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Author ' s personal copy Is it the weather ? Comment

This comment discusses some errors in a recent paper by Jacobsen and Marquering [Jacobsen, B., Marquering, W., 2008. Is it the weather? Journal of Banking and Finance 32 (4), 526–540], in which the authors challenge our previous finding that stock market returns exhibit seasonal patterns consistent with the influence of seasonal affective disorder on investor risk aversion. We find that we cann...

A Comment by the Author of Pink Ribbon Blues: How Breast Cancer Culture Undermines Women’s Health

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M aternal and Child health is a global priority. Numerous treaties, initiatives and programmes have been formulated to try and improve the health and well-being of pregnant women and mothers and their children. The latest effort is the Millennium Development Goals that aim to inspire countries to drastically reduce maternal and child mortality and address specific disease and related challenges...

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C hild health promotion activities offer some of the most cost-effective interventions that any government can make. Many child disease prevention activities are affordable, can be delivered effectively and offer decades of good health for a modest investment. This chapter focuses on some key health promotion activities in South Africa including: immunisation, the Integrated Management of Child...

Author Response to Comment on "Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning: A Case Series in North Iran"

Dear Editor; I wish to thank the authors for their careful comment (1), on our short report entitled “Aluminum Phosphide Poisoning: A Case Series in North Iran” (2). Unfortunately, as we were excited to display the findings of our series, some facts were missed from the methods of the article. The results presented in our series was collected from eight patients with definitive aluminum phosp...