international health is still highly dominated by equilibrium approaches. the emergence of systems thinking in international health provides a great avenue to develop innovative health interventions adapted to changing contexts. the public health community, nevertheless, has the responsibility to translate concepts related to systems thinking and complexity into concrete research methods and in...

BACKGROUND Individuals with mental illness often experience stigmatization and encounter stereotypes such as being dangerous or unpredictable. To further improve measures against psychiatric stigma, it is of importance to understand its components. In this study, we attend to the step of separation between "us" and "them" in the stigma process as conceptualized by Link and Phelan. In using the ...

Two unlike metals near one another can break down as they move toward electrochemical equilibrium resulting in galvanic corrosion. We describe a case of electrochemical corrosion resulting in pseudarthrosis, followed by instrumentation failure leading to subarachnoid hemorrhage. A 53-year-old female with a history of cervical instability and two separate prior cervical fusion surgery with subla...

many poets have dealt with and referred to the subject of woman. their attitude towards woman is affected by public perspective and their personal experiences. having looked at descriptions related to relationship of man and woman in ahmad shamloo's and nezami ganjavi's poetry, this paper attempts to introduce two different and general views on woman role and characteristics. although...

cyclin e, her-2 and p53, are considered as major prognostic markers in breast cancer. as they are related in patho-clinical level, we aimed to check if they have any direct interaction on expression of each other. to study the effect of cyclin e on her-2 expression, cell lines stably overexpressing cyclin e or its low molecular weight (lmw) isoforms were generated. to understand the results of ...

PURPOSE Literature on institutionalization of patients with dementia has not considered the role of caregivers' quality of care, which encompasses caregivers' exemplary care (EC) behaviors and caregivers' potentially harmful behaviors (PHBs) toward care recipients. This study sought to understand the role of quality of care in mediating between caregiving stressors and caregiver desire to insti...