We measured the performance on the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs: dressing, bathing, transferring, toileting, walking, eating) [ 22], and divided patients in the following three categories: independent in all ADLs, dependent on external help in 1 to 5 ADLs, dependent on external help in all ADLs.
Some 460,000 people have been driven from their homes and more than a million are dependent on external aid.
CICR partners with Agros Foundation in Guatemala who's "goal is to invest in self-sustaining, resilient families and communities that are not dependent on external aid".
And many of those additional mouths to feed are being born in countries that are already heavily dependent on external food aid for survival.
By adapting the methodology recently proposed by Rajan and Zingales [Rajan, R.G., Zingales, L., 1998. Financial dependence and growth. American Economic Review 88, pp. 559 587] to firm-level data, we show that government funding disproportionately helps firms from industries that are dependent on external finance.
The kind of powerful conviction that I am referring to fills one's heart with a love that is not dependent on external circumstances for its fullness.
Is silence dependent on external conditions?
Second, we are more than ever dependent on external and unreliable energy suppliers.
"Singapore, being dependent on external demand, is held for ransom," said Joseph Tan, an economist at Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore.
"They are Iraqi nationalists, and now that they're in power, they're less dependent on external support than they were as exiled opposition groups," he said.
Rather, Buddhism says that selves are so changeable and dependent on external circumstances that the idea of a fixed self is an illusion: all is change.
