Over the last two decades, early childhood education (ECE) has come to top of political agenda in New Zealand and internationally. The interest governments policy-makers ECE b...

Several advances in the filed of organ transplantation in last decades have resulted in significant increase in the number and methods of transplantation. In this article various aspects of organ transplantation including immunosuppressive medications, common skin tumors seen in transplant recipients, possible mechanisms involved in increased incidence of skin tumors and finally preventive meas...

Health, and specifically the cost of health care, is of great concern to public policy makers and to the public. Medical care is something we all want, in large part because medicine has reduced death and disability dramatically over the last several decades. However, there is a significant problem of rising cost, today consuming approximately $2.4 trillion annually in the United States and inc...

Job shop scheduling problem (JSSP), as one of the NP-Hard combinatorial optimization problems, has attracted the attention of many researchers during the last four decades. The overall purpose regarding this problem is to minimize maximum completion time of jobs, known as makespan. This paper addresses an approach to evolving Cellular Learning Automata (CLA) in order to enable it to solve the J...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the changes in the availability of the most important food components of the traditional Mediterranean diet and other food groups in five geographical areas during a 43-year period. DESIGN Ecological study with food availability data obtained from FAO food balance sheets in forty-one countries for the period 1961-1965 and 2000-2004. ...