The Editor's Diary: 7/7–21/7

Editors note

EDITOR’S NOTE Geopersia is published biannually by the College of Science, University of Tehran, Iran. The College of Science published “Journal of Science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. It was then decided that the College’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of Geopersia was launched. Geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original...

The Whereabouts Diary

The user profile is one of the main context-information in a wide range of pervasive computing applications. Modern handheld devices provided with localization capabilities could automatically create a diary of user’s whereabouts and use that information as a surrogate (or a complement) of the user profile. The places we go, in fact, reveal also something about us, for example, two persons can ...

The Nocturia Impact Diary: a self-reported impact measure to complement the voiding diary.

BACKGROUND Nocturia is a chronic, fluctuating disease that disrupts sleep and has a wide-ranging impact on quality of life. Valid tools to measure the patient-reported impact of nocturia are essential for evaluating the value of treatment, but the available tools are suboptimal. OBJECTIVES This study reports the development and validation of the Nocturia Impact Diary-an augmented form of the ...

Letters to the Editors.

Letters to the Editors

Trends in fat consumption I read the paper ‘Trends in individual fat consumption in the UK 1900-1985’ by A. M. Stephen and G. M. Sieber (1994) with interest. This is an important subject for anyone concerned with possible links between fat consumption and chronic disease, especially in view of the intense educative activity about dietary fats that is now being encouraged. Try as I may, I cannot...