Background and Objective: Dengue fever has become a major public health problem in many world regions due to increased trade, travel, and problems controlling Aedes vectors. This policy brief aims to review, analyze, and present evidence-based policies for dengue prevention and control. Methods: The present research is a compilation of a policy brief in Iran, carried out in 3 stages according ...

Emergency surgeon: “ last of the mohicans” 2014-2016 editorial policy WSESWJES: position papers, guidelines, courses, books and original research; from WJES impact factor to WSES congress impact factor Fausto Catena, Frederick Moore, Luca Ansaloni, Ari Leppäniemi, Massimo Sartelli, Andrew B Peitzmann, Walt Biffl, Federico Coccolini, Salomone Di Saverio, Belinda De Simone, Michele Pisano and Ern...

EDITOR: Mark Abramowicz, M.D. DEPUTY EDITOR: Gianna Zuccotti, M.D., M.P.H., Weill Medical College of Cornell University CONSULTING EDITOR: Martin A. Rizack, M.D., Ph.D., Rockefeller University CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Philip D. Hansten, Pharm.D., University of Washington ADVISORY BOARD: Jules Hirsch, M.D., Rockefeller University; James D. Kenney, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine; Gerald L. ...

Research and ethics are inseparable. Based on abhorrent research abuses under the cloak of scientific enquiry, development of the process for the ethical overview of research on/with humans was undertaken. By the end of the twentieth century, sufficient and extensive local and international principles, guidelines, legislations, and treaties about research on humans were in place, with all human...

Over the past five decades, dramatic demographic and socio-economic changes have taken place in East Southeast Asian countries, with important implications for family its future. Still, little is known about typical configurations of state support families these countries. We examine governments’ strategies supporting reducing cost children. Employing hierarchical cluster analysis, we uncover f...

Streaming content will account for 91% of all global consumer Internet traffic by 2013. There is an increasing demand for video streams with high perceptual quality. The capability of present day Internet links in delivering high perceptual quality streaming services, however, is not completely understood. Link level degradations caused by intra-domain routing policies and inter-ISP peering pol...

In a recent editorial in Biostatistics, Peng (2009) introduced a system for making data and computer code from papers in the journal publicly available so that other researchers can reproduce the statistical analyses in the paper. The editors explain in a short accompanying note (Diggle and Zeger, 2009) that ‘we wish to encourage the practice of making research published in the journal reproduc...