Edgar Pullicino FRCP, PhD Department of Medicine, St Luke’s Hospital, Gwardamangia, Malta Email: [email protected]

results of 162 people that were interviewed, 90 (55.6%) patients were male and the other were female. of these, 74 (45.7%) patients were single and 88 (54.3%) were married. forty-three (26.5%) participants lived in the city. the average age of participants was 11.51 ± 29.11 years. there is no significant relationship between age, gender, education level, residence, and people familiar with the ...

Charles Savona-Ventura Department of Obstetrics Gynaecology University of Malta Medical School Mater Dei University Hospital, Malta [email protected] Abstract Temporal surveys of family control methods being used within the Maltese setting carried out in the 1970's and 1990's had shown a definite shift towards the more effective methods of contraception. The present study was car...

BEGOÑA DÍAZ Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Technology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain HOLGER MITTERER Department of Cognitive Science, University of Malta, Msida, Malta MIRJAM BROERSMA Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands CARLES ESCERA Institute for Brain, Cogni...

J. Ibáñez,1,* R. Oliva,1 F. J. Manjón,2 A. Segura,3 T. Yamaguchi,4 Y. Nanishi,4 R. Cuscó,1 and L. Artús1 1Institut Jaume Almera, Consell Superior d’Investigacions Cientı́fiques, 08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 2Instituto de Diseño para la Fabricación y Producción Automatizada, MALTA Consolider Team-Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 València, Spain 3Departamento de Fı́sica Aplicada-ICMU...

This study explored the relevance of specific factors that influence the development of entrepreneurs in the Maltese setting. The literature focused on exogenous factors such as family, education, culture, institutional support, as well as the political and economic climate. A model based on the literature was drawn and its applicability and generalizability amongst entrepreneurs in Malta was e...

IN THE mid-eighteenth century smallpox was prevalent in Malta. Variolation had been tried as a preventive measure but was found disappointing and dangerous in its results, so much so that its practice was prohibited in 1769 by the Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, which then ruled over the Island., At the time of Jenner's discovery of vaccination in 1798, Malta was occupied by...