Social Networking Strategies That Aim To Reduce Obesity Have Achieved Significant Although Modest Results

The UN climate conference achieved some results, albeit modest ones

Significant results of using laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) for the treatment of morbid obesity

Background: Morbid obesity contributes to many health risks including physical, emotional, and social problems. The increasing prevalence of obesity is a major public health concern since obesity is associated with several chronic diseases. Morbid obesity is one of the biggest independent risk factors for early mortality. Various options for the surgical treatment of morbid obesity have bee...

The Persian Cultural Schema: Compliment Response Strategies on Social Networking SitesAmong Persian EFL Learners

Introduction of Cultural Linguistics in the modern ages of communication can address the issue of cultural schema transfer in online communication. Despite a good number of studies on a compliment, this pragmatic behavior has not been examined in the context of online communications such as social networking sites where compliments are commonly paid and received. The present study aimed to exam...

Digital systems aim to reduce breast imaging radiation dose

Because modern digital detectors can be tuned to be more efficient than screen-film systems, they automatically lower the radiation dose to the patient while maintaining the image quality radiologists crave. Photon-counting, the method used in Sectra's detector, for example, minimizes patient exposure to radiation. In a 2006 analysis, the British National Health Service Breast Screening Program...

Data mining in social networking sites : A social media mining approach to generate effective business strategies

Mining social media is a new plan to boom business. The Social media houses vast amount of usergenerated data which can be used for data mining.Marketing enthusiasts are searching for means to utilize these mined business information for the intake of their sales/marketing and advertising teams. The mined information from social platforms can considerably impact business strategy of any busines...