The present study assess association between physical violence during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes. A cross sectional study using McFarlane's Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS) was done. A systemic random sample of newly registered pregnant women seeking routine ANC care at the study...

<i>PEB co-hosted a symposium entitled “Invention, Maintenance, and Renewal of Urban Educational Facilities: Global Challenges and Community Solutions” with the American Institute of Architects’ Committee on Architecture for Education and the CEFPI Urban Education Facilities NE Chapter in...</i>

BOOK REVIEW The French in the United States, an Ethnographic Study Jacqueline Lindenfeld(2000) Bergin and Garvey, Wesport/London, (ISBN 0-89789-903-2, paperback)

We bootstrapped spot rates for Argentinean and U.S. federal government debt instruments, and fitted them with smoothing cubic splines, a non-parametric method, to estimate the term structure of interest rates. When estimating the term structure one must decide how close should the data be...

For a long time during the twentieth century the mainstream economists and economic historians dealt with prevailing theory of basic difference between Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt policies concerning to the Great depression. Nowadays, this contrast does not seem to be so...

The paper deals with questions connected with the present situation on the world oil market. First, we shortly focus on the context and the historical development of the prices of oil and the reactions of the market subjects. We discuss general factors on the oil market. And then we apply these...