OBJECTIVE To evaluate an innovative invitation designed to facilitate informed choices for undergoing screening for type 2 diabetes. METHODS Four hundred and seventeen people aged 40-69 years (sex: F 53%/M 47%), without known diabetes, recruited from street locations. Participants were randomised to receive one of two hypothetical invitations for screening for type 2 diabetes; one based on Ge...

"The behaviour of the population of the Czech Republic has been changing since 1991. The changes have resulted in a considerable decrease in marriages and births, and a slight fall in mortality rates. The decline in the number of newly-weds and new-born children can be attributed to significant structural changes in society connected with the transformation of the reproductive model establishe...

Jeff Moss took the audience on a behind-the-scenes look at cybersecurity policy and practice, starting from the origins of DEFCON, and continuing on to present day Washington, DC policy-making as ICANN’s chief security officer. Two decades ago, when the first DEFCON was taking shape, part of the goal was to get as many computer security-focused individuals in one place in order to encourage the...

This article first traces the history of unhappy marriages of disparate theoretical perspectives in US feminism. In recent decades, US third-wave authors have arranged their own unhappy marriage in that their major publications reflect an attempt to wed poststructuralism with intersectionality theory. Although the standpoint epistemology of intersectionality theory shares some common ground wit...

“Sex survey ruined our wedding,” screamed the front page of the Sun. The newspaper reported how a “couple had a furious row and called off their wedding after the bride-to-be revealed their sex secrets in a university survey.” This could be a routine example of how the press uses research on sex to sell papers. This case is more interesting, however, because the groom to be was clearly unhappy ...

in the process of revelation, divine message is transmitted from the sublime lord and by the prophet to the people. this heavenly message can be considered from several aspects, including that of invitation as a separate category. the present article deals with the linguistic dimension of invitation in the qur’an, specifically in the context of meccan suras. hence, the structure of invitation l...