Tropical cyclones—variously defined as hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones—regularly impact human populations and periodically produce devastating weather-related natural disasters. The epidemiology of tropical cyclones is fundamentally determined by the physical forces of massive cyclonic systems intersecting with patterns of human behavior. The destructive forces of cyclonic winds, inundating ...

BACKGROUND Medical tourism companies play an important role in promoting transnational medical travel for elective, out-of-pocket medical procedures. Though researchers are paying increasing attention to the global phenomenon of medical tourism, to date websites of medical tourism companies have received limited scrutiny. This article analyzes websites of Canadian medical tourism companies that...

From the beginnings of the World Wide Web, Web site administrators have used dynamically generated HTML pages to provide up-to-date information, e.g., online news, stock quotes, etc. Due to the high resource consumption of dynamic page generation approaches, many sites have switched over to periodical updates of frequently visited pages, e.g., a headline index of an electronic newspaper. Howeve...

Purpose. To compare the quality of health information on the Internet for keywords related to urolithiasis, to assess for difference in information quality across four main Western languages, and to compare the source of sponsorship in these websites. Methods. Health On the Net (HON) Foundation principles were utilised to determine quality information. Fifteen keywords related to urolithiasis w...

background and aim: ring chromosomes are rare cytogenetic abnormalities that occur in less than 10% of hematopoietic malignancies. they are rare in blood disorder. the present review has focused on the ring chromosome associated with oncology malignancies. materials and methods: by reviewing the web-based search for all english scientific peer review articles published, was initiated using medl...

cyberspace and empowerment of muted groups a study of pregnant women referring to the websites related to pregnancy issuesalireza dehghan niri atefe aghaie mohaddese ziachi the purpose of this paper is to study pregnant women’s attendance in cyber space as a muted group. this is a qualitative research which has been done using grounded theory method and interview technique. we interviewed a num...

As the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) becomes more prevalent around the globe, the Internet has changed the way government and citizens interact with each other. The development of E-Government has been increasingly considered as a reflection of a country’s informatization, modernization and democratization. In China, as the Internet users increased rapidly (CNNIC, 2005), the E-...