This paper describes the management of an outbreak of Shigellosis, reported in the national media, in a village school in Staffordshire. The issues encountered by the outbreak team during the management of this incident have re-affirmed the need for public and environmental health departments to work closely with educational bodies to develop clear and consistent action plans for the management...

Keele University and University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Staffordshire, UK David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Box 951740, Los Angeles, CA, USA National Aging Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, Vic, Australia Keele University, Institute of Science and Technology in Medicine, Guy-Hilton Research Centre, Sto...

The objective of this paper is twofold. First, against the background of an existing empirical literature on the duration of trade which has found that international trade is often of strikingly short duration, we aim to establish whether or not EU imports from the rest of the world also are short-lived. Second, since there is at this point no clear commonly accepted theoretical explanation for...

WHEN A PUBLIC benefactor is neither a well-known local or national figure nor the subject of contemporary writings, an eponymous benefaction may be his only memorial. Such is the case of John Addenbrooke, who founded the hospital at Cambridge which bears his name. He spent a third of his short life of thirty-nine years in residence at Catharine Hall (now St. Catharine's College) of which he bec...

This paper examines Koreans’ protests against U.S. beef imports by deconstructing online dynamics of news diffusion using data comprised of widely read blog entries created by Daum blog reporters between May and June 2008. The results indicate that Korean bloggers’ political positions on U.S. beef imports were polarized, which ultimately influenced their network positions and the way news was d...

This empirical research paper focuses on establishing a relationship between external determinants and economic growth of Pakistan economy. Empirical analyses are carried out with time series econometric techniques using data over the period of 1977-2013. The main finding is that external determinants such as foreign remittances, foreign direct investment, and foreign imports matter from a grow...

plants in ancient fictional texts describe the  relation between low world and super worlds and appear in forms including ritual resurrection, human reincarnation in plant and vice versa, identification of human and plant , and etc which  relate human's spirit to supernatural. contemporary persian poets are taking advantage of a new language that is full of mythical concepts for expression...