This paper examines the impact of technical change on European bank costs and profits between 1992 and 2000. The estimates suggest that technological change reduced the total costs of European banks at an average rate of 3.8% per annum. However, technical change reduced profits by 0.45% annually over the same period. As found in an earlier study by Altunbas et al (1999) pure and non-neutral com...

background: unsafe transfusion practices put patients at high risk of transfusion transmissible infections. we aimed to evaluate the prevalence of transfusion transmissible infections (including human immunodeficiency virus [hiv] 1 and 2, hepatitis b virus [hbv], hepatitis c virus (hcv) and syphilis) during a period of 18 months among blood donors in the blood bank of lady hardinge medical coll...

In recent years, youth voluntary organizations, community voluntary organizations and different kinds of self-organized grass-root voluntary organizations have been developing rapidly in China, voluntary services are being integrated into our life, and volunteerism has become a value accepted by more and more people. In this paper, the present status and problems of China's voluntary services a...

Copyright: © 2012 Hussain N, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Unanticipated Difficult Airway: Can Sugammadex Rescue can’t Intubate can’t Ventilate (CICV) Scenario? Nageena Hussain1 and Cy...

1CNRS, Unité de Technologies Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Santé (UTCBS), UMR 8258, 75006 Paris, France; 2Chimie ParisTech, PSL Research University, UTCBS, 75005 Paris, France; 3Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, UTCBS, 75006 Paris, France; 4INSERM, UTCBS U 1022, 75006 Paris, France; 5Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany; 6Experime...

Oscillatory activity is a candidate mechanism for providing frequency coding for the generation, storage and replay of sequential representations of events and episodes. We recorded local field potentials (LFPs) and spike activity in the striatum, a basal ganglia structure implicated in behavioral action-sequence learning and performance, as rats engaged in spontaneous and instructed behaviors ...

Historically, there have been five sources for information about the need for immunization: family physicians and other health professionals, public health units, government health bodies, voluntary health agencies and pharmaceutical companies. When these bodies have had the opportunity to present their message directly to parents and others, it has produced results: more children are vaccinate...

Older people need greater access to good eye care: 82% of people living with blindness worldwide are over 50, even though they only represent 19% of the world’s population.1 In South Africa, the 80% of people who are unable to afford expensive private medical insurance are reliant on the state to provide affordable health care.2 Older people have access to primary health clinics in the communit...

1 Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2 EnviroSPACE Lab, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 3 Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 4 Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, 5 Citizen Cyberlab, CERN-UNITAR-University of Genev...

OBJECTIVE To investigate factors influencing variations in clinicians' use of an online evidence retrieval system. SETTING Public hospitals in New South Wales, Australia. METHOD Web log analysis demonstrated considerable variation in rates of evidence use by clinicians at different hospitals. Focus groups and interviews were held with 61 staff from three hospitals, two with high rates of us...