While I am encouraged by the Obama administration's recent shift in strategy towards an increased role for US troops in the protection of Afghan civilians, it begs the broader question of whether top-down military interventions imposed by the global North are the best means for securing a lasting peace in Afghanistan, or for that matter in any foreign country.
A continuous nephrological care of kidney transplant recipients, especially during ongoing viral or bacterial infections or during interventions imposed by other medical disciplines (exposure to contrast media, surgery) in a specialist transplant centre, should be suggested.
Thus, the metals and arsenic levels assessed in this study were compared to the EU intervention limits imposed by the law for soil and subsoil of residential or industrial areas and to literature data.
However, our analyses show that despite recent attention regarding AES and public health interventions, constraints imposed by the district's surveillance capacity hinder patient management, policy decisions, and implementation of prevention and control measures.
The numerator takes into consideration the additional costs that one intervention imposes over another.
Drought treatment was imposed by withholding irrigation.
The regulation of such growth is complex and may be affected by nutritional interventions imposed many years previously.
Some tyrants were usurpers who came to power by their own efforts; others were elected to rule; and still others were imposed by intervention from outside.
This study set out to investigate the relative effectiveness of four types of coercive interventions used by the mental health services, and the relative psychological and physical burdens these interventions imposed on patients.
Yet the idealists insist on pursuing a more ambitious agenda: nothing short of democracy and justice, imposed by military intervention.
