The rule of ideologies which ban interest or usury which is earned through lending money has led to developing economic systems that differ from conventional economic systems in which ,interest has been entered. The presence of systems not relying on interest, in turn, has questioned the necessary motives in capital establishments through savings. In this paper, while defining the concepts of m...

BACKGROUND: Aerosol therapy using albuterol is one of the most prescribed asthma treatments. The most frequently used methods of aerosol delivery are pneumatic jet nebulizer (JN), pressurized metered-dose inhaler (pMDI), and breath-actuated nebulizer (BAN). Choosing among these devices is usually not based on thorough comparison of efficiency or cost. We compare the efficiency of these three de...

INTRODUCTION This study examined the impact of antismoking activities targeting the general population and an advertising campaign targeting smoking during pregnancy on the prevalence of smoking during pregnancy in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. METHODS Monthly prevalence of smoking during pregnancy was calculated using linked health records for all pregnancies resulting in a birth (800 61...

The 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Academy Neurology (BAN) is being celebrated. BAN was founded on May 5th, in 1962. The BAN initial leaders and members are treated with reverence, as well as the honorable place where its foundation took place: the Institute of Neurology, first in Brazil, at the backyards of the ancient National Hospice for the Insane, which is an important and fruitful birt...

We show that BAN logic, an epistemic logic for analyzing security protocols, contains an inference rule that wrongly ascribes a certain property to cryptographic hash functions. This faulty inference rule makes the BAN logic not ‘sound’. That is, it is possible to derive counterintuitive beliefs which cannot be computationally justified. We will prove this in this paper. This result should coun...

BACKGROUND The introduction of total smoking bans represents an important step in addressing the smoking and physical health of people with mental illness. Despite evidence indicating the importance of staff support in the successful implementation of smoking bans, limited research has examined levels of staff support prior to the implementation of a ban in psychiatric settings, or factors that...

BACKGROUND In July 2007, legislation banning smoking in public places was introduced in England. This study investigates the impact of this legislation on smoking in Bury. METHODS A postal survey was undertaken before the implementation of the legislation. The survey was repeated 3 months after the smoking ban. Smoking prevalence was then compared. Participants were randomly selected using th...

This study compared the acute effect of ingesting bananas (BAN) versus a 6% carbohydrate drink (CHO) on 75-km cycling performance and post-exercise inflammation, oxidative stress, and innate immune function using traditional and metabolomics-based profiling. Trained cyclists (N = 14) completed two 75-km cycling time trials (randomized, crossover) while ingesting BAN or CHO (0.2 g/kg carbohydrat...

BACKGROUND In February 2003, a comprehensive ban on tobacco promotion came into effect in the United Kingdom, which prohibited tobacco marketing through print and broadcast media, billboards, the internet, direct mail, product placement, promotions, free gifts, coupons and sponsorships. OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of the UK's comprehensive ban on tobacco promotion on adult smokers' aw...

A szerbek egyik legfontosabb jogalkotása az 1844. évi Szerb Polgári Törvénykönyv (SZPTK), amely több mint száz évig maradt hatályban. Keletkezése arra időszakra nyúlik vissza, amikor ország még Oszmán Birodalom része volt, majd túlélte a Fejedelemség, Királyság, Szerb-Horvát-Szlovén Királyság és Jugoszláv államjogi rendszerét, mielőtt szocialista Jugoszlávia felszámolta 1945-ben. Létrehozásának...