Although access (preferably free) to termination of pregnancy (TOP) is an integral component of women’s reproductive health and rights, it is surely more desirable to avoid unwanted pregnancies. According to Benagiano and Pera, the best ways to reduce the need for abortion are education and contraception. Putting aside the problems of education, in many developing countries reproductive health ...

Dual protection against STIs and unintended pregnancy is a health issue of particular importance in South Africa, not only because of very high rates of STIs including HIV, but also because of the large proportion of women who use long-acting effective hormonal contraceptive methods and therefore have little incentive for using barrier methods for contraceptive purposes. The concomitantly high ...

POSTOPERATIVE paraplegia resulting from spinal cord ischemia is a devastating complication of thoracic aneurysm (TA) or thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) surgery. Permanent neurologic deficits are a major cause of morbidity and may shorten long-term survival. Factors that are associated with the development of paraplegia are previous aortic surgery, preoperative renal function, age, aorti...

A number of problems of dynamic deformation in the presence of moving contact surfaces are considered. A grid characteristic method using a two-dimensional irregular triangular grid and a hybrid scheme with 1-2 order of approximation is adapted. An algorithm for calculating the force of friction and the force of static friction is proposed. The numerical solution to wheel rolling and shear wave...

M anuscripts, like embryos and tumors, develop in stages (Table I), and dermatology authors increasingly expose this development to examination by self-archiving—that is, by posting manuscripts or published papers on personal Web sites and in public repositories (Table II) before, simultaneous with, or after publication in academic journals. When authors publish in closed-access traditional jou...

Sažetak – Endokrina orbitopatija ili oftalmopatija je organospecifično, genetski uslovljeno, autoimuno oboljenje, nastalo kao posledica poremećaja funkcije štitne žlezde. Najčešći je uzrok unilateralne ili bilateralne proptoze odraslih. U najvećem broju slučajeva, javlja se kod žena starosti od 30 do 50 godina. Ultrazvučna dijagnostika je primarna za orbitalnu patologiju zbog neškodljivosti, ne...

 Anderson, J. G. & Taylor, A. F. (2011). Effects of Healing Touch in Clinical Practice: A Systematic Review of Randomized Clinical Trials. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 29(3): 221-228. Hands-on healing and energy-based interventions have been found in cultures throughout history around the world. These complementary therapies, rooted in ancient Eastern healing practices, are becoming mainstream...

In 2008, the type of document “proceedings paper” (PP) was assigned in the WoS database to journal articles which were initially presented at a conference and later adapted for publication in a journal. Since the use of two different labels (“article” and “proceedings paper”) might lead to infer differences in their relevance and/or quality, this paper presents a comparative study of standard j...

This paper presents a novel approach for text classification on biomedical literature, involving the use of information extracted from related web resources. Our method creates a representation of an article based on information extracted from public online databases, that is afterwards used by traditional statistical text classification algorithms. We validated this approach by implementing th...