contrast to their medical activity, however, most barber-surgeons seem to have shrunk from major (and dangerous) surgical operations. Their lists of clients and patients reveal that they were consulted by the middle and upper classes of society, to which they themselves belonged according to stock books of their property. About one-third of the barber-surgeons held official posts, up to that of...

The shipwreckage of the oil tanker Prestige and Erika occurred respectively on November the 19 2002 off the coast of Galice in Spain and on December the 12 1999 in the Golf of Gascogne. Both led to large oil spills that contaminated hundreds of kilometres coast: more than 10 000 tons of fuel oil n°6 were released in the Atlantic Ocean in the south of Finistère as a consequence of the Erika and ...

Migration has historically been a feature of all societies. Over the decades, labor migration seeking employment major revenue source for Nepali youth. This study aims to explore patterns, remittances flow, and consequences foreign in agrarian households. The empirical analysis revealed that low individual income, lack prospects, poor economic conditions migrants, non-existence social assistanc...

PRESTIGE is a project for applying telematics to assist the dissemination and application of clinical practice guidelines and protocols. Previous publications have described PRESTIGE's technical approach, including the use of a generic model for representing the knowledge content of clinical guidelines. This approach offers the possibility of 'plug-and-play' electronic distribution of clinical ...

Ranking scientific productivity and prestige are often limited to homogeneous networks. These networks are unable to account for the multiple factors that constitute the scholarly communication and reward system. This study proposes a new informetric indicator, PRank, for measuring prestige in heterogeneous scholarly networks containing articles, authors, and journals. P-Rank differentiates the...

Medical plants have a great value in traditional knowledge related to human health care both used whole plant or consisting in curative remedies. These valuable uses has been led to commercial use of medicinal plants and their derivatives which makes great benefits. Also there is a growing desire to use of completely natural materials as curative drugs around the world. These facts show up a gr...

One of the great unanswered questions in governance research is, Why do directors serve on boards? Drawing on self-determination theory, a theory of total motivation that combines both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations, we find that the prestige associated with being a director, the ability to have influence, and identification with the director role make directors less likely to exit; howeve...