So I would challenge and encourage you all young and old to grasp this fantastic means of communication as I will and go to the AfPP website and sign up. I look forward to talking with you through both of these fantastic mediums in the future. Ann Abbassi, one our regional leads, and Tracy Coates, our immediate past president, are both avid ‘Twitterers’ so look out for messages from them. We wi...

pollution of urban soils dramatically reduces life and environmental quality. the most commonpollutants are heavymetals and organic contaminants like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinatedbiphenyl. main source of these pollutants is fossil fuels which are pervasive in urban and/or industrializedareas. identifying type and intensity of the pollution is essential to prepare an effec...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the notions of interval valued (∈,∈ ∨q)-fuzzy Boolean (implicative, positive implicative and fantastic) filters in BL-algebras and to investigate some related properties. Some characterizations of these generalized fuzzy filters are derived. Finally, the relations among these generalized fuzzy filters are discussed. It is proved that an interval valued (∈,∈...

background and objectives: respecting privacy means respecting individuals, their dignity and independence. it is mandatory to observe privacy in health-care systems. therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of expressing nursing students’ experience of privacy in pediatrics ward. methods: this qualitative study was done inductively using content analysis method. the participants incl...

The Ulster Medical Society grants to all users on the basis of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence the right to alter or build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creation is licensed under identical terms. When I was a Junior House Officer in the old RVH back in the mid-1990s I thought digital technology wa...