Introduction: This study carried out to investigate the causes and motivations of older people residing in nursing home. Methods: A qualitative description study was designed by choosing a sample of the elderly residing in a nursing home in Tabriz, Iran. Based on purposive sampling, fifteen residents in the age range of 65-85 participated in the study. Data was collected through unstructur...

License to glue eplication of DNA and cohesion of the resultant sister chromatids are two activities that must be coordinated. found that the same " licensing " process that gets DNA ready for replication is also necessary to allow loading of the cohesin complex responsible for sister chromatid cohesion. Gillespie and Hirano used the sequence of yeast cohesin-loading proteins to identify human ...

The Last Resort? An Overview of Discussion and Research on the Use of Compulsory Drug Treatment in Psychiatry The discussion on the use of compulsory drug treatment is reignited by changes in legal regulations. The following article introduces the aspects of the legal framework, outlines core positions of the ongoing political discussion, and by following empirical studies considers questions o...

Traditional public transport is evolving towards more flexible services and operation modes in order to better serve the needs of the population, capture additional demand, and increase its profitability. The transportation system that we study integrates traditional bus transportation and on-demand services. Demand-responsive lines provide a classical, scheduled, transportation service among a...

This paper presents a novel method of identifying and recognizing license plates, required by an automatic vehicle identification system. The main challenge was the isolation of the car’s license plate, from the digital image acquired by the video system, under different illumination conditions and various angles. Thus, we have established the required preprocessing operations leading to succes...

BACKGROUND Compulsory drug detention is the most frequent way to control drug use in China; however, it has often been criticized. This qualitative study aimed to investigate abstinence self-efficacy and its sources of drug users in a compulsory male drug detention center in Shanghai, China, and the attitudes of the drug users to this form of rehabilitation. METHODS Thirty-six participants we...

BACKGROUND The heads of the Global Fund and the GAVI Alliance have recently promoted the idea of an international tiered pricing framework for medicines, despite objections from civil society groups who fear that this would reduce the leeway for compulsory licenses and generic competition. This paper explores the extent to which an international tiered pricing framework and the present leeway f...