Background: Thalassemia is a chronic, inherited blood disorder, which in its most severe form, causes life-threatening anemia. Thalassemia patients not only engage with difficulties of blood transfusion and iron chelating therapy but also have some social challenges and health threatening factors. There are some reports on quality of life in thalassemia patients around the world from southeast ...

The concept of communicability is introduced for complex socioeconomic networks. The communicability function expresses how an impact propagates from one place to another in the network. This function is used to define unambiguously the concept of socio-economic community. The concept of temperature in complex socio-economic networks is also introduced as a way of accounting for the external st...

The nutritional status of children in slums of Dhaka is a sensitive indicator of health, economy and the sustainable development of Bangladesh. The research highlights the consequence of anthropometric measurements and nutritional status related other issues are taken of 102 children. The survey with a structured questionnaire was conducted by the researcher during 15th April 2015 to 6th June, ...

The Ama have existed for more than 2000 years in Japan and Korea. They have been diving for seaweed and molluscs. Their traditional way of fishing, with goggles or a mask, but without a wetsuit, is still practised as a result of laws against overfishing. We investigated cardiovascular diving responses, expressed as heart rate (HR) reduction, peripheral vasoconstriction indicated by skin blood f...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore possible differences in health care seeking behaviour among a rural and urban African population. DESIGN A cross sectional design was followed using the infrastructure of the PURE-SA study. Four rural and urban Setswana communities which represented different strata of urbanisation in the North West Province, South Africa, were selected. Structur...

Abstract .This chapter introduces the concept of Sustainable Product-Service System (S.PSS). S.PSS is an offer model providing integrated mix products and services that are together able to fulfil a particular customer/user demand (to deliver “unit satisfaction”), based on innovative interactions between stakeholders value production system (satisfaction system), where ownership product/s and/o...

Abstract As society develops, water resources management (WRM) should evolve in response to the changing public needs. This study examines evolution of Japanese mechanisms since modernization. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with decision makers and researchers, government documents academic papers reviewed. We found that country has developed legislation, financing investments, long-...

User problems with large information spaces multiply in complexity when we enter the digital domain. Virtual information environments can offer 3-D representations, reconfigurations and access to large databases that can overwhelm many users’ abilities to filter and represent. As a result, users frequently experience disorientation in navigating large digital spaces to locate and use informatio...