ASTHMA AND STROKE: A NARRATIVE REVIEW

Asthma and stroke: a narrative review

Abstract Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, usually characterized by chronic airway inflammation, bronchial reversible obstruction and hyperresponsiveness to direct or indirect stimuli.It is a severe disease causing approximately half a million deaths every year and thus possessing a significant public health burden.Stroke is the second leading Din

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Promoting Entry and Efficiency via Reserve Prices

Reserve prices are used by sellers to modify the allocation induced by standard auctions.The existing literature has shown that, if the number of bidders is fixed, a reserve price can be used to increase expected revenues.This comes at the expense of efficiency when the auctioned good goes unsold.Instead, when the number of bidders is not fixed, a

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Effects of Measuring Devices and Sampling Strategies on the Interpretation of Monitoring Data for Long-Term Trend Analysis

A thorough and reliable assessment of changes in sea surface water temperatures (SSWTs) is essential for understanding the effects of global warming on long-term trends in marine ecosystems and their communities.The first long-term temperature measurements were established almost a century ago, especially in coastal areas, and some of them are stil

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