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Tapping the Power of Soda Taxes: A Call for Multidisciplinary Research and Broad-Based Advocacy Coalitions – A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Behavior correction of the inverse square law in irradiation room for volumetric source and detector

The inverse-square law is used to calculate the radiation flux at difference distances from the source. This law is applied for point source and point detector in vacuum. This research aims to study the point behavior of volumetric source and detector by undertaking required corrections on inverse-square law through the elimination of scattered neutrons contribution. The measurements have been ...

Navigating Between Stealth Advocacy and Unconscious Dogmatism: The Challenge of Researching the Norms, Politics and Power of Global Health

Global health research is essentially a normative undertaking: we use it to propose policies that ought to be implemented. To arrive at a normative conclusion in a logical way requires at least one normative premise, one that cannot be derived from empirical evidence alone. But there is no widely accepted normative premise for global health, and the actors with the power to set policies may use...

Who's the patient?

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عوامل بازدارنده و تسهیل کننده حمایت از بیمار در تجربیات پرستاران

    Background & Objective: During two recent decades, patient advocacy has been an arguable topic in nursing profession. Although there is a common consensus on patient advocacy as a nurse’s role, some evidence points to difficulties that nurses encounter to advocate patients. Since recognition of barriers and facilitators is the first step to promote the role of advocacy among nurses, this pa...