BACKGROUND Public health research provides evidence for practice across fields including health care, health promotion and health surveillance. Levels of public health research vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries, and are lowest in the EU's new member states (in Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean). However, these countries now receive most of the EU's Structural Fun...

Haemoglobinopathies, including thalassaemias and sickle-cell syndromes, are demanding, lifelong conditions that pose a significant burden to patients, families, healthcare systems. Despite the therapeutic advances resulting improvements in prognosis accomplished past decades, these patients still face important challenges, suboptimal access quality care areas with developing economies, changing...

The field of heterogeneous computing is growing rapidly. New concepts and systems appear daily. Hence, it is important to fit each new contribution into its proper place in the puzzle called heterogeneous computing. This is possible only if an adequate taxonomy/classification exists, one that can show whether or not a new system is heterogeneous, and if so, what kind of heterogeneity it exhibit...

ischemia-reperfusion injury is the tissue damage happened when blood supply returns to the tissue after a period of ischemia or shortage of oxygen. this brain injury initiates an inflammatory response involving the expression of adhesion molecules and cytokines. the aim of this study is investigating the effect of hydroalcoholic extract of  cyperus rotundus l. on the expression of the bcl-x1 an...