ROMANIANS’ PUBLIC DEBTS SAGA

Romanians’ Public Debts Saga

By the end of 2009, a very cold breath of austerity was blowing from the European financial and banking system and thoroughly was touching every Member State’s economy, but only for some of them perspective of this severe situation is called bankruptcy frequently.By the spring of this year (2010 – author’s note), Greece’s financial problems

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Echocardiographic Evaluation of Indices of Severity of Pulmonary Stenosis in Dogs: Reproducibility and Effects of General Anesthesia

ABSTRACT Background The effects of general anesthesia (GA) on less flow‐dependent (velocity ratio, velocity time integral [VTI] ratio and indexed pulmonary valve area [iPVA]) and flow‐dependent (mean [PVmeanPG] and maximum pressure gradient [PVmaxPG]) indices of severity of pulmonary stenosis (PS) are unclear.Objectives Determine the effects of

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A QUEEN FOR ALL SEASONS: ZENOBIA OF PALMYRA

Throughout the centuries a number of truly remarkable women emerged to awe the world.One of these is a charismatic warrior queen of antiquity, Zenobia, last ruler of the once wealthy and exotic city-state of Palmyra in Syria, that flourished in the late Roman Empire of the third century AD.She rose to power upon the death of her husband Odenathus,

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