The aim of this paper was to explore the attitudes and associations of smoking among adolescents to highlight the implications for the development of social policy. We report the results of a study based on a series of in-depth focus group discussions among school children. Several themes are identified, providing some indication of the susceptibility factors that can lead to smoking behaviour:...

During the First World War, prisoners of war from countries Quadruple Alliance were distributed among concentration camps throughout Russian Empire. At first, due to country’s unpreparedness receive such a large number captives, their conditions detention unsatisfactory. Neutral organizations come aid. Elsa Brandstrom, sister mercy Swedish Red Cross, is best known. She was daughter envoy Russia...

Analytic results indicate that many heads often can be better than one even when none o f the added heads is as individually compe ten t as the first . We define individual competence (accuracy) in a dichotomous choice situation as the probability Pi of making the 'correct' or 'better' choice.~ Condorcet (1785) shows that if each person has equal competence, and if that competence, pi, is great...

A decision support system (DSS) in medicine is a software designed to assist the medical team in the decision making process; it deals with organizational, diagnostic and therapeu‐ tic problems, using data (e.g. variables of the patient) as inputs to combine with models and algorithms giving advice in form of monitor alerts, color codes, or visual messages; it does not replace the human operato...

A device has two arms with unknown deterministic payoffs, and the aim is to asymptotically identify the best one without spending too much time on the other. The Narendra algorithm offers a stochastic procedure to this end. We show under weak ergodic assumptions on these deterministic payoffs that the procedure eventually chooses the best arm (i.e. with greatest Cesaro limit) with probability o...

OBJECTIVES Recent years have witnessed a progressive increase in defensive medicine (DM) in several Western welfare countries. In Danish primary and secondary care, documentation on the extent of DM is lacking. Before investigating the extent of DM, we wanted to explore how the phenomenon is understood and experienced in the context of general practice in Denmark. The objective of the study was...

Increasingly, a single forensic expert guides the jury through the DNA evidence; in five out of six DNA cases studied in New South Wales, this was the model (Findlay 2008). The presence of DNA evidence predicts convictions. Archival research revealed that juries were 23 times more likely to vote guilty in homicide cases and 33 times more likely to vote guilty in sexual assault cases when DNA ev...

This study aims to collect, present, and analyze the Qur’ān’s talk about guidance of Qur’ān, in Sayyid Quṭb’s al-Ẓilāl. To accomplish them, researcher employed inductive approach by collecting Qur’ānic verses that guidances then locating commentaries author al-Ẓilāl on those verses. It was followed analytical analyzing collected verses, finally deductive concluding issues emerge from examined r...