T his supplement to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine presents evidence reviews and recommendations from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) regarding three intervention areas for the prevention of violence: firearms laws, early childhood visitation, and therapeutic foster care. 1–3 Of the interventions evaluated by the Task Force, two are recommended for ...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the major barriers to application of Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) technologies in sustainability of livestock by ranchers of Meshkinshahr. A sample of 120 farmers was selected by using proportional random sampling method. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire. Validity of questionnaire was determined through Agricultural Jihad ex...

This paper proposes perceptual multilingualism as a research interest within the broader folk linguistic enterprise. By drawing on geolinguistic mapping tasks popular in dialectology – whereby participants are asked to draw and depict dialectal diversity given region we show that can elicit knowledge reasoning community about more broadly. To do this, analysed discussed 41 maps produced by high...

Instrumental acoustic measurements of the human voice have enormous potential to objectively describe pathology and, thereby, assist clinical treatment decisions. Despite increasing application and accessibility technical knowledge equipment, recent research has highlighted a lack understanding physiologic, speech/language-, culture-related influencing factors. This article presents critical re...