Background & aim: One of the factors of affecting maternal anxiety is a history of fetal death or neonatal death. This anxiety affects fetal and maternal health. By consideration the impact of anxiety on fetal and maternal health and the lack of protective activities in this field, this study was done to determine the impact of adaptation with pregnancy educational package on anxiety and matern...

This DESG Teaching Letter was written by the DESG Executive commitee: Executive commitee: Dr. J.M. BOAVIDA, MD, Lisbon – Portugal (President); Dr. A. BROOKS, MD, Winchester – UK (Vice-President); Dr. I. HARMAN-BOEHM, MD, Sheva – Israel. (Director Educational Strategies); Ms. D. VARAKLA, Athens – Greece (Honorary Secretary); Dr. A. BALDELLI, MD, Rome – Italy (Honorary Treasurer); Dr. R. CHLUP, M...

In this paper we analyse Promises and Threats (P/T) use in persuasion. Starting from a general definition of P/T based on the concepts of speech act and social commitment we focus on Conditional Influencing P/T (CIP/T): those incentive-based P/T used to persuade the addressee, rooted on dependence and power relations. We argue that in CIP/T class the concepts of promise and threat are strictly ...

I’d like to begin my last President’s Message with a word of appreciation to the many I-Sim volunteers who have made my last two years so enjoyable and rewarding. Particular thanks to Steve Chick, Vice-President/President-Elect; Chun-Hung Chen, Treasurer; Shane Henderson, Secretary; to our Council members John Carson, Martha Centeno, Pres White and Enver Yücesan; and to Susan Sanchez, Past Pres...

This article attempts to clarify the meaning of term oppidum used in Silesian documents. Certain aspects urban structure that period have been illuminated by analysing different senses as applied 13th and 14th century chancellery writings. The research was conducted on example Silesia basis available archival sources. They shown underwent semantic changes over two centuries, which reflected a s...

Danish and Swedish are closely related languages that are generally mutually intelligible. Previous research has shown, however, that Danes comprehend more spoken Swedish than vice versa. It has been suggested that this asymmetry is caused by extra-linguistic factors such as literacy, contact with, and attitudes held towards the test language. However, also linguistic factors, such as suprasegm...

-This paper defines the relationship between telecommunications and’ transportation, by expanding on linkages already identified in the literature, by identifying additional relationships, and by putting these relationships into a robust conceptual framework. There are conceptual, physical, analytical, and regulatory parallels between telecommunications and transportation. Telecommunications af...

End of war...Beginning of the investigation... On April 30, 1945, Hitler committed suicide. His body was burnt in a bomb crater in the garden of the Chancellery next to a hospital and amongst other corpses which were buried afterwards. Despite the investigation of British officer Trevor-Roper and despite being approached diplomatically, the Russians did not answer any questions concerning this ...