BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Transplant "tourism" typically refers to the practice of traveling outside the country of residence to obtain organ transplantation. This study describes the characteristics and outcomes of 33 kidney transplant recipients who traveled abroad for transplant and returned to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for follow-up. DESIGN, SETTINGS, PARTICIPANTS, & ME...

one of the purposes of ecotourism is to relax and aspirate the natural energy. sacred and energetic sites are the locations for experiencing the relaxation. since 2005 the ecotourism for aspirating the natural energy or spiritual ecotourism has been developed in iran. there are some places in iran which have a kind of energy as subtle energy for increasing personal health and awareness. these p...

hy a new edition of The Nature of the Judicial Process? Presumably because in the world of law, Benjamin Cardozo still rocks, and his opinions and writings still send worthwhile messages as we near the 100th anniversary of his election to the bench. All law students and many academics continue to wrestle with a number of his common law opinions. Just this year Professor Lawrence Cunningham devo...

guilan province is located in north of iran. it plays an important natural, economic and strategic role in iranian history due to its geographical location between the caspian sea and the alborz mountain. this particular characteristic of guilan has made it one of the most important political centers in its history and in the history of its struggles against the central government of iran. iran...

In many distributed systems applications deployed on the worldwide scale, it is latency, rather than bandwidth, that is the primary determinant of performance. This paper describes Ambassadors, a communication technique using mobile Java objects within an RPC/RMI-like communication structure. Ambassadors minimise the aggregate latency of sequences of inter-dependent remote operations by migrati...

INTRODUCTION One in five college students report tobacco use, thus universities are making strides to reduce tobacco use by adopting smoke- or tobacco-free policies. PURPOSE Describe an innovative ambassador program to increase adherence with a tobacco-free campus policy. METHODS The Tobacco-Free Take Action! (TFTA!) Ambassador program was created to form an environment of compliance. Hot s...

BACKGROUND Cancer screening uptake is known to be low among South Asian residents of Ontario. The objective of this pilot study was to determine if lay health educators embedded within the practices of primary care providers could improve willingness to screen and cancer screening uptake for South Asian patients taking a quality improvement approach. MATERIALS AND METHODS Participating physic...