the article by brenna and spandonaro on interregional mobility for acute hospital care in italy raises important issues concerning social and territorial equity in a healthcare system. based on regions and private providers’ strategic behavior, the hypothesis adopted to explain patient cross-border mobility (cbm), demonstrated by statistical analysis, may be further explored using qualitative m...

A b s t r a c t In this paper we discuss the results of experiments which use a context, essentially an ordered set of lexical items, as the seed from which to build a network representing statistically important relationships among lexical items in some corpus. A metric is then applied to the nodes in the network in order to discover those pairs of items related by high indices of similarity. ...

background: the effects of estrogene on central nervous system are still controversial. objective: we aimed to investigate the effects of raloxifene on the antioxidant enzyme [superoxide dismutase (sod) and catalase (cat)] activities and malondialdehyde (mda) levels in brain homogenates of ovariectomized female rats and its effect on cognitive process of learning. materials and methods: female ...

AB-e-Boshghabi with scientific name of Centella asiatica is among those plants that has valid distribution only in the protection zone of Anzali lagoon. This herb has some active constituents, which categorizes it as a medicinal plant. This herb has been used as an anticancer, antifertility agent, antipsoriatic, an agent for wound healing, etc. This study was designed to identify collection, di...