Readers may have noticed the presence of a March issue of Neurology® Genetics that added to the customary bimonthly publication schedule. The March issue is a supplement focused on research presented by the International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC). Genetics of stroke is paradigmatic for the challenges of analyzing polygenic risk in highly complex disease phenotypes with significant envir...

This study was conducted in metalwork and woodwork industries in Jeddah Industrial Estate. The purpose of this study was to assess the magnitude of industrial noise exposure and to propose remedial actions. Noise was measured at different times of a day in 28 randomly selected factories and workshops. Results indicated that noise levels varied according to the type and size of a factory, and th...

Entrepreneurship education (EPE) plays a vital role to enhance employment creation and reduce poverty. Marketing audit is a main tool for evaluating and improving the marketing performance in a manufacturing or service sector. Despite the vast amount of literature which emphasizes entrepreneurship education, no empirical studies address the marketing audit model for EPE in the higher education ...

Raw material inventory is a major element of the working capital of many organizations. Hence its proper control is crucial for the profitability of the organization and development of surrounding communities. The sudden unavailability of raw material inventory for production can be a great operational disturbance which results in delivery delays, customer dissatisfaction and loss of market sha...

value added is a criterion for evaluating the performance of economic units. statistics related to various economic indicators of industrial workshops located in iranian provinces with their value added are annually obtained by statistical centre of iran via “industrial workshops survey” program. this study is going to find the most important factors affecting the value added of the workshops, ...

The basic training in liver surgery on isolated perfused livers used at the workshop in the First Surgical Course of the Alps--Adriatic Hepatobiliary School is presented. The methods for the excision, preservation, perfusion and preparation of the liver are described, as is the manner of manufacturing the upper abdomen moulded casts, into which an isolated perfused liver is placed for training....

ECVAM initiated its workshop programme in 1994, to enable it to become well informed about the state of the art of non-animal test development and validation, and about the possible incorporation of alternatives into regulatory requirements for safety testing. Fifty-one such workshops have been held on specific topics, up to 2002. In these workshops, the current status of in vitro tests and the...

Since 2002, social workers and others in New York City have attended Undoing Racism Workshops (URW) designed to encourage participants to advance racial equity in the organizations in which they work. However, little is known about the extent to which participants pursued these goals following the workshop. Drawing on a participatory action model, this study explored the impact of URW by examin...

Family impact (or family burden) is a concept born in the field of mental health that has successfully been exported to the ambit of intellectual disability (ID). However, differences in family impact associated with severe mental health disorders (schizophrenia), to ID or to mental health problems in ID should be expected. Seventy-two adults with intellectual disability clients of the Carmen P...