ScienceCentral, a free or open access, full-text archive of scientific journal literature at the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, was under test in September 2013. Since it is a Journal Article Tag Suite-based full text database, extensible markup language files of all languages can be presented, according to Unicode Transformation Format 8-bit encoding. It is comparable t...

INTRODUCTION The worldwide spread of antimicrobial resistance is now recognised as a global public health threat. Owing to the geographical heterogeneity, complexity and continuously evolving dynamics of resistant organisms and genes, surveillance is a key tool for understanding, measuring and informing actions in the fight against this problem. To date there is no harmonisation of key indicato...

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author (Charles Caleb Colton, English sportsman and writer, 1780-1832). Scholarly journals have been the basic tool for scientific communication for over three centuries, since the Flemish itinerant craftsman William Caxton and his assistant Wy...

Today, sustainable management of the environment and its resources is an issue of vital importance in our contemporary societies and especially in developed societies. The scarcity of resources may well account for this fact. The importance of this problem underlies the necessity for adapting measures aiming at its solution. Many research papers and scientific conferences have been devoted to t...

phomas. Moreover the Societies will provide regularly, twice a year, a list of medical and scientific events, including meetings, seminars, stages, and workshops, which have been selected for their quality, are worthy of the auspices of the Societies and can provide qualified credits for CME. Operating in this way at a national level will allow Italy to be ready to contribute to CME at the Euro...

From 22–24 September 2010 the Second Meeting of the Federation of European Societies of Neuropsychology was held at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The aim of the conference was to provide a meeting place for neuropsychologists, clinicians as well as researchers, from all over Europe. About 450 participants from 17 European countries gathered to present their researc...

The Codex Alimentarius Commission of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) develops food standards, guidelines and related texts for protecting consumer health and ensuring fair trade practices globally. The major part of the world's population lives in more than 160 countries that are members of the Codex Alimentarius. The Cod...

As president of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, I have been asked to speak to councils of scientific societies, government officials, voluntary health organizations, lay audiences, and the press about matters of public policy, especially as they affect federal support for research in medicine and the related life sciences. One question I am asked frequently is whe...

AIM To briefly review history, structure, past events and future projects of AIRO (Associazione Italiana Radioterapia Oncologica) young group (AIRO Giovani), focusing on its specific commitment to multidisciplnary networking among junior clinical oncologists at a national and international level. BACKGROUND AIRO Giovani is a part of AIRO composed by members under 40 years old. Its main activi...

INTRODUCTION A system for monitoring the use of aphaeresis in the treatment of ulcerative colitis (UC), named system for monitoring aphaeresis in ulcerative colitis (SiMAC), was designed in 2006 in the Basque Country. In the present study, the opinion of the clinicians who participated in SiMAC was evaluated, in order to identify the barriers and gather suggestions that could improve implementa...