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The policies enacted in a country have a significant bearing in shaping service delivery to the people. Power significantly influences the establishment of policies such as health policy. This study will examine how power affects policy making process with close reference to the case study of Saudi Arabia's privatisation policy. In Saudi Arabia, major decisions preceding policy creation are crafted by the government in power. As such, power has a significant influence in defining policies affecting various sectors within the country.

Background: Ageing is universal, inevitable, irreversible slow process that results in detrimental changes in physiological function of most tissues and organ system. The number of aged is increasing rapidly. It carries important social and economic implications. The problems faced by aged persons are multiple, multi dimensional, not merely medical but socio-economical, emotional, psychological, rehabilitative and related to social security. The common morbidities due to ageing are cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, cataract, hearing impairment, etc.

Thyroid Stimulating Hormone is secreted from the anterior pituitary and controls the synthesis and secretion of thyroid hormones from thyroid gland. Serum TSH level is the good indicator of thyroid functions and, is of great importance as a diagnostic tool in many thyroid disorders. Similarly in Unani medicine Mizaj is the indicator of domination or excess of a particular khilt in the body. Mizaj is considered as a diagnostic tool and also provide basis for pharmacotherapy.

Objective: To reflect about the state of the art in nursing as the use of Transpersonal Caring Theory of Jean Watson. Methods: Bibliometric study developed in the Virtual Health Library and the theses/dissertations database cataloged at the Center for Studies and Research in Nursing of the Brazilian Nursing Association, from 1999 to 2014, using the descriptor "Nursing" associated to the keywords "transpersonal care" and "Jean Watson." Data collection was conducted between May and June 2016.

Background: Goiter is defined as an enlargement of the thyroid gland and it had been recognized since 2700B.C. Thyroid cancer is responsible for six deaths per million persons annually. Most patients present with a palpable swelling in the neck. The finding of a clinically solitary non toxic thyroid nodule has usually being a strong indication for surgery because it is considered to be a highly suspicious sign of carcinoma. Aim of study: To evaluate the role and accuracy of history taking, physical examination and FNAC in the pre-operative diagnosis of thyroid cancer.

Background and aims: Recent estimations show us an important increase of the neoplastic disorders, especially in developed countries, cancer being the second cause of mortality after cardiovascular diseases. Diabetes mellitus type 2 is associated with an increased risk of neoplastic diseases (especially colorectal cancer, breast cancer, pancreatic cancer). The factors involved in the increase of this risk at patient with diabetes mellitus type 2 are hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia and high levels of the hormone insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1).

In this paper, we utilize the CLRS and JCLRST properties to prove some existence theorems of common fixed point for contractive mappings in fuzzy metric spaces. Our results generalize and extend the result of Saurabh Manror and Calogero vetro [28]. An example and some applications are given to show the usability of the presented results.

The role of industry in general and mainly processing industry in maintaining economic growth is placed under the thorough point of view in this paper. Brief review of concerned literature is performed as well. Trigonometric function has been applied in measuring the structural changes in industrial sector. Practical unit of the paper deals with structural changes estimating of the structure of industry sector of Uzbekistan. Econometric analysis of industry output influence on gross domestic product has been conducted and final conclusions have been worked out in the paper.

Airplane exhaust and rocket fuel at high altitudes add small quantities of air pollutants and haze from partly combusted fuel. The high altitude haze is long-lived, regional, and transported by jet streams. The high altitude haze life-time (half-life probability) is greater than at the ground. The data on carbon dioxide emissions from international travel and Southern Asiatic mountain shields may be representative of the haze. Also, any air pollutant heavier than the ambient air exerts signature physical properties.

This paper investigates professionalism in mathematics teacher education and its influence on teacher practice in Liberia with special reference to the KRTTI and ZRTTI. In the study, we used samplesize of 100 teachers and 23 administrators. We employed a combination of both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The quantitative approach used was a self-administered questionnaire and the qualitative approaches included use of interviews and an observation guide. The study reveals the following findings: a teacher’s professional education does affect his/her practices on the job.