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Financial liberalization and macroeconomic performance, empirical evidence from selected Asian countries
Financially repressed economy cannot grow with an increasing growth rate. Thatâs why most of the developing countries move toward liberalized financial system. The basic objective of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of Pakistan, China, and India financial sector liberalization and its impact on macroeconomic performance. This study uses Johansen co integration to provide cross country evidence of long run relationship between macroeconomic variables and financial openness. Results show that there is long run relation among financial openness and macro economic performance in all three countries. Financial liberalization has positive and significant effect on Pakistan macroeconomic performance while negative and significant effect on china economy. The relationship in India is positive but not significantFinancial liberalization, financial depth. Economic growth
Study of the nervous and mental disease called hysteria with special reference to symptomatology, pathology, and treatment
The study of hysterical patients though full
of difficulties and obscurities, is not altogether
impossible to accomplish. hysterical patients are
easily managed, they talk willingly, and they are
not dangerous patients to deal with as many other
mental. cases are. These patients readily lend them-
selves to observation and are Always willing to be
examined. The study of hysteria is very important
as it is a singular malady, of Which everybody' speaks
and which but few physicians know well. This disease
is remarkable in its frequent , for it occurs
in over 90 females out of 1000 females and only those
who work hard escape it. Sydenham (1670) says "of
"all common diseases, hysteria, unless I err, is the
"commonest." It is very difficult to get statistics,
for the physician is rarely consulted for the minor
manifestations of the malady. it is an extremeiy
common disease and frequently gives rise to mistakes
in diagnosis. Thus, one can at once see that a
thorough study of hysteria is important and desirable
from many standpoints, - Medical., Practical,
Scientific and Philosonhical.
This singular mental disease has played a, very
great and important part in the history of all religions
and superstitions, and more so to this day
it plays amost important part in most attractive
moral questions. Great creeds have been spread by
means of the emotion caused by astounding phenomena.
which have always been due to and associated with
hysterical people.
These strange people (hysterics) raised such
admiration and gave inspiration to the crowds by
their natures and their mode of thought, their extraordinary
oblivions or resemblances and their
visions. They saw or heard what others could not
see or hear. These people had odd convictions, and
they felt and thought in another way than the bulk
of mankind. They had an extraordinary r.e]icacy of
certain senses and also had extraordinary inseneibilities,
so that they could perceive, appreciate,
and see what others could not, and they could hear
the most dreadful tortures with indifference and
even with delight. These people could do without
food or sleep for weeks or months, and they could,
se to speak, de without these natural needs. Such
hysterical subjects excited religious admiration of
people whether as prophets, witches, saints of the
Middle Ages etc. They were admired and beatified
or burnt as heretics and witches. They played a
great part in the development of religious and moral
dogmas, castes and creeds.
All these phenomena, we now know, are the
usual symptoms of hysteria. Is it not still true
that if we want to throw some light on the mysteries
of our destiny, to penetrate into unknown faculties
of the human mind, we appeal not to an ordinary person in normal health but to a highly strung neuropathic,
insensible to the things of the world but
whose sensibilities are over excited and who is over
enthusiastic in certain direction. And in our
medical terminology is this not a typical hysterical
subject?
It was the fashion for a certain time to say
that hysteria was a very rare disease for it had a
bad reputation . and a kind of dishonour attached to
it. It was thought that hysteria was frequent only
among French women but this is nonsense. Indeed
French physicians were the pioneers to thoroughly
appreciate this disease before others did. All
civilised nations are the same - they have the same
mind and the same body and the same miseries and
destinies - so that why should only the French nation
suffer from hysteria? If hystericals were supposed
to be less numerous in other countries it is because
the physicians did not recognise them, and furthermore,
even after diagnosis, they would not, give it
the proper appellation as, we have already remarked,
hysteria had a bad reputation and a kind of dishonour
attached to it. Now the time has reached when
medical men are more candid and their prejudices
have vanished, and their pride and false patriotism
have given way to scientific truth - so that we find
hysterics] s al] over the world. We must always ire -
member (i) That hysterical diseases are very bad1,
characterised from their plysicfl. point of view,
(ii) That hysterical diseases are only well characterised
from their mental and moral point of view,
(iii) That hysterical diseases are uncommonly similar
to many kinds of surgical and medical affections
for which they are so often mistaken. Physicians
have often been misled by phantom tumours of the
stomach, the ovaries and the uterus and spurious
haemoptysis. Diseases supposed to be situated in
the viscera may simulate anything. Paralysis, contractures
and ana.esthesias due to hysteria may simulate
many organic diseases and offer great difficulty
in diagnosis. We ought to do homage to Charcot for
having first called attention to these various hysterical
phenomena which were too often wrongly, ignorantly,
nay criminally dealt with by the surgeon
or physician
\u3cem\u3eTrifolium occidentale\u3c/em\u3e: A Valuable Genetic Resource for White Clover Improvement
Trifolium occidentale Coombe is a stoloniferous, diploid (2n=2x=16) perennial clover indigenous to Portugal, Spain, France, and the British Isles. It grows in relatively dry coastal habitats, in sand dunes and on shallow pocket of soil (Coombe 1961; Coombe and Morisset 1967). As the species grows naturally in saline, dry habitats, it is potentially a source of drought tolerance genes that could be used for the improvement of white clover (Trifolium repens L.) cultivars. Although T. occidentale is reported to be one of the progenitors of white clover (Williams et al. 2012), the 2x forms of T. occidentale cross with difficulty with white clover, resulting in near-sterile triploid hybrids. The two species were first crossed by Chou and Gibson (1968) and subsequently by Gibson and Beinhart (1969), and Chen and Gibson (1974). The relative success of producing F1 hybrids was increased by use of colchicine doubled (4x) T. occidentale. Based on these reports, our objectives were: (1) to artificially double the chromosomes of T. occidentale using colchicine; (2) to use tetraploid (4x) T. occidentale as the pollen parent in crosses with white clover to produce large numbers of F1 hybrids; (3) to evaluate hybrids both cytologically and morphologically; and (4) to develop ad-vanced backcross and intercross progeny for future breeding and selection using white clover as the recurrent parent
Portfolio Management And Disposition Effect Empirical Evidence From Pakistan.
Kahneman and Tverskyâs approach to preference under uncertainty is aversion to loss realization. This paper is an attempt to highlight this phenomenon with a unique approach. In order to beat the market fund managers are required to manage their portfolio at regular intervals. The tendency to sell the winners too early and ride the losers for long âdisposition effectâ can affect the Management decision of fund managers. This paper investigates the mediating role of disposition effect between mental accounting, aversion to regret, self control and portfolio Management. For this purpose we use the extended version of Shefrin and Statman framework and include Dylâs tax consideration. In order to provide empirical evidence survey has been conducted from mutual fund managers. CFA and Cronbachâs alpha is used to test the reliability of the instrument. AMOS tool is used to test the structure equation model for disposition effect and portfolio Management. Results confirmed that disposition effect plays significant role of mediator between mental accounting, aversion to regret, self control and portfolio Management. However tax consideration has direct loading on forward Management. It means that disposition effect plays significant role in decisions of fund managers; however investors are aware of tax consideration
Effect of Health Care Professionalsâ Continuing Education Programme on Diabetic Patientsâ Outcomes in Mukalla City, Yemen
Purpose: To evaluate the impact of educational intervention by health care providers on clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes patients in a Yemeni health facility.Methods: A prospective, one-group and pre- and post-test design to assess the effects of health care providersâ education on clinical patient outcomes was undertaken. The study took place in Al-Noor Charity Clinic (ACC), Mukalla City, Yemen. The subjects of this study were type 2 diabetes patients who received health services at ACC and met the inclusion criteria. Patientsâ diabetes-related clinical parameter assessed were fasting blood glucose, weight, blood pressure, and lipid profile, i.e., cholesterol, triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol and high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol) at baseline, i.e., before the intervention programme, and also at 6 months after the intervention.Results: There was significant improvement in clinical outcomes: fasting blood sugar (p = 0.004), systolic blood pressure (p = 0.003) diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.05), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (p = 0.005) and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (p = 0.001), but total cholesterol (p = 0.33) weight (p = 0.404) and triglyceride (p = 0.056) did not improve.Conclusions: Educational intervention of health care providers program does improve diabetic patientsâ clinical outcomes.Keywords: Diabetes care; Health care providers, Patients' outcomes, Blood pressure, Lipid profile, Cholesterol, Yeme
Pathological Effects of Aflatoxin and Their Amelioration by Vitamin E in White Leghorn Layers
White Leghorn layer breeder hens, 30 weeks of age, were divided into 12 groups (A-L). Group A was kept on basal feed and served as control, while group B was offered feed supplemented with vitamin E (100 mg/Kg). Groups C-G were offered feed containing 100, 500, 2,500, 5,000 and 10,000 ”g/Kg aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), respectively, whereas groups H-L were offered same dietary levels of AFB1 along with vitamin E (100 mg/Kg). The experimental feeds were offered for three weeks and afterward all the groups were switched over to basal feed for next two weeks. Body weight, absolute and relative weights of liver and kidneys of AF fed birds were significantly higher than control group. Pathological lesions in aflatoxin (AF) fed birds included enlarged, pale and friable liver, swollen kidneys and hemorrhages on different organs. Histopathological lesions in liver included fatty change, congestion and hemorrhages, while in kidneys tubular necrosis, cellular infiltration, congestion and hemorrhages were found in groups fed AFB1 at 500 Όg/Kg and higher doses. In AF fed hens, no significant ameliorative effects of vitamin E could be observed upon AF induced decrease in feed intake, gross pathology and histopathological alterations and organ weight except body weights. It was concluded that the vitamin E ameliorated the AFB1 induced toxic effects in some of parameters studied
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