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sten jacket m Professional practitioners are increasingly questioning the status quo with regard to restrictions on the advertising of professional services.It occurs against the background of developments such as deregulation and increased competition from non-professionals.Professional associations are largely uncertain how to address the issue.T
Introduction: Hajj is an annual mass gathering of over 3.5 million pilgrims congregating from 200 countries in the desert climate of Saudi Arabia.Mass gathering medicine at Hajj is challenged by issues of healthcare accessibility, infection control, on-site treatment, referral, evacuation, and response to disasters and public health emergencies.The
We tested the hypothesis that cryptically colored eggs would suffer less predation than conspicuous eggs in the ground-nesting red-legged partridge, Alectoris rufa.We used A.rufa as a model species because it has a wide range of natural egg colors, the eggs are widely available from breeding farms, and nests are easily mimicked because they are scr