We Beatrix, by the grace of God, Queen of the Netherlands, Princess of OranjeNassau, etc., etc. etc. Greetings to all who shall see or hear these presents! Be it known: Whereas We have considered that it is desired to include a ground for exemption from criminal liability for the physician who with due observance of the requirements of due care to be laid down by law terminates a life on reques...

In China, people send greetings by wishing a person 'a long and healthy life'. Our natural state is to be healthy and happy. This includes having a calm mind, a healthy body and emotional resourcefulness. This book reveals the profound, yet simple health maintenance secrets that Chinese medicine has developed over many centuries. These secrets enable you to deal with stress and return to your n...

Intelligent systems should be able to initiate and understand social interactions, which are always brought about by physical actions. Thus, all physical actions need to be interpreted for their social effects. This paper gives an analytical framework that identifies the main challenges in modelling social interactions. Such interpretation is subjective and might lead to misunderstandings betwe...

Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting practices across social class, gender, immigrant background, and geographic location. While greeting practices in the sample are fairly uniform, there are also important differences. Handshaking is predominantly used by respondents with an immigrant backgro...

of the opening juyces to it, it will be the better, then if you apply a Virginia Tobacco leaf to the place, you shall find it an incomparable Remedy'. The two New York documents of 1677 show to a considerable degree the medicines used by practitioners of the day. There can be little doubt that apothecary's supplies were ordered, as in the case of Dr. De Hart, from London. Indeed, if satisfied, ...

Tryck: US-AB 3 I thank my supervisors Mats Brorsson and Vladimir Vlassov for the support and guidance I have received during the course of this thesis. Further I would like to thank my fellow companions and comrades, Ananya Muddukrishna and Geor-gios Varisteas, who share this journey with me. Additional thanks goes to Ingo Sander (KTH) for helping reviewing the licenciate thesis and David Black...

This study aims to determine the climate of Akhlak-nuanced schools at Semen Padang Private High School. How principal's role during face-to-face meeting period is limited. The results showed that: moral school School very pronounced every day starting from process arriving students in morning, program 3 S (Smile, Greetings and Greetings), reading Qur'an before first class hour begins until retu...

The New Investigator Grant Program is being offered again and the application can be found at the end of this newsletter. This is for assistant professors, postdoctoral fellows, residents, and graduate students in the Translational Neuroscience Program. To clarify for our students, the faculty sponsor must have primary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience as t...

A very warm welcome to you all! I am happy to extend warm greetings to all of you as the new Editor-in-Chief. This year marks the 35th anniversary of Epidemiology and Health, the journal of the Korean Society of Epidemiology. The Korean Society of Epidemiology was founded in 1979. In October 2009, on the society’s 30th anniversary, the Korean Journal of Epidemiology was relaunched as an open-ac...

BACKGROUND Widely used models for teaching and assessing communication skills highlight the importance of greeting patients appropriately, but there is little evidence regarding what constitutes an appropriate greeting. METHODS To obtain data on patient expectations for greetings, we asked closed-ended questions about preferences for shaking hands, use of patient names, and use of physician n...