The World Health Organization (WHO) was born after the devastation of World War II, as a normative agency endowed with unprecedented constitutional powers. But even as it has achieved stunning successes, such as the eradication of smallpox, it has failed to live up to the exalted expectations of the postwar health and human rights movement - exemplified most recently by its inadequate response ...

Sets of related norms (normative systems) are likely to evolve due to changing goals of an organization or changing values of a society, this may introduce incoherence, such as the simultaneous prohibition and obligation of an action or a set of deadlocked duties. This paper presents a compositional framework that may be used for detecting whether normative systems are coherent by analysing tra...

Computerized dynamic posturography is commonly used to assess balance in service members, but normative values for the military population have not been established. What are Motor Control Test (MCT), Sensory Organization (SOT) and enhanced SOT (eSOT) within at which point do they differ? Cross-sectional study. 237 active duty members (78 % male) completed MCT, eSOT with sway manipulated a gain...

The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) was started a century ago to foster and to address the needs of the younger physician-scientists. A hundred years later, ASCI remains one of the premier organizations for physician-scientists and one of most well-respected organizations in the medical community. I have had the opportunity and pleasure to interact with the ASCI not only as a...

The endless quest for the 'fountain of youth' has led to the discovery of a family of molecules known as sirtuins in humans, or silent mating type information regulator 2 (Sir2) in yeast, which are associated with longevity in yeast, nematodes, drosophila and rodents. Although sirtuins have yet to be proven to delay aging and promote longevity in humans, they promise 'healthy aging', an ideal o...

background: a nurse’s commitment is the most important factor that influences her performance and depends on other variables. the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between length of service of the nurses with the amount of occupational commitment and organizational commitment. methods: from winter 2012 to spring 2013, 266 nurses were chosen in selected hospitals of social s...