sensing the blowing winds of change

Sensing the Blowing Winds of Change

Gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) has become a major health problem in the West, utilizing extensive amounts of health resources. It affects roughly 10-20% of the general population.1 Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are the mainstay of its treatment and the majority of GERD patients will need to use them over the long run. Sales for PPIs are more than thirteen billion dollars a year, mostly...

The Winds of Change.

Distance learning and other modes of online instruction, such as those offering hybrid models, are closely linked to the manner that new technologies are tested, implemented and evaluated. This paper works from an understanding of where technologies supporting instruction have converged in 2002, and suggests that by taking an evolutionary view of technology we will improve the design of instruc...

The Winds of Change

Pakistani women are increasingly making an impact at the international level though it will take time for this to make a difference in the plight of women at home. According to a recent poll conducted by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Pakistan is the third most dangerous country for women, preceded only by Afghanistan and the Congo. With domestic violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty ...

The winds of change.

Winds of change.

Publisher: Richard S. Nicholson Editor-in-Chief: Floyd E. Bloom W lnds of Change Editor: Ellis Rubinstein Managing Editor: Monica M. Bradford Deputy Editors: Philip H. Abelson (Engineering and ApBEIJING, CHINA-A broad path runs straight north from Tiananmen Square through arch plied Sciences); John I. Brauman (Physical Sciences); Thomas R. Cech (Biological Sciences) afterarch, splitting the For...

a synchronic and diachronic approach to the change route of address terms in the two recent centuries of persian language

terms of address as an important linguistics items provide valuable information about the interlocutors, their relationship and their circumstances. this study was done to investigate the change route of persian address terms in the two recent centuries including three historical periods of qajar, pahlavi and after the islamic revolution. data were extracted from a corpus consisting 24 novels w...