The 70th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) took place in Washington, DC, USA, from November 10–15, 2006. More than 13,000 attendees, a record number, which included over 9500 scientists, registered for the meeting. Approximately 2000 abstracts were presented, along with a number of state-ofthe-art lectures and topical symposia. While it is not feasible to r...

khorasan province in iran with a diverse climatic conditions has accommodated a wide range of plant communities particularly herbs, spices and medicinal plants. among these saffron (crocus sativus l.), has been the most cultivated plant for thousands of years. these crop deliver unique interests and applications. the novel use of saffron in recent years in cancer cure have been promenaded and s...

BACKGROUND The 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion coincided with a preponderance of research, worldwide, on the social determinants of health and health inequities. Despite the establishment of a 'health inequities knowledge base', the precise roles for municipal governments in reducing health inequities at the local level remain poorly defined. The objective of this study was to monitor ...

This paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. The abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to November 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the Compleat Lexical Tutor. The output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...

For User Manual A guide to all aspects of Sociological Abstracts including content, searching, and viewing Sociological Abstracts offers access to the international literature. Indico User Guide, Release 1.9.5.