Introduction For more than two decades, annual distributions of hundreds of thousands of metric tons of food aid have been channeled into safety net programs designed to alleviate the impact of food shortages in Ethiopia. Despite the massive size and duration of this effort, there remain many unanswered questions about its effectiveness and about its longer-term impact on the population it is d...

The last 2 decades witnessed remarkable events in the life of academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States. Twenty years ago, AMCs were thriving as the era of fee-for-service medicine came to a close: clinical departments were expanding, hiring new faculty members, purchasing new equipment as necessary, and funding research projects and protected research time with the abundant clinical...

Periodontitis is a multi-factorial disease which has affected mankind since the dawn of an era. Prevalence of periodontal disease has considerably increased over a period of time. Periodontal research has progressed tremendously worldwide. In India in spite of increased periodontal research, many problems are faced by the clinicians. It leads to improper recording of the results and resultant f...

censorship has a long history in iran that has interfered with text production, i.e., original writing as well as translation. this phenomenon seems to have marked the borderline between the government and the ‘enlightened’ intellectuals throughout history in iran. different governments have delineated ‘redlines’ for authors and translators and dealt with these constructors of culture based on ...

The trickster figure is a common cultural feature globally. A not-so-pious Muslim cleric, with foolish deeds and clever sayings, Nasreddin (Nasreddin Hoca in Turkish, Molla Farsi, Joha Arabic) has been the most popular folk character Middle East for centuries. Nasreddin: Making of Modern Trickster (1906-1911) investigates how cartoon journal South Caucasus, Nasreddin, reproduced as medium socia...

Renal development in rodents, unlike in humans, continues during early postnatal period. We aimed to evaluate whether the pharmacological inhibition of Endothelin system during this period affects renal development, both at structural and functional level in male and female rats. Newborn rats were treated orally from postnatal day 1 to 20 with vehicle or bosentan (Actelion, 20 mg/kg/day), a dua...

OBJECTIVE To report treatment strategies' evolution and its impact on congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) outcome. DESIGN Registry-based cohort study using the CDH Study Group database, 1995-2013. SETTING International multicenter database. PATIENTS CDH patients entered into the registry. Late presenters or patients with very incomplete data were excluded. Patients were divided into thr...