This article explores the relationship between literature, childhoods, and youth in the educational sphere during the Popular Unity administration (UP... [more]
This essay reflects on the paradox of how the twenty-first-century opening up of comparative literature to non-Western literatures under the aegis of ... [more]
The existence of hundreds of languages in the Democratic Republic of Congo has rendered the language policy a very critical issue from the time this huge territory became a private possession of the Belgian King Leopold II, through its colonization by Bel
Unlike burnt bone, cooked bone leaves no obvious trace. The ability to identify cooked bone has far reaching implications within the fields of palaeo-anthropology, archaeology and forensic science. There is, however, only limited literature on low tempera
Understanding patterns of mobility among ancient populations is inextricably linked to an understanding of fundamental aspects of social and economic systems. On the Northwest Coast of North America, archeologists use attributes of the lithic assemblage,
This autobiographical essay 'takes cultural studies personally', drawing on experience, identity and the personal to indicate how and why the author is proponent of and is working on developing a model of cultural studies as social justice praxis despit
We prove two art gallery theorems in which the guards must guard one another in addition to the gallery. A set g of points (the guards) in a simple closed polygon (the art gallery) is a guarded guard set provided (i) every point in the polygon is visible
The aim of this study is to examine cross-cultural politeness behavior. Politeness appears to be a prevalent concept in human interaction, and to date, many models of politeness have been put forward in the literature. The focal point of this paper is Bro
Clinical reports from tropical countries show that the tertiary lesions of yaws (Treponema pertenue) can cause gross deformities of cutaneous and osseous tissues representing a functional cost to the individual and the community. The palaeopathological li
Thirty-five polished stone axes and shaft-hole implements which had been previously assigned by petrographic (partially destructive) study to Group XVIII (assumed to be from the Whin Sill dolerite source in northern England), were characterised non-destru
In this article major ancient Buddhist meditation techniques, samatha, vipassana, Zen, and ton-len, will be described in reference to contemporary clinical hypnosis. In so doing, the Eastern healing framework out of which these techniques emerged is exami
Many studies have examined tactile perception and simple auditory perception in the blind, but none have previously investigated the neural basis of musical ability in this group. This topic is of particular interest because it has been suggested that ear
David Lack of Oxford University and V. C. Wynne- Edwards of Aberdeen University were renowned ornithologists with contrasting views of the modern synthesis which deeply influenced their interpretation and explanation of bird behavior. In the 1950' s and
An increased awareness of the spiritual aspects of health and illness has recently led to changes in psychiatry residency training as well as hospital accreditation requirements. The spiritual impact of trauma has been an area of particular interest, as t
This article develops the construct of workplace forgiveness by drawing from several relevant literatures. Forgiveness is defined as a process by which an offended worker cognitively acknowledges the wrongfulness of an injurious act and deliberately choos
Apatite veins exposed at Tabun Cave were collected for an electron spin resonance (ESR) dating feasibility study. The dose response and thermal stability of the ESR signals were found to be suitable for an age determination using a signal at g = 2.0015. T
Numerous indications in literature argue that diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is aetiologically linked with obesity and late onset (type 11) diabetes. Thus its incidence should differ in socially stratified societies where individuals have