How often are we wise after the event? With the benefit of hindsight we see that we should have paid attention to something but at the time it seemed irrelevant. It may not even have been brought to the attention of the responsible executive as it was considered trivial. We may not have even seen the relevant data, even if we saw it then we may not have paid it much attention. Even if we or our...

AbstractThe present study aimed to evaluate pharmacy practice regarding dietary supplements in Tehran (I.R. Iran). So, the factors affecting on pharmacists' practice including their knowledge, attitude, and some underlying factors were evaluated. This is an observational knowledge; attitude and practice (KAP) study. The unit of analysis include community pharmacies located in Tehran. The data w...

that AIDS is a "racial poison", compared to which the threats to the health of the population identified by the earlier social hygiene movement pale into insignificance! But even to raise such issues is to draw attention to the enormous changes that have occurred in the social framework of discussion on public health since the period that Greta Jones has skilfully anaylsed in this book. As Jane...

The first account of an option trade is found in Aristotle’s Politics. Thales the Milesian is said to have purchased the right to rent the olive presses at a future point in time for a predetermined price. Although many authors in the Real Options literature make reference to Thale’s option trade, no formal discussion has yet been made. This paper provides a more detailed treatment of this issu...

Many online content providers aim to compensate for a loss in advertising revenues by charging consumers for access to content. However, such a choice is not straightforward because subscription fees typically deter customers and a resulting decline in viewership further reduces advertising revenues. This research examines whether firms that offer both free and paid content can benefit from adj...

More than 700 years ago, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) wrote an epic poem about a man's journey through the afterworlds of Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. In his Divine Comedy, he catalogued the vices and virtues of people who had passed into those spiritual domains, in part to provide a valuable insight to us, the living. Dante described hell as a very unhappy and inhospitable place that had differe...