Over the weekend following Christmas 2015, as many as 10,000 Muslims convened at Chicago’s McCormick Place for the 14th annual Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America (MAS-ICNA) Convention. Neatly bearded men, typically in casual western clothes were much in evidence, along with a few in business suits and some in traditional, billowing cotton tunics and pants. As for the women,...

The Supreme Court’s decision will have ramifications for pharmacies way beyond California. The National Association of State Budget Officers, reported last May that 33 states planned to reduce payment to Medicaid providers in fiscal 2012. For 46 states, this already began on July 1; 16 states planned to freeze provider rates, and 27 states were considering measures to reduce prescription drug s...

As new treatments and diagnostic methods are developed, oncology commands an increasingly wide range of technologies and effective procedures. Yet, in the background is the necessity to deal with an equally complex array of psychosocial problems and lifechanging issues that affect patients with cancer. These problems include, to name only a few, self-image issues caused by hair loss or weight c...

Traditionally, thematic relatedness (chicken and egg) and similarity (chicken and turkey) have been thought of as distinct phenomena, the former the result of associative processes, and the latter reflecting comparison processes . However, recent studies (Bassok & Medin, 1996 ; Wisniewski & Bassok, 1996) suggest that similarity is a result of both association and comparison . This could call fo...

Food Science and TechnologyVolume 36, Issue 2 p. 18-23 FeaturesFree Access production in hostile environments First published: 09 June 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/fsat.3602_4.xAboutSectionsPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text full-text accessPlease review our Terms Conditions of Use check box below share version article.I have read accept...