Considering Russia’s rich and vast oil resources, this country is one of the world’s greatest producers and exporters of this nonrenewable energy resource, and like other petrostates, receives a major part of its national income in this way. The dependence of Russia’s budget on oil has raised the significance of world oil price fluctuations for this country. Since 1970s, the global oil market h...

The Fifth International Conference on Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support Systems and Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Perfusion was held in conjunction with the Joint Congress of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) 55th Annual Conference and the International Federation for Artificial Organs (IFAO) at the Hilton Anatole Dallas Hotel, Dallas, TX, May 27–30, 2009. Approxima...

RoboCup was started in 1997 by a group of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics researchers with the following grand challenge, to be achieved by 2050 [9]: “to build a team of robot soccer players, which can beat a human World Cup champion team.” Since then, RoboCup Federation1 established itself as a structured organization and as one of the major events in the research field of Artificial Inte...

In February 2008 the European Academy of Periodontology (EAP), a standing committee of the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP), invited seventy-three researchers and clinical experts from Europe and overseas for a 5-day consensus meeting on “Contemporary Periodontics.” Five working sessions covered the topics “Innovations in Periodontal Practice,” “Periodontal Tissue Engineering and Reg...

Readers will be familiar with high profile media items, like the Audit Commission investigating national public institutions, and publicising rigorous critiques of their 'value for money'. Family planning (FP) services may be interested to learn that the Audit Commission also perform 'district audits' (nothing to do with 'clinical audit') and that these can analyse broader concerns to do with q...

Endometrial cancer is the third most common gynecologic cancer in the Korea and occurs mainly in menopausal women. Although it can develop in young premenopausal women cancer as well, an attack in the adolescent girl is very rare. A 13-year-old girl visited gynecology department with the complaint of abnormal uterine bleeding. An endometrial biopsy revealed FIGO (International Federation of Gyn...

1Department of Community Medicine, Iraqi College of Medicine, Kadmiya, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Directorate General of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT We assessed the effect of community participation on treatment outcomes for tuberculosis patients undergoing directly-observed therapy, short course (DOTS). From February to December 2001 172 newly diagnosed patients in Ba...