BACKGROUND The National Health Act, No 61, 2003 in South Africa is the first effort made by the government to protect health-related research participants under law. Implemented on March 1, 2012, the law mandates active consent from a parent or legal guardian for all research conducted with research participants under the age of 18 years. This paper focuses on the Act's implications for school-...

In today modern industrial cities we see that many people having different cultures share the same settlement and form a typical social complex system. People come from other cities or even foreign countries Newcomers bring their cultural values such as clothing, meals, likes and dislikes. As a result of interacting with other people some cultural values change, some completely forgotten while ...

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act proposes the meaningful use of interoperable electronic health records throughout the United States health care delivery system as a critical national goal. As we have moved from medical records on paper to interoperable electronic health records, the rapid and easy sharing of medical data through the Internet makes...

In many application domains, we encounter data which involves a graph encoding certain relationships and a set of items related to the graph. One example is in social websites where the users interact with each other, and share their interests on different items such as music or books. In this case, the direct interactions among the users can be represented as a graph, and the items like music ...

A conceptual look at the distinction between expressed and measured interests is undertaken. Instead of denoting two different aspects of “vocational interests,” expressed and measured interests refer to distinct psychological constructs. Expressed interests are specific intentions and measured interests are what people conventionally mean by “vocational interests.” Using research on how intent...

National health care expenditures constitute revenue to the health care system. However, little is known about how this revenue is distributed across sectors. This article calculates revenues and detailed expenditures for physicians' offices, hospitals, and outpatient care centers in 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2012, using a range of Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics sources. Between 1997 ...