This paper will outline some of the restrictions on what can and cannot appear at the end of a Burmese word. We will see that historical changes have resulted in a rather unusual phonotactic distribution. By looking at how Burmese speakers treat foreign loanwords in their language, it will be revealed what phonological principles the Burmese have generated in order to make sense of their phonot...

ed by one investigator, and reviewed for accuracy by at least one additional investigator. DATA SYNTHESIS AND ANALYSIS We qualitatively synthesized the results of included studies. Due to the large number of observational trials and heterogeneity among the studies, meta-analysis was not performed. We constructed evidence tables outlining study characteristics and results, organized by key quest...

This study aims to investigate the effect of the Twin Deficits, i.e., deficit of government budget, and deficit in current account, on the foreign debt in Jordan during the period 1977 – 2004. A four variables cointegration analysis with the variables: outstanding foreign debt, budget deficit, current account balance proxied by its index, and gross fixed capital formation were exploited. Dicky-...

This paper explores a model of bond prices where agents have diverse prior beliefs about domestic and foreign inflation. In the long run, the foreign exchange forward premium reflects expected differences in inflation, but in the short run, it depends upon the diversity of prior beliefs. If some people have diffuse priors about a country’s inflation process, then its currency commands a forward...

a 42-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of odynophagia and neck pain after swallowing a piece of bone. anteroposterior (ap) and lateral neck x-ray showed the foreign body. rigid esophagoscopy under general anesthesia was performed and foreign body extracted by rigid bronchoscopy.

purpose : to evaluate the accuracy of ocular sonography in measurement of size of intraocular foreign bodies (iofb) methods : in a case series study, 58 consecutive patients with intraocular foreign body were included. ocular sonography was performed to detect intraocular foreign body and the results were compared with the same intraoperative findings. results : metallic material was found to b...

introduction: foreign bodies in the upper aerodigestive tract often get lost following inappropriate attempts at removal. children may present late with localized infection, posing a challenge to the otolaryngologists in a referral set-up in diagnosing and retrieving such foreign bodies.   case report: a two-year-old boy presented with refractory purulent rhinorrhea and intermittent low-grade f...

introduction: the diagnosis of foreign bodies in the upper aerodigestive tract is usually straightforward but sometimes it can be delayed or the location of esophageal and upper airway foreign bodies can be mistakenly interchanged.  case report: we present two interesting cases that caused diagnostic challenges which could have led to serious complications if a greater delay in diagnosis had oc...

discussion this case has two unusual features. first, it is difficult for a foreign body to reach the urinary bladder in males. second, the presented case was left unattended for two whole weeks. introduction urinary bladder is the most common site for foreign body in the urinary tract. self insertion of a long object into the bladder is very difficult in males. we present a case of self-insert...