INTERNATIONAL LITHOSPHERE PROGRAM: UPDATE

International Editor's update--japan

For 20 years after the end of World War II, infectious diseases were endemic throughout Japan, which served during this first postwar phase almost as a museum of communicable diseases. Improvements in socioeconomic conditions , infrastructure (especially water and sewerage systems), and nutrition brought about a rapid reduction in rates of acute enteric bacterial and parasitic infections. The d...

International Stroke Genetics Consortium Update.

Created in April 2007, the International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC) has grown into scientific community’s global organizing force for stroke genetics, open to all who can contribute to its mission. Stroke is a leading cause of death worldwide, with 15 million people suffering a stroke per year. Intracerebral hemorrhage, which makes up 15% of all stroke in the United States, results in a ...

Workers' compensation: 1978 program update.

Workers' compensation is one of the few State-administered income-maintenance programs operating throughout the United States. The national "system" to provide benefits for work-caused disability and death actually consists of 50 independent State operations and several special Federal programs. The Social Security Administration developed and continues to improve basic statistics to measure tr...

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International Student Mobility Program (ISMP) Analysis of International Students' Challenges in Iran

In the recent decades, Internalization has been one of the most influential events in the higher education systems worldwide. And recruitment of international students, as one of the most effective strategies to achieve the goals of internationalization, has been a common solution to prevail in the competition between countries in the last decade. Therefore, studying these international stude...