Leadership is one of the most examined human behavioral phenomena. While leadership appears easy to see, it remains difficult to define. Despite the abundance of leadership theories and widely known experts, there are no generally accepted definitions of leadership. The challenge of redefining health information management (HIM) leadership is compounded by the ongoing changes in HIM and the cri...

My father spoke in proverbs, but for many years I did not notice. Only after I completed my graduate studies in folklore and began teaching, did I become aware of the idioms in his conversation. Without being a religious person he interlaced his anecdotes and narratives with proverbs, biblical verses, and parables from the talmuds. I began to pay attention. A few years later, when I visited my ...

DURING iTS two hundred and sixty-eight years of domination over the Maltese Islands (1530-1798), the Order of St. John of Jerusalem waged an unceasing war against the Barbary and Turkish pirates in the Mediterranean. Those who escaped death were enslaved by the victor, irrespective of sex or age, or whether they were combatants or simply passengers and crews of unarmed vessels; so much so that ...

shiite murji’ah is a movement in the second century of kufah. having distinguished themselves from official shiites after the rise of some political-social events in kufah and basically as a way of solving the troubles before shiite community, they adopted an idea concerning imamat –which is the most central foundation of shiite thought- which was a kind of retreatment from this foundation. tho...

background: macrophages have important role in defense against herpes simplex virus type-1 (hsv-1). the present study was performed to determine the viability and nitric oxide (no) production by hsv-1 infected mouse peritoneal macrophages (him).   method: the viability of macrophages was evaluated using mtt reduction assay and the production of nitrite using griess method.   results: the abilit...

... I knew Peter when he was head of the Department Public Health at University Liverpool and worked closely with him for >10 years. My interest in paediatric perinatal epidemiology nurtured developed by him, eventually took over running Merseyside Cheshire Cerebral Palsy register. He also Editor International Journal Epidemiology during this time (1991–2000)—a responsibility seriously, spendin...

E.B. arrived at my office through a roundabout route. He was a man in his mid-30's, of Latin descent, and had originally sought a woman therapist. But the woman psychologist he first consulted felt he needed to see a male therapist, and referred him to me. Our first meeting was unusual and somewhat difficult: B.B. volunteered little information, except for what I specifically asked for, and he ...

BACKGROUND Adolf Kussmaul was born in Graben, close to Karlsruhe, Germany, on February 22,1822. He graduated at Heidelberg University in 1845 and he received his medical degree in 1855. He made original descriptions, such as the ophthalmoscope, the gastroscope or endoscope, and Kussmaul signs, besides the respiration named after him. He was the first to perform a thoracocenteses, peritoneal and...