BACKGROUND After implementation of the PREDICA annual chest X-ray (CXR) screening program in smokers in the general practice setting of Varese-Italy a significant reduction in lung cancer-specific mortality (18 %) was observed. The objective of this study covering July 1997 through December 2006 was to estimate the cost-effectiveness of this intervention. METHODS We examined detailed informat...

This article identifies the upheaval of many people’s experience time during COVID-19 pandemic as part a larger phenomenon 24/7 temporality that can be seen to contribute environmental destruction and social fragmentation typical disaster capitalism. It then proposes liturgical an alternative temporality, framing it fitting context for cultivation solidarity between human beings natural world. ...

Jeffrey Goldberg's comments in "The Color of Suspicion"' are comprehensive, factual, and an indictment of the racist practice of profiling. I found it fascinating and revealing to read that racial profiling had its genesis in practices by the Federal Bureau of Investigation's behavioral science unit and the Drug Enforcement Administration's encouragement of state officials to profile drug couri...

introduction: nursing is among most stressful jobs and a common syndrome is job burnout in nurses caused by stress. enhancing coping capacity is an effective factor in dealing with stresses. thus it seems significant to study the effect of sense of humour on job burnout and nurses’ resiliency. objective: the present study was conducted to determie the relationship between severity of nurses’ bu...

one of the major aspects of quality of life is place-attachment which is affected by human-nature interactions. looking at such a critical issue in human settlements requires the study of the relationship between architecture and nature. it is a critical issue in the contemporary literature of built environment and is discussed in specific frameworks such as phenomenology and environmental psyc...

since, in the same vein as public spaces, urban green spaces play a significant role in establishing social interactions in the iranian cities, security concerns need to be taken more seriously in such places than other social environments, the insufficiency of which could diminish their functional capacity. this could in turn lead to a source of subsequent difficulties in urban spaces. therefo...

Classic complexity theory indicates that a large number of natural combinatorial problems are inherently hard to solve algorithmically (in technical terms, they are NP-hard and, thus, it is not expected that they admit a polynomial time algorithm). The parameterization idea tries to cope with this rather discouraging fact by asking whether it is possible to to design algorithms where the non-po...