Findings from the Health Surveys for England indicate that Bangladeshi and Black Caribbean men report higher current smoking rates than other men, while white and Black Caribbean women smoke more frequently than other women. Deprivation explains differences in current smoking rates between Bangladeshi and Black Caribbean, and white English men. The smoking rates of Pakistani men and Black Carib...

Introduction: The overall objective of this study was to design a progressive multilevel model using the Delphi method for selecting a medical tourism destination which includes three levels of decision making: the destination country, then the destination city, and finally, the healthcare center in the selected city. This model can be used as a new area of research for further...

This paper examines one important dimension of the European Union’s (EU) ‘regional’ engagement with the Caribbean: its relations with the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT), with a particular focus on the possibility of furthering the policy goals of greater regional integration and cooperation. It does so in three parts. The first sets out the basis for current EU policy to the OCT which...

Spin-transfer torque (STT) switching demonstrated in submicron sized magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has stimulated considerable interest for developments of STT switched magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM). Remarkable progress in STT switching with MgO MTJs and increasing interest in STTMRAM in semiconductor industry have been witnessed in recent years. This paper will present a review o...

* This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology(2010-0021897). Abstract As the power dissipation has become one of the critical design challenges in a sensor network environment, nonvolatile memories such as STT-MRAM and flash memory will be used in the next generat...

We suggested a method for localization of ischemic lesions from difference integral body surface potential maps (IBSPMs) computed by subtraction of IBSPM without manifestation of ischemia from the IBSPM during ischemia that can be obtained at rest and during the stress test. In this work the possible changes in IBSPMs of healthy subjects with increasing HR were studied. BSPMs were measured duri...

Acropora and Porites corals are important reef builders in the Indo-Pacific and Caribbean. Bacteria associated with mucus produced by Porites spp. and Acropora spp. from Caribbean (Punta Maroma, Mexico) and Indo-Pacific (Hoga and Sampela, Indonesia) reefs were determined. Analysis of pyrosequencing libraries showed that bacterial communities from Caribbean corals were significantly more diverse...

Lampedusa is today best known in relation to migration. The island has confronted one migration crisis after the other for past three decades, resulting extensive media coverage. Whereas Lampedusa, a small central Mediterranean region, an economy mainly based on tourism, its name remains associated with migration, which believed negatively impact island’s image and performance of tourism sector...