Editoral Department

EDITORAL Achieving a smokefree society

THE HEALTH COMMUNITY has been concerned about the health effects of smoking on smokers for over two decades. With recent reports by the Surgeon General' and the National Academy of Sciences,2 a consensus has emerged that smoking also endangers nonsmokers who breathe secondhand smoke (table 1). Although there are always more details to learn, these reports effectively close the scientific case a...

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EDITORAL : Special Issue : Intelligent Vehicle Navigation ( i VN )

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Guest Editoral: Special Issue on Chinese as a Foreign Language

This introduction paper describes the research trends of Chinese as a second/foreign language along with related studies. We also overview the research papers included in this special issue. Finally, we conclude the findings and offer the suggestions.

Iranian emergency department overcrowding

Today, overcrowding in emergencies has turned out to be one of the biggest problems in health systems around the world. In this case, a short and an accessible solution could not be reached. In fact, several basic reasons play a role in such a problem, and eliminating each of them would require long-term planning. This issue not only has a negative effect on the quality of services presented to...