common root. The main difference has been that disorders with behavioral disturbances came to be regarded as mainly " functional " without a structural basis, while neurology concerned itself with symptoms having an origin in organic changes. ...

This paper examines the influence of latency on cloud computing pricing dynamics. Using Amazon EC2 east and west market spot instance pricing and latency intra-day data from April 9, 2010 to May 22, 2011, we find considerable time variation in spot instance prices and prices are often persistently greater in the west. Bivariate Vector Autoregressive model results show that within-market autoreg...

This paper develops and applies neural network (NN) models to forecast regional employment patterns in Germany. Computer-aided optimization tools that imitate natural biological evolution to find the solution that best fits the given case (namely, genetic algorithms, GAs) are also used to detect the best NN structure. GA techniques are compared with more ‘traditional’ techniques which require t...