Concerns regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) have raised awareness about the negative public health impacts of trade and investment agreements. In the past decade, we have learned much about the implications of trade agreements for public health: reduced equity in access to health services; increased flows of unhealthy commodities; limits on access to medicines; and constrained policy...

background nurses are at risk for symptoms of secondary traumatic stress (sts). the role of social support and mindfulness in predicting sts is important among nurses. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of the symptoms of sts and the role of mindfulness and social support in predicting the sts in iranian nurses in malayer. methods using a cross-sectional analytic research desi...

Background: Although the receipt of subsidies addresses only part of the issues faced by infertile couples, the subsidies and assistance, in the form of public support services, has given rise to questions whether are considered important and satisfying. We aimed to clarify the relationship between the assistance offered by local governments in Japan and the needs of infertile women. Materials ...

The goal of this paper is to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) as a journey planner in complex and large multimodal urban network called Rahyar. Rahyar attempts to identify the most desirable itinerary among all feasible alternatives. The desirability of an itinerary is measured by a disutility function, which is defined as a weighted sum of some criteria. The weight...

Support vector machine modeling has become increasingly popular in chemoinformatics. Recently, several advanced support vector machine applications have been reported including, among others, multitask learning for ligand-target prediction. Here, we introduce another support vector machine approach to add compound potency information to similarity searching and enrich database selection sets wi...