Public health efforts to promote tobacco control are not performed within a vacuum. They are subject to interpretation and misinterpretation by consumers and policymakers based largely upon the initial framing of the issues. This paper notes how the tobacco industry has established a particular frame that it is the protector of individual rights and that the public health community is trying to...

Kautilya's Arthasastra (4th century B.C.) is one of the most influential treatise in Political Science in the Indian Civilization. This work deals with virtually all aspects of governance in a monarchical state. In the Indian philosophy, the objective of every being is the pursuit of dharma. State, a human artifact, is constituted to get the human race out of the state of nature. State enables ...

Development of an effective radio protector to minimise radiation-inflicted damages have largely failed owing to inherent toxicity of most of the agents examined so far. This study is centred towards delivering protection to lethally irradiated mice by pre-administration of a safe formulation G-003M (combination of podophyllotoxin and rutin) majorly through regulation of inflammatory and cell d...

The development of mobile communication technology and ubiquitous computing paradigm and the emergence of m-healthcare, m-business and m-education services have raised the urgency of dealing with personal information privacy threats. In this paper, we discuss the requirements, functionalities and roles needed to support privacy protection in context aware mobile information systems.

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is one of the most common reasons for referral to a physician. reflux-associated extraesophageal symptoms occur in every third patient with GERD. Diagnostic difficulties and prescription effective treatment rapid resolve GERD are still important issues when managing these patients. This paper summarizes data on prevalence pattern symptoms, as well efficacy...

There are numerous well-documented measurement methods available to evaluate hearing protector attenuation, however, some are flawed or difficult to implement and some can and have been misused with the erroneous results fostering misleading conclusions. This paper will examine the three most robust methods including the “gold standard” in hearing protector attenuation measurements, namely real...

background: ionizing radiation induces the production of reactive oxygen species (ros), which play an important causative role in cell death. the aim of this study was to investigate the protective effects of sulfated derivatives of neutral polysaccharides extracted from auricularia auricular (snaap). materials and methods: whole blood samples from healthy donors treated with snaap at different...