EU agencies have become important regulatory venues. Initially established to provide expert advice, many gained far-reaching decision-making and enforcement powers. This has attracted considerable attention from stakeholders, but the extent of their influence on agency conduct remained a black box. We employ novel dataset 203 consultations (2007–2017) containing 26,468 attempts stakeholders ch...

To address the problem of fathers' absence from children's lives and the difficulty of paternal engagement, especially among lower income families, government agencies have given increasing attention to funding father involvement interventions. Few of these interventions have yielded promising results. Father involvement research that focuses on the couple/coparenting relationship offers a path...

As a senior healthcare executive and fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE), I am often asked by junior colleagues how I became a leader. Since many women administrators still encounter difficulty in breaking through the glass ceiling to the executive suite, gender equity and personal values are frequently central to my narrative. Although more recently characterized as ...

The production and proper utilization of medicinal plants in natural habitats need to review and identify the natural conditions and climate of the habitat of these plants and separating them from harmful and poisonous plants. The current study was aimed to introduce and determine the distribution of medicinal plants from Lamiaceae family in Mazandaran province as well as the introduction of na...

One day in 1991, I took a dusty, bumpy jeep ride between two multi-ethnic townships in the hilly border country between Sichuan and Yunnan. With me in the jeep was an official of the Nationalities Commission, the Chinese government agency of the in charge of minority affairs. Since we had just been visiting an area where four different ethnic groups lived together, he struck up a conversation a...

BACKGROUND Traditional media and the internet are crucial sources of health information. Media can significantly shape public opinion, knowledge and understanding of emerging and endemic health threats. As digital communication rapidly progresses, local access and dissemination of health information contribute significantly to global disease detection and reporting. METHODS Health event repor...