Between 1998 and 2002, 25 patients who were treated with a refrigerated or frozen allograft were evaluated. The mean patient age was 48 years. The mean lesion size was 4.5 cm. Validated outcome instruments [Knee Society Score, Western Ontario and McMaster University Score] were used. Clinical and radiographic evaluations were performed pre-operatively and at the most recent follow-up. Histologi...

One measure of social welfare in a society is the economic health of dependent populations, such as the elderly and children. The well-being of these two groups relative to the working-aged population indicates a distribution of income that promotes security at all stages of life. But what of a society that protects its aged much better than it protects its children? This anomalous situation oc...

submitted to Cashless Society Roundtable, April 2013, Dublin Barriers to Further Commercialization of NFC Pilots in Western Europe Tatjana Apanasevic PhD Student Wireless@KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Electrum 229, SE-16440, Kista, Sweden; [email protected]

People have a folk theory of social change (FTSC). A typical Western FTSC stipulates that as a society becomes more industrialized, it undergoes a natural course of social change, in which a communal society marked by communal relationships becomes a qualitatively different, agentic society where market-based exchange relationships prevail. People use this folk theory to predict a society’s fut...

1 We thank Alejandro Manelli, Lones Smith, Peter Sørensen, Len Mirman, Eric Balder, Nicholas Yannelis, Mark Machina, an associate editor, and two anonymous referees, and seminar participants at Illinois, Wisconsin, Arizona, Arizona State, Alabama, Western Ontario, Paris, and at the Southern California Economic Theory Conference at Santa Barbara, Society for Economic Dynamics 2000, Fall 2000 Mid...

The comparative approach regarding the ethics of surrogacy from the Western secular and Islamic bioethical view reveals both commensurable and incommensurable relationship. Both are eager to achieve the welfare of the mother, child and society as a whole but the approaches are not always the same. Islamic bioethics is straightforward in prohibiting surrogacy by highlighting the lineage problem ...