The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) healthcare system is preparing for an increase in the number of veteran patients caused by the drawdown of troops from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), many of whom suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As such, it is imperative that local communities also prepare for their return. This editorial discuss...

When freedom from Communism largely eliminated overt government censorship of newspapers, other political and business pressures appeared. Consequently, Southeastern European newspaper publishers faced threats to financial viability and editorial integrity. The editor-in-chief of one newspaper in the former Yugoslavian republic of Slovenia claims to have found freedom from political and adverti...

cellular and molecular anesthesia: from bench to bedside in the current practice of anesthesia, each day, anesthesiologists deal with a great work: they use the cellular mechanisms of drug molecules to induce their desired effects for induction and maintenance of anesthesia to achieve appropriate tolerance of surgery and its pain, modulation of stress response, sedation needed for performing a ...

A. Authorship and Contributorship 1. Byline Authors 2. Contributors Listed in Acknowledgements B. Editorship 1. The Role of the Editor 2. Editorial Freedom C. Peer Review D. Conflicts of Interest 1. Potential Conflicts of Interest Related to Individual Authors' Commitments 2. Potential Conflicts of Interest Related to Project Support 3. Potential Conflicts of Interest Related to Commitments of ...

This essay examines the Swedish Freedom Front, created in 1989 by libertarians from editorial committee of Nyliberalen magazine. It argues that its emphasis on cultural, sexual, religious and political freedoms, libertarianism contained a different ideological repertoire neoliberalism. compares construction canon translated neoconservative neoliberal texts with popular vernacular register youth...

background: this paper contributes to further exploration of inequity in access to health research capacity development by examining the representation of different nations in international public health journals.  it also aims to examine the degree of diversity that exists in these journals. methods: this study is a descriptive survey. it was done with objective sampling on 37 isi health journ...

the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

this paper examines the relationships between language and ideology and how ideology is constructed and presented via different language choices in english editorials published in different socio-cultural contexts. van dijk’s (2000a) ideological square in terms of representation of the self and other was applied to the editorials. through a comparative analysis of iranian, turkish and saudi ara...

This editorial presents the special issue on challenges of academic freedom in Europe, predominantly Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The volume provides a novel empirical stream research, urging scholars to face emerging discourse problems contemporary higher education systems that were largely overlooked analyses dominated by West-oriented global neoliberalism following collapse USSR. Acknow...

D the invaluable contribution of marketing folks (e.g., making markets work), they fail to enjoy the same freedom of speech as others. This fact is particularly egregious because unlike other groups that can use threats, force, or coercion, marketing folks rely only on speech. Although the U.S. Constitution never mentions commercial speech, the courts invented the concept to censor marketing fo...