The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that 2.2 million deaths occur each year because of diarrheal diseases. Data from WHO show that diarrheal illnesses are a significant cause of mortality in children under five years old in six world regions; however, there are few comparative data on the burden of foodborne diseases, which are primarily diarrheal, among the general population in ...

iii Foreword ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of t...

Climate change is an important social issue and the subject of much research, both to understand the history of the Earth’s changing climate and to foresee what changes to expect in the future. Approximately every five years starting in 1990 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) publishes a set of reports that cover the current state of climate change research, how this research ...

This study sets out to advance our understanding of how re-users are being portrayed in policy documents and in a set of topic reports. Drawing on user innovation theories, implications are discussed for the future innovation scene and its main identified user groups: companies and developers, researchers, journalists and non-governmental organisations. Findings reveal differences between the t...

bronchogenic cyst is a result of abnormal development   of the ventral foregut presents as a discrete mass. most commonly, it is appeared in the middle mediastinum and rarely is seen in adults. we report a 35-year-old woman who was asymptomatic and incidentally was found with a mass in chest radiograph.

This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals on appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory with research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how different types of dependency on the government lead firms to issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk o...

background there are different and controversial reports about zinc deficiency in patients with major thalassemia. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate zinc status in patients with major thalassemia in sistan and baluchistan province, southeastern iran. patients and methods the study was performed in ali asghar hospital, a specialized governmental hospital located in zahedan, iran. ...