BACKGROUND The Government of the Republic of Kenya is in the process of implementing health care reforms. However, poor knowledge about costs of health care services is perceived as a major obstacle towards evidence-based, effective and efficient health care reforms. Against this background, the Ministry of Health of Kenya in cooperation with its development partners conducted a comprehensive c...

Human activity is currently changing our environment rapidly, with predicted temperature increases of 1-5°C over the coming century and increased nitrogen and phosphorus inputs in aquatic ecosystems. In the shallow parts of these ecosystems, submerged aquatic plants enhance water clarity by resource competition with phytoplankton, provide habitat, and serve as a food source for other organisms....

The public profile of the alpaca (Vicugna pacos) increased significantly as it became a more common agricultural species around the world and the focus of more intense modern breeding techniques and of genomic studies. The alpaca is 1 of 7 camelids that together occupy some of the world's most arid ecosystems and which have had large beneficial impacts on the human cultures in these areas. Toda...

The purpose of the article is to analyse semiotics body in visual culture late 20th and early 21st centuries using example fashion photography; find out how has turned from a passive screen for displaying socially culturally significant markers into an active agent shaping trends. research methodology based on combination different approaches describing semantic nuances image modern photography...

Social media is growing rapidly because everyone able to have social such as Instagram. The existence of for teenagers has made it easier them better understand the outside world, interactions between individuals and groups. However, presence led negative behavior towards adolescent lifestyles, making adolescents appear more individualistic, thus immediately triggering a lack awareness desired ...

A comparison of physicians' fees in the Colonial period with those of today should reveal much of interest and value. Numerous daybooks are available establishing the sums paid to the physician in the currency of the time, but obviously direct comparisons cannot be made because of the change in the purchasing value of the units. Consultation with historians, sociologists, and economists has ind...

the Northern Adriatic, has always been widely recognized for the beauty of its nature and mild, Mediterranean climate. It was well populated even in Roman times, although the oldest traces of human life date from as early as Paleolithic. Istria was settled by Croats in the 7th century. Its history abounds with battles and legends, especially from the periods of famine and plague. Due to a speci...

R enal transplantation in Iran dates back to 1967, when the first transplantation was carried out by Dr. Mohammad Sanadizadeh in Shiraz University, then one of the major and most advanced medical universities in Iran. During the next 12 years, the period prior to Islamic revolution, sporadic cases were transplanted, but despite the high expenses and cultural and language barrier, most of the 11...

“Let’s Diagnose COPD Early!” was the title of an editorial written by the late great Doctor Tom Petty over 35 years ago. Towards the end of his editorial, promoting the widespread use of office spirometry to detect COPD, he stated, “It must be honestly admitted that studies to establish the value of early or so-called preventive therapy are yet to be established.” The U.S. National Heart Lung a...

Recently, I was leaked a staff training CD-ROM from British American Tobacco (Australia). Five senior executives sat in front of the camera blubbing about the inexorable fall in smoking rates and how, as the plug had been pulled, this could only get worse. As the remaining water drained from the pool, they tried to inspire their staff by talking up hopes of snatching profit from brands that smo...