Lee CKF Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, The university of Hong Kong, China Email: [email protected]

Nudges are small, often imperceptible changes to how particular decisions present themselves to individuals that are meant to influence those decisions. In his editorial, ‘Nudging by shaming, shaming by nudging’, Eyal highlights links between nudges and feelings of shame on the part of the ‘chooser’. In this commentary, I suggest two further distinctions between different types of shame-based n...

Global health networks—webs of individuals and organizations linked by a shared concern for a particular condition—have proliferated over the past quarter century. In a recent editorial in this journal, I presented evidence that their effectiveness in addressing four challenges—problem definition, positioning, coalitionbuilding and governance—shapes their ability to influence policy. The editor...

human t-ceil lymphotropic virus, type 1 (htl v-i) is considered to be the causative agent of adult t-cell lymphoma/leukemia and spastic paralysis, and seems to be common in khorasan province. 300 blood samples from mashhadi and 180 from gonbadi blood donors were obtained (all samples from healthy subjects). serological screening was done by passive particje- agglutination test and confirmed by ...

for many religious people there is a problem of doubting various creedal statements contained in their religions. often propositional beliefs are looked upon as a necessary, though not sufficient, condition, for salvation. this causes great anxiety in doubters and raises the question of the importance of belief in religion and in life in general. it is a question that has been neglected in phil...