CONTEXT Concussion legislation has been enacted in all 50 of the United States, aiming to prevent mild traumatic brain injuries and the potential long-term sequelae of these injuries in youth athletics. Sports medicine providers, in addressing this major public health concern, are tasked with adhering to the established standards of medical care while also considering the legal implications. ...

Japanese mine safety legislation was enacted in 1949. Improvements in safety and production in the mining industry have been achieved to a large extent under this legislation. However, because of the prescriptive legislation style of mine safety regulations, the degree of safety achieved has not been evaluated from a system performance point of view. Articles of the coalmine safety regulations ...

In this paper, we prove some coupled fixed point theorems for Ocompatible mappings in partially ordered generalized metric spaces under certain conditions to extend and complement the recent fixed point theorems due to Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham [Nonlinear Anal. TMA 65 (2006) 1379 1393] and Berinde [Nonlinear Anal. TMA 74 (2011) 7347-7355]. We give some examples to illustrate our results. An ap...

Gil Sánchez Muñoz, de familia noble Teruel, canónigo paborde Valencia, tío su homónimo que posteriormente será el papa Clemente VIII, embajador Gregorio XI, se encontraba en Roma momento la muerte del pontífice y controvertido cónclave salió elegido Urbano VI (abril 1378), con quien inicialmente mantuvo una muy estrecha relación. Sin embargo, ya septiembre 1379 las declaraciones ante Pedro IV, ...

Studies have indicated that social stigma related to podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis) has a major impact on the psychosocial wellbeing of patients. However, little effort has been made so far to quantify the level of both felt and enacted stigma in a range of domains of life. We used a recently developed podoconiosis stigma assessment scale to measure levels of stigma as recall...