This paper presents a perfect foresight model of speculative attacks on emerging markets. Credit constrained governments are assumed to have two objectives: to accumulate liquid assets in order to self-insure against shocks to national consumption and to insure poorly regulated domestic ®nancial markets. This policy regime generates endogenous ®scal de®cits de®ned to include the growth of conti...

The end-to-end communication problem is a protocol design problem, for sending a packet from a specified sourcenode s to a specified target-node t, through an unreliable asynchronous memoryless communication network. The protocol must insure reception and termination. In this paper, we measure the complexity of the protocol in term of header size, i.e., the quantity of information that must be ...

Background: In recent years, various noninvasive respiratory support (NRS) of ventilation has been provided more in neonates. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of HFNC with NCPAP in post-extubation of preterm infants with RDS after INSURE method (intubation, surfactant, extubation).Methods: A total of 54 preterm infants with RDS (respiratory distress syndrome) were enrolled in thi...

BACKGROUND Various strategies have been suggested for the treatment of respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the efficacies of two common methods of RDS management among neonates with low birth weight. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cohort study was conducted on 98 neonates with definite diagnosis of RDS during 2008-2009. The neonates were divided into...