The use of pharmaceuticals has led to considerable improvements in human and animal health. As a consequence of disposal also needs to be considered, making pharmaceuticals a waste management concern. While the disposal of waste pharmaceutical residues through the wastewater stream is widely studied, there are limited data on the disposal of unused pharmaceuticals. It is essential to ascertain ...

In a 9-hour experiment we evaluated learning performance based on exploring the shortest paths in hyperlink network of Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Relying on network of 35688 unique hyperlinks in three separate learning sessions of 20 minutes students read series of 62 sentences built by using 22 unique hyperlinks that form the eleven shortest paths and answered pre-test and post-test multip...

A microbiologist and pathologist, who was engaged in research on African Tick-borne Relapsing Fever, Joseph Everett Dutton (Fig. 1), became a victim of this disease. He was born on 9th of September 1874 in Higher Bebington, Cheshire, as the fifth son of the chemist John Dutton, was educated from 1888 to 1892 in the King’s School of Chester, and entered the Liverpool Medical School and the Royal...

First Aid Apps enable the public to learn skills that could save their lives and increase their resilience. A comparative review of the adoption of the First Aid App by Red Cross National Societies revealed context specific factors influencing local app engagement. Drawing on these differences, this paper compares engagement in response to critical events in Israel and Malta. Whilst Malta has b...

Mental Health Services in Malta are presently at crossroads, because they are in the stage of increasing and strengthening the community services and considering closing the main psychiatric inpatient facility and replacing it with a new hospital. For proper planning of such changes, and ideal approach is that of basing these plans on results of population based epidemiological findings on rate...

The study explored the question of who am I? As a (re)construction of cultural identity by delving into globalization, communication, and social change in Malta during a historical moment when Malta became a European Union Member State. Three objectives guided this qualitative study. Firstly the study reviewed European Union (EU) policies that regulate broadcasting and their implementation in M...