While healers and practitioners have used acupuncture to relieve pain for millennia, modern clinical trials assessing the efficacy of this approach yield seemingly inconsistent and contradictory results. For example, in multiple rigorous studies focusing on chronic lower back pain, acupuncture outperformed standard-of-care (eg, combination of drugs, physical therapy, and exercise); surprisingly...

Statistical graphics and data visualization have long histories, but their modern forms began only in the early 1800s. Between roughly 1850 and 1900 (±10), an explosive growth occurred in both the general use of graphic methods and the range of topics to which they were applied. Innovations were prodigious and some of the most exquisite graphics ever produced appeared, resulting in what may be ...

Dans le contexte de profusion des signes qualité qui caractérise secteur agroalimentaire, l’originalité ce papier est d’évaluer la disposition à payer consommateurs (DAP) pour label agriculture biologique (AB), selon que produit bénéficie ou non d’une appellation d’origine protégée (AOP). L’étude menée partir données d’achats en 2017 sur marché français fromages. Nos résultats montrent les offi...

Notwithstanding the existing array of laws and regulations governing misbranding in the United States, food producers commonly misrepresent the geographic origin and purity and quality of their products. Such misrepresentation has occurred for over a century, yet the government has maintained a reactive stance. As a result, consumer confusion and the dilution of goodwill are widespread. These p...

The economic downturn that began in 2008 led to massive cuts in spending targeted at managerial activities in the UK National Health Service (NHS). Although the appellation 'manager' once conferred status in the NHS, managers have borne the brunt of reform and the term itself is in danger of falling into disrepute. Drawing upon perspectives on leadership that emphasise its constitutive nature, ...

La section Melanocrommyum Webb & Berthel. du genre Allium L., de barycentre irano-anatolien, a longtemps été considérée sous une seule espèce en Europe l'ouest et au Maghreb, à savoir la messicole archéophyte nigrum L.. découverte d'Allium cyrilli Ten. Algérie vient confirmer coexistence des deux espèces comme cela récemment mis évidence France Espagne. Nous donnons comparaison détaillée illust...

Dark tourism is an appellation defining travel to a diverse array of tourist sites that portray death, disasters, or calamities. For over 25 years, dark as international subject scholarly interest has drawn together multidisciplinary discourse, where the dominion dead collides with contemporary touristic consumption. In turn, opened scrutiny our significant Other and how societies deal difficul...

this paper is intended to explain the difference between rhyme of the qur'anic text (fāsila) and rhythmic prose (saj‘). according to the earlier scholars, fāsila signifies the last word of the qur'anic verse and saj‘ is the agreement of the final words in prose which rhyme the same, at least in the final letter. besides giving a definition of saj‘ and fāṣila, this research touches upon the view...

Many places in the world claim to be ‘home of’ a particular sport, for example, Cooperstown and baseball; Springfield College basketball; Lord’s cricket; St Andrews golf; Newmarket horseracing; Twickenham rugby; Hawaii surfing. This appellation is desired title because it suggests distinctiveness authenticity, so provides potential tourism, inward investment sense of place. However, some these ...