Advances in Ukraine’s decentralisation reform process since 2014

Advances in thoracoscopy: 100 years since Jacobaeus.

Thoracoscopy provides the physician a window into the pleural space, and enables the biopsy of the parietal pleura under direct visual guidance, chest tube placement and pleurodesis for recurrent pleural effusions or pneumothoraces in selected patients. In this review, we discuss the advances that have been achieved in thoracoscopy since its inception more than a century ago.

Land reform in rural China since the mid-1980s1

Cet article analyse les principaux aspects de la réforme agraire en Chine rurale depuis la moitié des années 80. Il explique le système chinois actuel de responsabilité du ménage en insistant notamment sur ses faiblesses institutionnelles, et expose les hypothèses quant à la nature et à la direction d’une réforme agraire plus poussée avancées par les économistes chinois. L’article analyse en pa...

Milestones celebrating key advances since 1840

Exponential growth in Ebola outbreak since May 14, 2014

C ontrary to general opinion, the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa followed an exponential growth curve starting already in mid-May. The death toll followed an exponential growth curve with almost the same time constant , allowing direct calculation of the mortality of the outbreak. This value remained steady at about 72%, contrary to the estimate of the World Health Organization of slight...

Epidemiological Pattern of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Province of Fars, Iran (Since 2010-2014)

Abstract Introduction: Cutaneous Leishmaniasis is considered as an important health problem in Iran. This disease begins as small papules and then they gradually grow and turn into wounds. Since the epidemiological study of this problem is effective in preventing and controlling it, the current research was conducted on epidemiological pattern of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the province of Fa...