As clinical trial research increasingly permeates sub-Saharan Africa, tales of purposeful HIV infection, blood theft, and other harmful outcomes are widely reported by participants and community members. Examining responses to the Microbicide Development Programme 301-a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled microbicide trial-we investigate the ways in which these accounts embed medical r...

One hundred thirteen community dwelling subjects between the ages of 50 and 75 without dementia were recruited. A blind administrator randomly assigned 54 subjects to placebo and 59 to active treatment groups. The active treatment consisted of four months treatment with a complex antioxidant blend. Placebo treatment was an identical gel and bottle administered for four months. Forty-eight activ...

The summer of every even year is considered by the protein structure prediction community as the Olympic Games season, because in addition to a number of continuous benchmarking experiments such as LiveBench, much effort is invested in the blind prediction experiments CASP and CAFASP. Here we report the major advances registered in the field since the last Games of 2000, as measured by the rece...

Building effective Computer-Aided Detection and Diagnosis (CAD) systems involves the combination of running experiments, image markup, security, analysis, evaluation, feature extraction, and feature combination in order to capture and evaluate medical images effectively. This requires the involvement of a large community of experts across several fields. We have created a CAD development system...

امروزه مباحث اخلاق علم و پایبندی به هنجارهای علمی به عنوان مهم­ترین رکن جامعه­پذیری دانشگاهی مورد توجه اندیشمندان و صاحب­نظران قرار گرفته است. با توجه به اهمیت اخلاق و هنجارهای علمی در جامعه دانشگاهی، در این مطالعه به بررسی عوامل مؤثر بر میزان پایبندی به هنجارهای علم پرداخته شده است. این پژوهش از نوع  پیمایش بوده و داده­های تحقیق با استفاده از تکنیک پرسشنامه جمع­آوری گردیده است. جامعه آماری شام...

background: community-based participatory research (cbpr) increasingly is being used to address health issues. few evidence exist to indicate how builds the capacity of communities to function as health promoter and what resources are required to promote successful efforts. this article presents the result of a capacity assessment for preventing drug abuse through cbpr, which working with rathe...

the most common reason for women ceasing breast-feeding were lack of support and appropriate advice. to explore the advice about breast-feeding given by community midwives and compare and contrast their advice in swansea (uk) and shahrekord (iran). data collected through semi-structured interview with a sample of 12 community midwives, 6 from each country. purposive sample was selected as capab...

PURPOSE To identify the causes of blindness and visual impairment among students in integrated schools for the blind in Nepal. METHODS A total of 778 students from all 67 integrated schools for the blind in Nepal were examined using the World Health Organization/Prevention of Blindness Eye Examination Record for Children with Blindness and Low Vision during the study period of 3 years. RESU...