Author Affiliations: Department of Nutrition & Food Hygiene and the Ministry of Education Key Lab of Hazard Assessment and Control in Special Operational Environment (Ji AL), Department of Occupational & Environmental Health (Cai TJ), School of Public Health, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an 710032, China; School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA (Ji A...

Fires involving a large number of casualties in elderly nursing homes China recent years are described. The fire safety codes and standards for Japan overviewed, comparisons were made specific model buildings. According to the comparative analysis, understanding differences between two countries was possible. In China, protection buildings, such as compartments can meet Japan. But report appara...

BACKGROUND A trip to China provided two nursing educators an opportunity to teach Chinese nurses and, in the process, to discover principles for using an interpreter to translate from English into the students' language. CONCLUSION The authors present 16 tips for use by instructors who teach non-English-speaking learners. The principles apply for all situations of communicating with native sp...

Medicine in Egypt and Mesopotamia then attract the attention of the European scholar. India, China and Arabia come next. Greece and Rome are considered a little later. Then come the early Christian era from 1 A.D. to 500 A.D., the Middle Ages from 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. and lastly the modem era from 1500 A.D. All the periods have got their rituals and ideologies maturing ultimately into the pres...

The UNCCD has been ratified by over 190 countries. It is the attempt by nations, both rich and poor to control the scourge of desertification. The definition of which is “land degradation in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. It is now widely accepted that desertification is not the relentless advance of des...

Linda Olson Keller, MS, BSN, APRN, BC Linda Olson Keller is a Senior Research Scientist in Public Health Nursing Policy and Partnerships at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. For the past 25 years she has focused on population-based community assessment, program planning, and evaluation. Linda’s public health nursing practice includes consultation and research with state and local h...

Abstract: Research in social networks has demonstrated that firms in changing environments will benefit from innovation networks. However, the lack of consensus on what factors and how these factors impact performance impedes further research in this area. In this paper, the concept of an International Innovation Network (IIN) and its performance is clarified. Then, based on reviews of the soci...