Demographic Trends

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism hopes to see a recovery in tourist numbers to between 12 and 13 million this year, bringing in $11 billion, despite ongoing street violence and more than 70 deaths...

Candidate forums can be quite instructive to a prospective voter. For example, I was privileged to see the candidates for Santa Fe City Council District 4 recently and learn how they work and...

ABSTRACT Despite the prevalence of women caring for stroke survivors, relatively little research has focused specifically on the experience and needs of informal female caregivers of stroke survivors. Therefore, the purpose of this...

ABSTRACT Stroke survivors are at high risk for cardiovascular mortality which can be in part mitigated by increasing physical activity. Self-efficacy for exercise is known to play a role in adoption of exercise...

ABSTRACT This phenomenological study examined the experience of being the father of a child with severe cerebral palsy (CP). Participants were selected using purposive sampling. Two interviews were conducted with 6 English-speaking, biological...

Puerto Rico residents continued their exodus from the island over the past year during tough economic times, with the local population shrinking by 19,099 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, reports Caribbean...

Financial and budgetary, IT and green skills top the list of ten skills that Hays' global offices and clients commonly identify as being in greatest demand. Tokyo, Feb 1, 2012 - (JCN Newswire)...

HEADNOTE On November 15, 2011, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago held a conference to explore what has been driving the large and rapid increases in Midwest farmland values. Academics, industry representatives, and...

HEADNOTE According to participants in the Chicago Fed's annual Economic Outlook Symposium, the U.S. economy is forecasted to grow at a pace below its historical average in 2012, following a year with an...

Hailstorms in Australia, tornadoes in the southeastern U.S. and windstorms in northern Europe: We're in the second month of the year and already receiving hints that 2012 may be shaping up to equal...

HEADNOTE The seventh annual Community Bankers Symposium, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), was held...

By Ha'aretz Fully 80% of Israeli Jews believe that God exists - the highest figure found by the Guttman-Avi Chai survey since this review of Israeli-Jewish beliefs began two decades ago. The latest...

An economically distressed community in Southern Oregon now boasts a new, $6.2 million wine-making facility and education center, in large part because of local donations. The unemployment rate in Douglas County in the...

When we rebranded our consulting firm a number of years ago, we decided to call it BusinessTruths because we believe certain business adages are universally true. Things like "cash is king" or "concentrations...

Japan? Not again. After 20 years of trying to call the bottom why don't people just give up...most have To be fair, I haven't been calling the bottom for 20 years. However, it...

New York Community Bancorp reported $117.7 million in fourth quarter earnings, down from $149.8 million a year ago as earnings for the year slipped to $480 million from $541 million. The Westbury-based bank...

The number of multi family buildings sold in New York City increased 33 percent in 201l compared to 2010, with institutional investors driving the 43 percent year-over-year jump in dollar volume, according to...

As a result of the positive interim analysis, the FAME II independent Data Safety Monitoring Board, or DSMB, has recommended investigators stop patient enrollment in this trial as the DSMB considers it unethical...

While the New Orleans area lost 2,900 jobs between November and December, it was up 6,000 positions compared with the same month a year earlier, according to nonseasonally adjusted Louisiana Workforce Commission figures...