Traditional and complementary systems of medicine include a broad range of practices, which are commonly embedded in cultural milieus and reflect community beliefs, experiences, religion, and spirituality. Two major components of this system are discernible: complementary alternative medicine and traditional medicine, with different clientele and correlates of patronage. Evidence from around th...

BACKGROUND In developing countries, complementary foods are often introduced earlier or later than appropriate and the quality is frequently insufficient, particularly in rural areas where complementary foods have traditionally been based on starchy gruels. Adequate intakes of a number of nutrients are recognized to be problematic in traditional complementary feeding regimens in developing soci...

More and more cancer patients use complementary therapies. As the majority of patients do not disclose their use of complementary therapies to their oncologists, they expose themselves to possible detrimental effects from the therapies due to drug interactions. To meet the needs of patients and health care professionals on valid information on complementary therapies, the collaborative research...

Developing a usable tourist information system necessitate the gathering of requirements from tourists and visitors in situ. Traditional methods alone are argued as not sufficient for such needs. Thus, Wizard-of-Oz tests conducted with tourists in the intended environment of use are proposed as a complementary requirements gathering method.

This paper is devoted to consider the notions of complementary problem (CP) and set-valued complementary problem (SVCP). The set-valued complementary problem is compared with the classical single-valued complementary problem. Also, the solution set of the set-valued complementary problem is characterized. Our results illustrated by some examples. This paper is devoted to co...

.......................................................................................................................... 4 Introduction..................................................................................................................... 5 Overview: Ideal and Existing Approaches ..................................................................... 5 Resource Needs Model (RNM) ....