The objective of this article is to describe the process of approval of the Italian smoking ban, enacted in 2005. The method is to conduct a review of proposed and approved legislation 2000- 2005, and of articles published in Italian newspapers, 1998-2008. Enabling factors in the process were: the leadership of two consecutive Health Ministers, both physicians, who introduced the bill four time...

Breastfeeding is the normal and safest way to nurture an infant, and prolonged exclusive breastfeeding duration to 6 months will yield the greatest gains in optimum infant development. Despite this knowledge fewer than 35% of infants worldwide are exclusively breastfed during the first 4 months of life. With the advent of the Internet has been the development of many varied e-Health interventio...

This study aims to characterize the coverage of research on diabetes mellitus by Japanese newspapers. Newspaper articles with the key words diabetes mellitus, diabetes disease, or blood sugar in the headline were selected from four major Japanese newspapers for the period 1988-2007 using the ELNET database and coded by two researchers. Of 152 newspaper articles examined, 92 (60.5%) were based o...

objective: lack of scientific writing skills is one major problem encountered for publication of research results of iranian scientists in accredited journals. as the result, many research projects or dissertation findings remain unpublished. this study aimed to assess the quality of writing of the “results” section of some original articles published in iranian farsi and international english ...

BACKGROUND With its increase in participation rate and complex stunts and gymnastic-like maneuvers, cheerleading injuries are on the rise. OBJECTIVE A structured narrative review of the literature was performed to discover the status of the literature on a growing yet under recognized sport. Cheerleading injuries are described in terms of distribution, etiology, and prevention. METHODS A li...

Visions of the future are omnipresent in current debates about digital transformation. This introductory article and full special issue concerned with function, power, performativity visions how they relate to making governing technology. Revisiting existing concepts, we particularly discuss advance concept sociotechnical imaginaries. In difference ephemeral partisan ideas, imaginaries collecti...

Correspondence to: Dr Eva Lovrić, Department of Pathology and Cytology, Čakovec County Hospital, Ivana Gorana Kovačića 2E, Čakovec 40000, Croatia. Fax: +385-1379-7244 E-mail: [email protected] Received: 19 September 2009 Revised: 27 November 2009 Accepted: 25 December 2009 Published online: 22 February 2010 Letters to the Editor Asian Journal of Andrology (2010) 12: 451–452 © 2010 AJA, SIMM ...

This paper is concerned with mixed monotone mappings in partially ordered cone metric spaces. We establish several fixed point theorems, which generalize and complement some known results. Especially, even in a partially ordered metric space, our main results are generalizations of the fixed point theorems due to Bhaskar and Lakshmikantham [T. Grana Bhaskar, V. Lakshmikantham, Fixed point theor...