hydroxymethylglutaryl co-enzyme a reductase inhibitors, also known as statins, are a class of anti-hyperlipidemic agents. these drugs have been employed vastly to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disorders. soon after their introduction, benefits other than their primary actions were discovered. along with these pleiotropic properties, a series of mainly favorable effects ha...

Introduction A recent article in Elsevier, a Dutch magazine, says that managers involved in strategy making overestimate their possibilities to steer organisations (Crooijmans, 1998). In other terms, managers overestimate their agency, or their ability to make a difference (Giddens, 1984) in an organisation by making and implementing strategies. Then what should strategy consultants do if they ...

This Colloquium is concerned with how our understanding of how our understanding of library, information, and documentation phenomena are related to cultural, historical, social, and political contexts and issues. History is a narrative of what has happened in the past. Heritage is what we now have in the present from that past. The heritage of library, information and documentation studies can...

This paper draws upon the case study of Novi Zagreb to examine the extent to which architecture can resist political authority. Although the circumstances of its conception are still obscure, I argue that it came into existence as an outcome of the resistance of architecture to political forces. In contrast to the existing studies claiming that the first urban complexes of the Naval Institute a...

The birth or presence of a child with hearing defect provides unique and different challenges for family. However, in this situation all family members are hurt and their functions are impaired, but the mother, due to the traditional role of caregiver for these children to have more responsibility, more psychosocial problems may be encountered. The assumption is that the problems associated wit...