Wartime Toxicology: Perspectives from a Downrange Medical Toxicologist

f/sla from learner perspectives: a social activity or a cognitive process

in the past couple of decades sociocultural theory of sla and its implications in efl contexts have attracted attentions of research circles worldwide and aroused some controversies. firth and wagner (1997) have questioned the principles of the cognitive view which gives importance to mental constructs in favor of sociocultural view which highlights social and contextual constructs. but if soci...

Empowerment of Medical Toxicology in Bangladesh: Inspiration from the APAMT

In the last issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), editor-in-chief, Dr. Reza Afshari focused on an important contemporary issue of empowering toxicology in the Asia pacific region (1). The topic drew our attention and we would like to share the situation of Bangladesh in light of this editorial. Dr. Afshari correctly emphasized on forming national societies of medical toxi...

The toxicology laboratory--perspectives.

The scope of activities and services offered by the toxicology laboratory is influenced by a num ber of societal and scientific vectors which change from one decade to another. The factors that mold or determ ine the activities of this arena a re v a r ie d an d f re q u e n t ly p o o rly defined , b u t generally they fall into three broad groups or categories: (1 ) the dem and or need for se...

Toxicology ontology perspectives.

The field of predictive toxicology requires the development of open, public, computable, standardized toxicology vocabularies and ontologies to support the applications required by in silico, in vitro, and in vivo toxicology methods and related analysis and reporting activities. In this article we review ontology developments based on a set of perspectives showing how ontologies are being used ...

Medical ethics and human rights in wartime.