The importance of demonstrating value for money in terms of academic research beyond the walls of institutions grows stronger as demonstrated by the inclusion of impact assessment in the 2014 REF (Research Excellence Framework) exercise for UK HEIs. To understand if such focus is influencing the library and information science (LIS) discipline, this paper reports a critical examination of impac...

varieties of Voluntary Hospitals : General Hospitals, Special Hospitals and Cottage Hospitals, so-called. In the past, the medical staff of a Voluntary Hospital has given its services either entirely gratuitously or, in a few instances, each member of the staff has received a small honorarium for out-of-pocket expenses. It has always been understood, however, by the honorary medical staff of a ...

BACKGROUND Setting Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals for health has largely focused on defining specific targets of mortality and morbidity reduction over given time periods. Yet, less attention has been devoted to setting targets for the systemic determinants of health delivery, such as access and financial risk protection (FRP)-prevention of medical impoverishment...

A bank is an intermediate financial institution authorized to take deposits, lend money, and issue promissory notes or banknotes. In the present day, every adult must have at least one account. Additionally, services range from regular hajj savings large-scale loans. Students, of bank’s customers, usually utilize confined preserve pocket money received their parents ordinary transactions like t...

OBJECTIVE To compare the relative importance on adolescent smoking of the influence from parental smoking and peer smoking. METHOD National New Zealand crosssectional survey of 14,936 female and 14,349 male Year 10 students (aged 14 and 15 years) who answered an anonymous self-administered questionnaire in November 2002. RESULTS Adolescents with both parents smoking had the highest smoking ...

BACKGROUND Out-of-home (OH) eating in developed countries is associated with suboptimal dietary intakes, but evidence is scarce on the situation in developing countries. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the nutritional contribution of OH eating and related socioeconomic determinants in Vietnamese adolescents. DESIGN A 24-h recall was used to collect food intake data in...