Conceptual engineering is the method for assessing and improving our representational devices. On its ‘broad-spectrum’ version, it expected to be appropriately applicable any of representation-involving cognitive activities, with major consequences whole life. This paper about theoretical foundations conceptual thus characterised. With a view ensuring actionability as broad-spectrum method, add...

In Niger, independent mobile health units intended to meet the needs of nomadic populations have proved ineffectual and excessively costly. Primary health care services should be based on fixed structures with a reasonably wide radius of coverage and sufficient flexibility and mobile capacity to fulfil their obligations to all sectors of the population.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate clinical outcomes associated with the resection of both endometrioma and posterior broad ligament (PBL) among women with PBL adhesion associated with endometrioma. METHODS Between January 2007 and December 2009 at the Villanova Hospital, Florence, Italy, a prospective trial was conducted on 99 consecutive patients with unilateral or bilateral endometrioma who underwent l...

Two cases of internal herniation through a defect in the broad ligament of the uterus are described. Both were successfully treated laparoscopically. This rare condition should be borne in mind when a middle-aged woman presents with colicky lower abdominal pain. The cause is unknown, but both congenital and acquired origins have been proposed. As far as emergency situations are concerned, lapar...

The incidence of Broad bean wilt virus 2 (BBWV2) on red pepper was investigated using the samples obtained from 24 areas of 8 provinces in Korea. Two hundred and five samples (79%) out of 260 collected samples were found to be infected with BBWV2. While the single infection rate of BBWV2 was 21.5%, the co-infection rate of BBWV2 with Cucumber mosaic virus, Pepper mottle virus, Pepper mild mottl...