BACKGROUND Republic of Azerbaijan is considered as an area with high prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. Uncontrolled travelling of Azerbaijanis people to Iran is the issue that needs to be considered as an important issue. METHODS This study was conducted on 32 patients with tuberculosis from Baku-Nakhchivan and 48 patients from Iran during 2012 to 2014. Colonies of Mycobacteriu...

This study examines how novel words originate in and disperse through online communities. It asks whether larger numbers of people or closer social ties are better environments to foster the adoption of new words. The data stem from Reddit, a large sample of web-mediated, asynchronous conversations. Reddit communities are divided by size in this study: larger communities are based on discussing...

What types of ties lead states towards decreased dyadic conflict? There are two implicit points of debate in the literature: first, whether it is states’ ties to the system leader or instead their ties to each other that are important in shaping conflict propensities; and second, whether it is economic or security ties that are paramount. Power transition theory suggests that states’ ties to th...

there are two ground approaches for explaining the type of administrative reforms in every country. the first approach searches creating factors of administrative reforms inside every country. but the second approach assigns diffusion of administrative reforms ties in countries to the international and global factors. relying on the second theoretical framework, this qualitative research tries ...

Based on more than 14 months' ethnographic research in China, this article brings in culture and symbolic interactionism to understand the social embeddedness of economic transactions. First, an analytic frame linking tie strengths to defining principles, relational properties, and interactions is constructed and applied to changes in life insurance transactions in China. The data suggest that ...

This article examines the link between finding out about cultural activities on the Web and finding out through other people. Using data from interviews with Torontonians, we show that people first obtain cultural information from interpersonal ties or other offline sources and only then turn to the Web to amplify this information. The decisions about what information to seek from which media c...

OBJECTIVE To assess level of contamination of neckwear worn by gynaecologists and obstetricians during routine working week. DESIGN Multicentre randomised double blind crossover trial. Participants wore the same conventional ties for three days in one week and bow ties for the same period in second week. SETTING Two teaching and three district general hospitals in the midlands, Wales, and n...