OBJECTIVE Tobacco control policies gained ground nationwide in 2006, with voters in nine states approving legislation to strengthen clean indoor air policies and increase tobacco excise taxes. Despite having the second lowest cigarette tax rate in the nation, Missouri was unsuccessful in passing its 2006 ballot initiative to raise the tax. An important way to encourage health-related policy cha...

The frequency-tagging approach has generally been confined to study low-level sensory processes and always found related activation over the occipital region. Here for the first time, we investigated with it, high-level socio-cognitive functions, i.e. the processing of what other people are looking at which is referred to as level 1 visual perspective taking (VPT). Sixteen participants were pre...

The Disciplined Agile 2.0 process decision framework [1] provides light-weight guidance to help organizations streamline their information tech‐ nology (IT) processes in a context-sensitive manner. It does this by showing how various activities such as solution delivery, operations, enterprise architecture, portfolio management, and many others work together in a cohesive whole. The framework a...

The certificate is a valuable document, and it is of great importance that every doctor should so regard it.The total amount paid away every year in sickness and disablement benefits is over ?11,000,000. It stands to reason that, as the incapacity from work which entitles the insured person to receive the cash payment must be incapacity resulting from " some specific disease or bodily or mental...

"This paper explores the rise in the proportion of one-person households [in South Korea] which since 1960 was attributable largely to rural-to-urban migration of young people. The heavy migration of young people from rural to urban cities actually brought about the rural household division which contributed to the fall in household size, and contributed to the increase in one-person household...

Indifference can never be demonstrated by action. Quite the contrary. Every action necessarily signifies a choice, and every choice signifies a definite preference. Action specifically implies the contrary of indifference. . . . If a person is really indifferent between two alternatives, then he cannot and will not choose between them. Indifference is therefore never relevant for action and can...

A simulation is needed to observe and indicate how much preventive measures influence the pandemic flow, controlling stopping it. This study <span>succeeded in making a stochastic susceptible infected recovered deceased (SIRD) using Python programming language determine effectiveness of prevention methods such as masks policy, social distancing, vaccination, quarantine, lockdown. Every me...