The article reviews the current social assistance scheme in Lithuania and its recent reform.The aim of this paper is to evaluate the scheme in three dimensions: coverage of poor people, adequacy of benefit amounts, and social assistance reconciliation with work incentives.The analysis of the minimum income protection reform is based mainly on the d
This study investigates active filling friction stir repair (AF-FSR) and passive filling friction stir repair (PF-FSR) for repairing AISI 304 stainless steel sheets, focusing on addressing the challenges posed by high melting point metals.The research involved repairing overlapping 2 mm thick sheets with pre-drilled holes of 2, 4, and 6 mm diameter
When Republican legislators in Arizona failed to approve educational vouchers in four consecutive legislative sessions, a charter school program was approved as a compromise.The charter school policy was written during a special summer session and within three years, over 30,000 students were enrolled in 260 charter schools across the state.Republi
ABSTRACT: Objective: To describe an unusual presentation of a patient with recurrent pituitary apoplexy of an adenoma that switched phenotypes from a nonfunctioning, or silent gonadotroph adenoma (SGA), to a silent corticotroph adenoma (SCA).We discuss the potential etiologies of both recurrent pituitary apoplexy and phenotype switching of pituitar
Gut microbiomes play crucial roles in animal health, and shifts in the gut microbial community structure can have detrimental impacts on hosts.Studies with vertebrate models and human subjects suggest that antibiotic treatments greatly perturb the native gut community, thereby facilitating proliferation of pathogens.In fact, persistent infections f