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Investment Thesis for Biogen Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB)
(Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, 2017-06)This investment thesis for Biogen, Inc. is one in a series on Applied Financial Economics that focuses on company valuations. The authors are mainly students at The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins School of ... -
Prominent Economists’ Views: China’s Exchange Rate—Fixed or Floating?
(Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, 2017-05)China’s economy has slowed down in the last several years, with annual GDP growth falling from 10.6 percent in 2010 to 6.7 percent in 2016. In February 2016 Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), ... -
Plat of Guilford: Baltimore City & County Maryland in The Roland Park District, 1000 Acres of Restricted Land
(The Roland Park Company, 1913)1 map on sheet approximately 76 x 51 cm. Scale 1:2,400. -
Road Map of Greater Baltimore, Compiled from Official Records for the Automobile Club of Baltimore
(Automobile Club of Maryland, 1931)1 map; 62 x 53 cm. Scale 1:36,000 -
Electric Distribution, Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore
(Consolidated Gas, Electric Light, and Power Company of Baltimore, Electric Distribution Department, 1937)1 map; 38 x 23 cm. Scale ca. 1:500,000. -
Metropolitan District of Baltimore, MD
(Baltimore Association of Commerce, 1929)1 map on sheet 46 x31 cm. Scale ca. 1:410,000. -
Oldtown Development Guide: A Design Supplement to the Oldtown Urban Renewal Plan
(Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, 1970)54 pages, illustrations, maps 22x29 cm. -
Johns Hopkins University News-letter, Volume 36, Number 51 (1932 May 10)
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Johns Hopkins University News-letter, Volume 35, Number 52 (1931 May 12)
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Area and Height District Map: Part of the Zoning Ordinance. On the Base Map of Baltimore City.
(Baltimore City Bureau of Plans and Surveys, 1928)1 col. map; 78 x 62 cm. Scale 1:25,000 -
USING BALANCED SCORECARD TO HELP IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF CARE AND SERVICE FOR THE PRIVATE CLINICS IN TAIWAN
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-23)Aesthetic as opposed to National-Health-Insurance-Bureau (NHIB) affiliated clinics are largely unregulated by healthcare authorities in Taiwan. Their management is mainly focused on financial performance. Consequently, ... -
USING BALANCED SCORECARD TO HELP IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF CARE AND SERVICE FOR THE PRIVATE CLINICS IN TAIWAN
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-05-17)Aesthetic as opposed to National-Health-Insurance-Bureau (NHIB) affiliated clinics are largely unregulated by healthcare authorities in Taiwan. Their management is mainly focused on financial performance. Consequently, ... -
Exploring heterogeneity of stated preferences through latent class analysis
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-27)Patient preferences have been increasingly incorporated into clinical and regulatory decision-making. It leads to a growing interest in advancing and applying methods to study preference heterogeneity. Latent class analysis ... -
NEIGHBORHOOD VARIATION IN THE RATE OF CHILD WELFARE CONTACT
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-28)In the United States, the child welfare system serves a vulnerable population of children with extensive health needs. With momentum building for place-based interventions to promote community health, population-level ... -
BANKS UNCHAINED: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BANK REGULATION IN THE UK 1945-2015
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-21)This dissertation seeks to understand why banking regulation has not led to banking stability. In broader terms it looks at how the state tries to control the market and why this fails. Specifically this dissertation ... -
Geospatial Health Equity in the US and India
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-19)Background Health equity is a public health priority in the US and globally, as people and their governments view large, objectively measurable health disparities through a lens of social justice. Inequities in child and ... -
THE ROLE OF GDNF SIGNALING IN MAINTENANCE OF SPERMATOGONIAL STEM CELLS AND PROGENITOR SPERMATOGONIA IN THE MATURE MOUSE TESTIS
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-17)Infertility affects about 10% of couples around the world and roughly half of the cases are due to infertility of men. Amongst those cases are men who are infertile due to the lack and/or dysfunction of spermatogonial stem ... -
Semiparametric Estimation in Observational Studies and Randomized Trials
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-27)Researchers often seek robust inference for a parameter through semiparametric estimation. Semiparametric estimation is useful, for example, for survival analysis, for estimating growth parameters in longitudinal studies, ... -
The pathogenic role of eosinophils in autoimmune myocarditis and inflammatory dilated cardiomyopathy
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-17)Myocarditis is a rare but potentially devastating inflammatory disease of the heart. Severity can vary widely from asymptomatic to fulminant disease and sudden death. Up to 30% of myocarditis patients go on to develop ... -
THE POSITIVE FAMILIES PROGRAM: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF A FAMILY ORIENTED MEDIA-BASED PROGRAM IN THE ARAB WORLD
(Johns Hopkins UniversityUSA, 2017-04-07)Families in the Arab world are rapidly changing and facing unprecedented political, social and health-related challenges, affecting the way families function and interact. However, few programs are implemented in the region ...