The capability to build nuclear weapons is a key national security factor that has a profound influence on the balance of international relations. In addition to longstanding players, regional powers and peripheral countries have sought for ways of acquiring and/or developing them. The authors postulate that to express the capabilities, relative positions, and interrelations of the countries in...

Nutritional assessment is the essential first step in the adequate nutritional care of a patient. Simple bed-side impressions of nutritional status or change with therapy are invariably erroneous (Walesby et al., 1979) and are to be deprecated. Recent surveys (Bollet and Owens, 1973; Bistrian et al., 1976; Hill et al., 1977; Letsou, Connaughton and O'Donnell, 1977; Willicutts, 1977) have shown ...

The methods of bibliometric research of scientific periodicals are studied much better than the properties of periodicals though the latter are the subject of the assessment. Since the properties in most cases are not being evaluated directly, the problem is to identify the intermediate that is DIRECTLY evaluated by a concrete method and to determine, which specific property of a scientific per...

The opinions expressed in this report are those solely of the colloquium participants. are equally amenable to use in large or small scale farming operations and compatible with other agricultural practices and technologies. Concerns associated with the use of Bt include potential for harm to non-target organisms, development of resistance in populations of target insects, and, for engineered c...

  Background: Various decisions have been made on technology application at all levels of the health system in different countries around the world. Health technology assessment is considered as one of the best scientific tools at the service of policy- makers. This study attempts to investigate the current challenges of Iran’s health technology assessment and provide appropriate strategies to ...

Great ideas for clinical research often originate at the bedside when clinicians are forced to make a decision about a patient’s care, but an absence of published evidence complicates the decision-making process. This is typically how gaps in the literature are identified and translated into opportunities for clinical research. This scenario happens on a daily basis, possibly many times per day...

(This protocol includes parts of the manuscript for WHO guidelines and therefore may not be published before the publication of these WHO guidelines; the reference always has to be stated) EUROPEAN COMMISSION HEALTH & CONSUMER PROTECTION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL Directorate C-Public Health and Risk Assessment The content of this report does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Commiss...