28 research outputs found
Freeports: An Introduction to the Next Battleground of International Tax Avoidance
Freeports, special zones that offer favorable tax policies to goods being housed therein, are quietly and quickly becoming a favored investment tactic used by the ultra-wealthy. In this article, Charles F. Whitten discusses how freeport expansion threatens to unravel international efforts to combat tax avoidance and money laundering.https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lawjournalonline/1107/thumbnail.jp
The Social and Cultural Context of Coping with Sickle Cell Disease: II. The Role of Financial Hardship in Adjustment to Sickle Cell Disease
Recent evidence on the negative psychological effects of poverty suggests that economic status alone might account for the adjustment problems attributed to sickle cell disease (SCD). The relationship of SCD and financial hardship to adjustment was examined in 327 ill children and their parents. SCD and hardship contributed independently to impaired child and parental functioning. For parents, illness severity had more negative effects than did financial hardship, but forPeer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66919/2/10.1177_0095798499025003003.pd
Stability over time of hematological variables in 197 children with sickle cell anemia
One hundred ninety-seven children with sickle cell anemia were followed for 4 years at the Wayne State Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center to evaluate the stability of the hematological variables (Hb, Hct, RBC count, MCV, %HbF and %HBA 2 ) over time. The mean values of the hematological measurements taken during three separate 16-month intervals were used to represent an individual's values. The correlations of the hematological variables between intervals ranged from a low of 0.46 for %HBA 2 to a high of 0.91 for %HbF. Correlations that spanned two intervals (an average of 32 months) were of the same magnitude as those that spanned only one interval (an average of 16 months), suggesting that there was no decrease in the degree of stability of these variables as the time between measurements increased. The stability of the correlations between variables within intervals, and the stability of the coefficients of the first two principal components of the six hematological variables over time suggested that the relationships among variables were also stable. In a recent report [Odenheimer et al, 1983], we used the values of the six hematological variables collected at an individual's first visit to the sickle cell center to identify four hematologically distinct subgroups of children. In the current report, we found that as many as 83% of the individuals remained in the same subgroup in at least two of the three follow-up intervals, suggesting that the factors that contributed to this classification were the result of stable, rather than transient phenomena.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/38236/1/1320180316_ftp.pd
The Social and Cultural Context of Coping with Sickle Cell Disease: III. Stress, Coping Tasks, Family Functioning, and Children’s Adjustment
Conceptions of individual and family coping with sickle cell disease (SCD) must incorporate several disease and sociocultural factors. This article proposes an integrative model and tests the relative contribution of model parameters to the prediction of social, academic, and psychological adjustment of children with SCD. The individual coping and family functioning variables most highly predictive of the child’s psychological outcomes (anxiety, depression, and positive mood) include parental psychological functioning, maturity demands made of the ill child, and the quality of relations with parents and siblings. Academic adjustment was significantly predicted by parental academic expectations and by the child’s rejection of a restrictive sick role. Competent social functioning also was predicted by the extent to which the ill child rejected the role of being sick.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67288/2/10.1177_0095798499025003006.pd
Outcomes in patients undergoing complex cardiac repairs with cross clamp times over 300 minutes
A new species of Dichaea (Orchidaceae) for northern Brazil
Dichaea Ă© o maior gĂŞnero da subtribo Zygopetalinae e possui sua maior diversidade de espĂ©cies na AmĂ©rica do Sul. Diante disto, este trabalho teve o objetivo de descrever uma nova espĂ©cie de Dichaea ocorrente na regiĂŁo norte do Brasil, Dichaea bragae Valsko, Krahl & Holanda. A nova espĂ©cie foi coleta ao norte de Manaus em área de floresta ombrifila e floresceu em cultivo. O epĂteto Ă© em homenagem ao Dr. Pedro Ivo Soares Braga (in memorian), orquidilogo que realizou vários estudos na AmazĂ´nia brasileira. A nova espĂ©cie possui afinidade com espĂ©cies de Dichaea serĂŁo Dichaeopsis, contudo sĂŁo diferenciadas vegetativamente e na morfologia do labelo
Outcome of the First wwPDB Hybrid / Integrative Methods Task Force Workshop
Structures of biomolecular systems are increasingly computed by integrative modeling that relies on varied types of experimental data and theoretical information. We describe here the proceedings and conclusions from the first wwPDB Hybrid/Integrative Methods Task Force Workshop held at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, UK, on October 6 and 7, 2014. At the workshop, experts in various experimental fields of structural biology, experts in integrative modeling and visualization, and experts in data archiving addressed a series of questions central to the future of structural biology. How should integrative models be represented? How should the data and integrative models be validated? What data should be archived? How should the data and models be archived? What information should accompany the publication of integrative models
Freeports: An Introduction to the Next Battleground of International Tax Avoidance
Freeports, special zones that offer favorable tax policies to goods being housed therein, are quietly and quickly becoming a favored investment tactic used by the ultra-wealthy. In this article, Charles F. Whitten discusses how freeport expansion threatens to unravel international efforts to combat tax avoidance and money laundering.https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/lawjournalonline/1107/thumbnail.jp