Abstract In the 1990s, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries (except for Latvia) moved away from tax-based financing of healthcare in favour social health insurance (SHI). This paradigmatic change was domestically driven; World Bank’s recommendations to retain were ignored. Yet, defining institutional set-up emerging SHI systems, CEE did rely on expertise international organisations as wel...

*Okit su Branch, Fruit Tree Research Station, Okitsunakacho, Shimizu-shi, Shizuoka 424-02 **National Research lnstitute of Vegetables , Ornamental Plants and Tea, Ano-cho, Age-gun, Mie 514-23 ***Agricultural Technical Center , National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations, 5-5-1, Higashihachiman, Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254 ****Chugoku National Agricultural Experiment Station , ...

BACKGROUND Deliberate Self-Harm (DSH) is the intentional destruction of healthy body tissue without suicidal intent. DSH behaviours in non-clinical populations vary, and instruments containing a range of behaviours may be more informative than ones with restricted content. The Self-Harm Inventory (SHI) is a widely used measure of DSH in clinical populations (mental and physical health) and cove...

Yoichi KUMADA, Masao NOGAMI, Fida HASAN, Masaaki TERASHIMA and Shigeo KATOH Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Okayama University, 1-1, Tsushimanaka 3, Okayam-shi, Okayama 700-8530, Japan Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, 1-1, Rokkodaicho, Kobe-shi, Hyogo 657-8502, Japan Graduate school of Human Sciences, Kobe College, 4-1, Okadayama, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo 66...

ibn abi- jumhur ahsa’i, a prominent thinker of the shi’ite sage, who was alive until the early era of the safavid dynasty, can be called “the founder” because of his revolution in the form and method as well as in the theological attitude of shi'ite kalam, and since this revolution is fulfilled through illuminative wisdom, he has to be called “the founder of illuminative shi'ite kalam...

Gang Li, Tian-Lei Zheng, Xiao-Ling Chi, Yong-Fen Zhu, Jin-Jun Chen, Liang Xu, Jun-Ping Shi, Xiao-Dong Wang, Wei-Guo Zhao, Christopher D. Byrne, Giovanni Targher, Rafael S. Rios, Ou-Yang Huang, Liang-Jie Tang, Shi-Jin Zhang, Shi Geng, Huan-Ming Xiao, Sui-Dan Rui Ming-Hua Zheng

BACKGROUND Transcriptional feedback loops are central to circadian clock function. However, the role of neural activity and membrane events in molecular rhythms in the fruit fly Drosophila is unclear. To address this question, we expressed a temperature-sensitive, dominant negative allele of the fly homolog of dynamin called shibire(ts1) (shi(ts1)), an active component in membrane vesicle sciss...