Background and Objective: Dengue fever has become a major public health problem in many world regions due to increased trade, travel, and problems controlling Aedes vectors. This policy brief aims to review, analyze, and present evidence-based policies for dengue prevention and control. Methods: The present research is a compilation of a policy brief in Iran, carried out in 3 stages according ...

This paper is a survey of a large number of informal definitions of “intelligence” that the authors have collected over the years. Naturally, compiling a complete list would be impossible as many definitions of intelligence are buried deep inside articles and books. Nevertheless, the 70-odd definitions presented here are, to the authors’ knowledge, the largest and most well referenced collectio...

we have recently become aware that the office of foreign assets control (ofac) of the us department of the treasury has imposed new sanctions against iran. regulation 560.538 provides that us persons should not handle publishing services for written publications (whether journals or books) if any of the authors of the manuscript are employed by the government of iran. the government of iran is ...

Background: This study aimed to investigate the state of spirituality in the general medicine curricula in Iran.    Methods: Reference books for general medicine were reviewed and data were analyzed according to the qualitative content analysis method.    Results: After reviewing references, it was found that only 35 paragraphs of the educational reference pages dealt with this subject. Relat...

Self-help books for psychological disorders have become increasingly popular, yet there is surprisingly little research on their scientific status or overall utility. We identified 50 top-selling self-help books for anxiety, depressive, and trauma-related disorders. Using a scale derived from the literature on bibliotherapy, expert psychologists rated each book on overall usefulness, grounding ...

Much of today’s information is digitised. Representation of information is increasingly becoming digital. Yet, paper books remain popular, as many readers prefer the reading experience that paper books provide, which digital interfaces cannot. In this paper, our aim is to improve users’ reading experience by enhancing books with digital functionalities. We conducted a user survey study to ident...

has the pleasure of sending to you our Publications 2003. This publication, nineth in a series, has 194 entries and includes 181 articles in English or Finnish; summarized in English for your convenience. We hope that you will find the booklet useful. Should you want to make a request for any listed book or article, please contact the authors or our Library at the addresses below. The library a...

$l 00 each (paperback). These two booklets are part of a series intended 'to encourage advanced research in history and literature' and also to help 'the non-specialist who wants to know more about the civilization of the Tudor and Stuart periods'. They follow the established, and sensible, format of the series, a more or less chronological survey of British publication during the periods descr...

The authors show that the Mesoproterozoic (1.6-1.0 bn year before present) was no “boring billion” but a “bustling billion” - not only with Stromatolites and their apex in the Calymmian and Ectasian but also with the presence of multicellular organisms. To make it visible a graphical reconstruction was created. For a long time, it was assumed that there existed no noteworthy biosphere on Earth ...