Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2004: 30(1) Introduction Review articles are often commissioned or submitted for publication in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. Review papers summarise current knowledge and often attempt to reconcile conflicting scientific results from individual primary studies. As such, they are an essential resource for bus...

in the process of modernization, traditional dress is usually the first issue which changes in traditional societies. undoubtedly, western societies, benefiting from their worldwide cultural industry, are leading the globe to a great uniformity which peoples’ dress is one of its apparent out comes. today, in our society emergence of west culture through the process of globalization on one hand,...

In their recent editorial, Baltussen and colleagues provide a concise summary of the prevailing discourse on priority-setting in health policy. Their perspective is entirely consistent with current practice, yet they unintentionally demonstrate the narrowness and moral precariousness of that discourse and practice. I respond with demonstrations of the importance of ‘interrogating scarcity’ in a...

background and aim: grounded theory has taken some different theoretical perspectives since its creation in 1967 by barney glaser. considering that applying grounded theory partly depends on an awareness of its philosophical perspectives, gaining knowledge about these various perspectives is required for health care professionals who are interested in studying the social processes. this review ...

RTKs and Their Ligands Aberrant, uncontrolled activation of receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs) is the “original sin” of many human cancers, in that this activation can both initiate and drive the evolution of tumors (1). Mutation and overexpression of the multiple members of the epidermal growth factor/ErbB receptor family, to cite only a single example, constitute cancer drivers that have been c...

One of the effects of the globalization process has been the diffusion of international management mindsets. Such a process of diffusion may be contributing to an increasing homogeneity of managerial practice around the world, but important differences still remain. The research reported in this article analyzes management as a process in the making, i.e. as a dynamic interplay between local cu...

This paper is concerned with the robust analysis of the discourse structure of a text via underspecification. Most current discourse theories (e.g. Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) by Mann and Thompson (1988), Abduction by Hobbs et al. (1993) or Segmented Discourse Representation Theory (SDRT) by Asher (1993)) require detailed world and context knowledge for the derivation of the discourse str...