Tissue banking (or biobanking), thought by many to be an essential form of medical research, has raised a number of ethical issues that highlight a need to understand the beliefs and values of tissue donors, including the motivations underlying consent or refusal to donate. Data from our qualitative study of the legal, social, and ethical issues surrounding tumor banking in New South Wales, Aus...

How do regimes based on limited access orders respond to socially driven discontent? What are the drivers of contentious politics in a state where authorities assert control over society? This ...

A lexical decision response to an attended printed word can be slowed when the word is accompanied by an unattended word that is semantically related. Does this hold for an unattended word that is not related to the target word but sounds as if it is? The homophone WASTE can be shown to affect the lexical decision response to RUBBISH, but how does the incongruently related homophone WAIST affec...

OBJECTIVE Describing the behaviour of dengue and its vector in Cáqueza, Colombia (1746 masl) by serological, entomological and virological monitoring between March and June 2004. METHODS Two types of study were carried out. One was a cross-sectional study for serologically monitoring the population and taking entomological indicators; participants were selected from the general population by ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the relation between perceived neighbourhood environment, social contact and support, and self efficacy, on the health of older people. DESIGN British cross sectional population survey of people aged 65 and over. PARTICIPANTS 999 people aged 65 plus living at home in Britain. RESULTS Regression modelling showed that high self efficacy had a strong independent ass...