The TalkBank Project has constructed a web-accessible database for spoken language interactions with transcripts that are linked on the level of the sentence to both audio and video materials. This database includes several large corpora documenting learning in classrooms, tutorial sessions, meetings, and the home. Now that these data are publicly available, we can begin to build tools to facil...

The paper published in the January 2015 issue of this journal by Gusmano and colleagues entitled “Shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000” has spurred this commentary. We discuss controversial issues surrounding the concept of avoidable mortality in health service research in general and Gusmano’s study in particular. The impact of overall social devel...

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...

abu ishaq tha’labi neishaburi is an outstanding iranian islamic scholar and exegete in the 4th and 5th centuries ah. tha’labi has been a distinguished scholar in different islamic sciences such as arabic literature (grammar and syntax, etymology, arabic word endings, and rhetorical sciences), hadith, interpretation, and the quranic sciences in his era. therefore, numerous students from near and...

in this commentary, i argue that beyond a sophisticated supportive architecture to facilitate implementation of actions on the social determinants of health (sdoh) and health inequities, the health in all policies (hiap) project faces two main barriers: lack of awareness within policy networks on the social determinants of population health, and a tendency of health actors to neglect investing ...