Defining Price Stability: Public Accountability of the European Central Bank’s Goal Independence by Mattias Vermeiren

“…In this article, I examine the politics of accountability underlying the ECB’s re-definition of its price stability objective through a comparison with the strategy review of the Federal Reserve, which went further than the ECB by setting an average inflation target that intentionally seeks to pursue periods of above-target inflation to compensate for periods of below-target inflation. …”
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Thyroid Carcinoma. Case Report and Literature Review by José Alberto Puerto Lorenzo, Lidia Torres Aja, Eslinda Cabanes Rojas

“…A case of a 66-year-old white-skinned patient of rural origin is presented with a history of suffering from ischemic heart disease and arterial hypertension, for which she was undergoing medical treatment. He went to the office with an increase neck volume in the anterior region for several months, accompanied by malaise, gallop rhythm and sometimes dysphagia to solid foods. …”
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THE YIJING AND THE CRISIS OF WESTERN TRADITION by Ernest Ženko

“…It seems, however, that the reception of the Yijing in the West went full circle; from being an exotic and mystical text from an unknown and foreign practice, to an important corrective of a Western tradition that found itself in crisis during the twentieth century, to the global culture industry.…”
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PROBLEMS OF INFLATION, UNEMPLOYMENT AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN THE TRANSITION OF EASTERN BLOC COUNTRIES TO MARKET ECONOMY: EXAMPLES FROM SELECTED REGIONAL COUNTRIES by Yrd. Doç. Dr. Remzi Bulut

“…After the year 1991, the countries that consisted the old Eastern Bloc went in a pursuit of a new economical and political system. …”
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A Case of Idiopathic Hypereosinophilic Syndrome Causing Mitral Valve Papillary Muscle Rupture by Tiffany Tamse, Avind Rampersad, Alejandro Jordan-Villegas, Jill Ireland

“…She was incidentally found to have hypereosinophilia of 16,000 on complete blood count and nonspecific colitis and pulmonary edema on computed tomography. She went into cardiogenic shock due to papillary rupture of her mitral valve requiring extreme life support measures including intubation and extracorporal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as well as mitral valve replacement. …”
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L’Observatoire photographique de l’A 89 : une démarche abandonnée au bord de l’autoroute by Pierre Enjelvin

“…It also questions the reasons for what was considered as a motorway project which went pear-shaped... at least regarding one of the initial objectives which was that of evaluating by means of photography a public policy in favour of the landscape.…”
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Small cell lymphocytic lymphoma of eye annexes. Case presentation by Icilany Villares Álvarez, Julio Dámaso Fernández Águila, María de los A. García Dueñas, Alejandro Pérez Capote

“…The case of a patient who went to the consultation due to left palpebral ptosis is reported and physical examination showed bilateral involvement, with tumors in the lower right eye bulbar conjunctiva and in the left eye upper bulbar conjunctiva. …”
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Republican Dentists in Latin America: Luis Amado Blanco Fernández and his Contributions to Cuban Dentistry by Victoria María Sueiro Rodríguez, Asela Crescencia Villaurrutia Flores, Julia Roquelina Fuguet Boullón

“…The Spanish Civil War caused a mass exodus of men and women of science and letters, who went into exile stripped of their university chairs. …”
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NATURE AND MEASURES OF IMPROVING HOUSING DELIVERY TO LOW-INCOME EARNERS IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF THE FCT by YAHAYA ADADU, CANICE E. ERUNKE, APAT KIDEN TANIMU

“…The study examined the six National Housing Policies that have been undertaken so far by different regimes and administration in the country, and went further to also analyze the factors that have militated against housing delivery to low[1]income earners in the FCT, with emphasis on Kuje and Bwari Council Areas. …”
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Tackles and sidesteps by Herman Wasserman

“…The question to be investigated by looking at these debates is whether the widespread criticism of tabloids should be seen as part of journalistic ritual, namely the routine application of ethical guidelines and the performance of professional standards, or whether these debates went deeper to provide a structural critique of the South African media. …”
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Os impactos da reestruturação produtiva de uma grande empresa siderúrgica sobre o mercado de trabalho local by Simone de Souza, Antonio Carvalho Neto

“…The level of school education required by the company was raised, but wages went down. Younger workers (18 to 29 years o age) predominate over against older ones (30 to 39 years). …”
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Successfully treated osteomyelitis with 20 years of evolution, covering the whole humerus (case report) by Yavor Grigorov, Viktor Vasilev

“…Results: The early postoperative period went smoothly. The surgical wound healed primarily, the bone infection was completely repaired, and the right upper extremity is in good functional condition, with no evidence of circulatory or neurological problems. …”
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Face au cyclone Irma ! Le rôle des populations dans la gestion de la crise à Saint-Martin (Petites Antilles, îles du Nord) by Stéphanie Defossez, Monique Gherardi

“…This study is based on a scientific RETEX in which the individual dimension of crisis management is integrated, by asking to what extent do individuals participate (or not) in crisis management (directly and indirectly) and how? The scientist team went to meet populations to assess how they lived and prepared themselves to cope with TC Irma in order to present the invest of populations in crisis management. …”
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Perempuan dan Ketahanan Pangan (Rumah Tangga) pada Masa Revolusi by Widya Fitria Ningsih

“…Women were primarily responsible for food security and nutrition within their households when their husbands, fathers, and sons went off to war. However, the narratives on women and their complex relationship with food problems during the Indonesian Revolution have, for long, merely been focused on their involvement in the communal kitchen. …”
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Aryanization Bureaucrats in Post-Holocaust Romania by Stefan Cristian Ionescu

“…While many of them were removed from the civil service, became unemployed, went into hiding, or were arrested, others thrived – at least temporarily – thanks to their skilful navigation of the post-Antonescu transition, their highlevel connections with the political establishment, and the ability to claim certain merits for their behavior before August 1944, either as victims of or by resisting against the Antonescu regime. …”
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Iatrogenic Transient Complete Heart Block in a Preexisting LBBB by Adil S. Wani, Adebayo Fasanya, Prachi Kalamkar, Christopher A. Bonnet, Omer A. Bajwa

“…We report a case of LBBB that went into transient complete heart block following guide wire insertion during a central venous cannulation procedure.…”
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The Kitchen and the Dacha: Productive Spaces of Soviet Mathematics by Slava Gerovitch

“…At the intersection of work and private life, a tightly knit mathematical community emerged, whose commitment to scholarship went beyond formal duty or required curriculum, a community practicing mathematics as a “way of life.” …”
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Earlier Intervention with Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease by Gerson Suarez-Cedeno, Jessika Suescun, Mya C. Schiess

“…Neuromodulation of subcortical areas of the brain as therapy to reduce Parkinsonian motor symptoms was developed in the mid-twentieth century and went through many technical and scientific advances that established specific targets and stimulation parameters. …”
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First Report of Gallbladder Volvulus Managed with a Robotic Approach by Roberto Bustos, Hassan Mashbari, Antonio Gangemi

“…The postoperatory course went uneventful. The patient was discharged home on postoperatory day 2.…”
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L’abbaye de Lisle-en-Barrois (Meuse) : opportunités et contraintes spatiales d’un temporel cistercien frontalier by Christophe Wissenberg

“…At the turn of the thirteenth century, the abbey classically went beyond its initial circle of restrictions – by moving into the towns – and diversified its supplies (wine and salt) and income (rents), embarking on a process of adaptation – if not abandonment – of its principles in line with seigniorial economy, of which the founding of the villeneuve of Deuxnouds is the most eloquent incarnation.…”
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