A pseudo cohort study using national cross-sections (2001, 2004, 2007, and 2010) was conducted to examine differences in smoking prevalence under different smoking ban policies such as a complete workplace indoor smoking ban (early or recent implementation) and a partial smoking ban among male public workers and husbands of female nonsmoking public workers. The effectiveness of smoking bans was...

There are two models for the origins and timing of the Bronze Age in Southeast Asia. The first centres on the sites of Ban Chiang and Non Nok Tha in Northeast Thailand. It places the first evidence for bronze technology in about 2000 B.C., and identifies the origin by means of direct contact with specialists of the Seima Turbino metallurgical tradition of Central Eurasia. The second is based on...

Napjainkban egyre nagyobb hangsúlyt kap a társadalmi és ökológiai transzformáció szükségessége, amelyben fontos szerep hárul különböző iparágak szereplőire. 2018-ban egy részvételi backcasting projekt során legnagyobb magyarországi marketingkommunikációs ügynökségben dolgozók arra kaptak felhatalmazást, hogy képzeljék el szakmájuk jövőjét. A olyan szcenárióépítési folyamat, amely elképzelt pozi...

On January 1, 1987, the Board of Trustees of Southwest Washington Hospitals instituted a smoking ban in all of its facilities, including the 17-bed general psychiatry unit. Our study of ward atmosphere, PRN medications, and negative incidents related to that change are reported. We feel the change was introduced successfully with minimal impact on the successful function of our service. Others ...

objective adenoid cystic carcinoma (acc) is a rare malignant tumor originating from the salivary glands. it’s rather bland histological appearance that masks its ultimate biological aggressiveness. evaluation of cell cycle and mitoses have been useful in predicting malignancy in many tumors. ki-67 antigen is a human nuclear antigen that presents during all active phases of cell cycle. the aim o...

UNLABELLED The aim of this paper was to compare nicotine concentration in 28 hospitality premises (HPs) in Florence and Belluno, Italy, where a smoking ban was introduced in 2005, and in 19 HPs in Vienna, Austria, where no anti-smoking law entered into force up to now. Airborne nicotine concentrations were measured in the same HPs in winter 2002 or 2004 (pre-ban measurements) and winter 2007 (p...