This paper points to the congruence between political and social variables and the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in modern China. STDs became a major health problem after the fall of the empire in 1911 and were only reluctantly addressed by a weak nationalist government during the 1930s. During the 1950s and 60s, the communist regime brought STDs under control, but proble...

IntroductIon Interventional radiology (IR) is a clinical specialty providing minimally invasive image‐guided diagnosis and treatment of diseases in various organ systems.[1] Since Charles Dotter performed the first balloon angioplasty on patients with stenosis of the superficial femoral artery in 1964, IR has been applied in numerous aspects of modern medicine.[2] However, the development of IR...

For the design of steel and concrete structures, most modern international design codes allow the use of plastic stressstrain-diagrams for the analysis of the bending resistance of the cross-section in the ultimate limit state. Curiously, in Europe and most other parts of the world, timber structures are still designed for the ultimate limit state with the old, conservative concept of full elas...

Worlds in Transition is a large and ambitious study about contemporary and emerging global trends, set within the wide context of evolution on planet Earth. The central hypothesis of the book is that in the decades after the world wars, we have seen, and are seeing, the unfolding of a radical transition leading towards the emergence of a new stage in human civilization. This new stage is define...

s should be submitted by January 31 , 1999 to: George Bause, M.D., P.O. Box 431 00, Cleveland, OH 44143 U.S.A. (440) 446-0120 (voice), (440) 605-9455 (fax), [email protected] Conference Hotel: Swallow Royal Hotel, College Green, Bristol BS 1 5TA, England. 011-441 17-925-5200 (voice), 011-44-1 17-925-1515 (fax). Registration materials for the meeting will be mailed in February, 1999. Anesthesia His...

Substate conflict is the source tremendous human suffering and financial burden worldwide. Research recently published in Science claims to have uncovered predictable patterns in insurgent and terrorist attacks: like various unrelated physical phenomena, the rate of learning by insurgents (and thus rate of conflict escalation) follows a predictable power law process. Governments afflicted by in...

one of the issues that occur in most wars is captivating the enemy soldiers. international humanitarian law as a branch of contemporary islamic law from many years ago has focused on the treatment with prisoners. present comparative study in jus ad bellum shows that, the four 1949 geneva convention's and the 1977 additional protocols which compared with the islamic rules of international h...