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Each time I read a news report about a lawsuit filed against tobacco companies, or a jury award in such a case, I salute the courage and tenacity of those individuals and families who continue to carry the tobacco battle forward in the courtroom. Of course, the lawyers deserve credit as well, and there are many others among the global tobacco control community who have contributed time and expe...

the present study was conducted to determine the association between social support and health-related qol (hrql) for a sample of 120 patients living with hiv/aids in tehran.eighty male and 40 female living with hiv referred to iranian aids research center at imam khomini hospital in tehran, iran in 2011 were randomly selected for assessment. data was collected by means of vaux's social support...

This paper describes the development of a fuzzy decision support system (FDSS) for the assessment of risk in e-commerce (EC) development. A Web-based prototype FDSS is designed and developed to assist EC project managers in identifying potential EC risk factors and the corresponding project risks. A risk analysis model for EC development using a fuzzy set approach is proposed and incorporated i...

Security risk analysis should be conducted regularly to maintain an acceptable level of security. In principle, all risks that are unacceptable according to the predefined criteria should be mitigated. However, risk mitigation comes at a cost, and only the countermeasures that cost-efficiently mitigate risks should be implemented. This paper presents an approach to integrate the countermeasure ...

1 Stanford Law School, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 3 Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, 4 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Ma...