Tourism is not only a concept of enjoyment or travelling or passing the holidays, but also a development concept and it has now been placed a wider significance among the mass people, government and development planner in Bangladesh. Sylhet has a bright prospect to develop its tourism sectors as its treasures weather it is going to miserable situation in the absence of proper plan and realistic...

BACKGROUND Contrary to the myth that suicides increase around Christmas, multiple studies reveal that suicide rates decrease towards Christmas and return back to normal or even peak in the beginning of the new year. We aimed to replicate this effect for Austria. METHODS The analyses were based on the official suicide statistics 2000-13 using Poission regression and Bayesian changepoint analys...

This article aims to test a proposition widely spread among scholars and journalists according to which holidays would have an impact on electoral turnout. To our knowledge, this possibility has not been investigated in the French case yet. Our data, gathered for the last three presidential elections, strongly support a negative effect of holidays on turnout. Since turnout and left vote are lin...

Background The seasonality of influenza is thought to vary according to environmental factors and human behavior. During winter holidays, potential disease-causing contact and travel deviate from typical patterns. We aim to understand these changes on age-specific and spatial influenza transmission. Methods We characterized the changes to transmission and epidemic trajectories among children ...

The admission rate for asthma at a children's hospital was studied over an 11 year period. Admissions varied unpredictably over periods of a few days, but there was a repeated yearly pattern of peaks and troughs with an interval of several weeks. The short term variation could be attributed to chance effects alone, excluding any important role for short term influences--for example, weather cha...

Child contact is a recognised risk factor for adult pneumococcal disease. Peaks in invasive pneumococcal disease incidence observed during winter holidays may be related to changes in social dynamics. This analysis was conducted to examine adult pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) incidence during school holiday periods. Between September 2008 and 2013, consecutive adults admitted t...

Radiotherapy is a standard treatment for cancer and is used since a long time as a stand-alone therapy or in combination with surgery and systemic therapies including immunotherapy. Its acts through induction of irreversible DNA damage to which tumor cells are more susceptible because of frequent mutations in DNA repair pathways. Fractioned radiotherapy, given as daily low doses during multiple...