WMA investigates its future president

Row rumbles on over suitability of top Indian doctor for WMA president.

A row has erupted among prominent Indian doctors about the suitability of Ketan Desai, a former president of the Medical Council of India, as president of theWorldMedical Association, a position he is due to take up in October 2016. The disagreement centres around charges brought against Desai in 2010 by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, which accused him of having sought a bribe from a ...

NIEHS investigates Arctic health issues.

Pollution Issues, both issued in 1997, which detailed the unique environmental and health problems facing the Arctic's ecology and populations [see EHP 106:A64-A69 (1998)]. This past May, health and environmental officials, research scientists, medical providers, leaders of indigenous communities, and concerned Arctic citizens met in Anchorage, Alaska, to explore these issues at the Internation...

Using Target Costing to Investigates Competitive Price

This paper has presented research in progress concerning the contribution of target costing approach to achievement competitive price in the Iraqi firm. The title of the paper is one of the subjects that get large concerns in the finance and business world in the present time. That is because many competitive firms have appeared in the regional and global markets and the rapid changes that cove...

WHO investigates mysterious outbreak in South Sudan.

Aging effects on recycled WMA porous asphalt mixtures

Nowadays, the use of reclaimed asphalt pavements (RAP) is often combined with Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) technologies with several benefits in terms of environment, cost and mechanical performance. Concerns still exist related to in-service and aging characteristics of warm recycled mixtures since WMA technologies have been developed over the last decade and hence long term performance data are not...