OBJECTIVE In this commentary I respond to points raised in the commentary by Mushak [Ad hoc and fast forward: the science and control of hormesis growth and development. Environ Health Perspect 117:1333-1338 (2009)], which principally concerns studies by me and my colleagues concerning the frequency of hormesis in toxicology. DISCUSSION In this commentary I demonstrate that Mushak's analysis ...

Immunization remains one of the most important and cost-effective public health interventions to reduce child mortality and morbidity. Globally, it is estimated to avert between 2 and 3 million deaths each year. In Ethiopia, immunization coverage rates stagnated and remained very low for many years. Thus, this study was aimed to assess child immunization coverage and factors associated with ful...

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of Islamic-based Achievement Motivation Training (AMT) in increasing motivation memorize Quran. used a quantitative pre-experimental method with one group pretest-posttest design. The participants were 8 teenage boys aged 11-17 years, who students at Pondok Tahfizh Quran Hisbah Al-Mizan Pontianak selected through random sampling. Data collection scal...

This paper describes a communication practice called "online commentary" that is in widespread use in primary care in the USA. Online commentary is talk by a clinician that describes what he or she is finding in the course of the physical examination of the patient. The paper reviews the primary features of online commentary, with a special focus on its role in forecasting the likely results of...

This paper conceptualizes a type of physician communication, termed `online commentary'. Online commentary is talk that describes what the physician is seeing, feeling or hearing during physical examination of the patient. Some dimensions of online commentary are described, and its functions in routine and acute medical consultations are distinguished. Using a case study method, the paper focus...

Major commentaries on various books of the Bible have been appearing at a dizzying pace in recent years. I have also been struck by the increasing length of such commentaries. W. D. Davies and Dale Allison are writing a three-volume commentary on Matthew for the ICC series. John Nolland composed a three-volume commentary on Luke (WBC). Raymond Brown’s work on the epistles of John (AB) is 812 pa...

the challenge of mobilizing knowledge to improve patient care, population health and ensure effective use of resources is an enduring one in healthcare systems across the world. this commentary reflects on an earlier paper by ferlie and colleagues that proposes the resource-based view (rbv) of the firm as a useful theoretical lens through which to study knowledge mobilization in healthcare. spe...

muhammad ibn jarir al-tabari (839-923) was a moslem historian and religious scholar whose annals are the most important source for the early history of islam. he is also a renowned author of a monumental commentary on the koran. at tabari wrote history, theology and qur'anic commentary. his legal writings were published first and then continued to appear throughout his life. next were his ...