India's Peasant Rebellions at the Current Juncture

Lifestyle: Bioethics at a critical juncture.

More than ever, the way we live our lives has become subject to our own decisionmaking. Our whole way of living, in particular what we do to our body, has become the expression of personal lifestyle choices. Because we can make changes to our body according to our own individual preferences, every aspect of our life begins to be seen as the result of individual and voluntary decisions. The comp...

Indias last bastion of polio at "tipping point".

Viscodelamination at the vitreoretinal juncture in severe diabetic eye disease.

Injection of 1% methylcellulose or 1% sodium hyaluronate (Healonid) was used to separate attached vitreous cortex and fibrovascular epiretinal membranes from the retina in 40 eyes undergoing closed microsurgery for severe diabetic eye disease. The viscodelamination technique was of great value in elevating vitreous cortex or sparsely vascularised epiretinal membranes, especially in eyes with co...

Violent Rebellions and Criminal States

A legitimate state uses violence to enforce contractual agreements within its territory. Criminal organizations may enforce transactions that are legally restricted or banned, or otherwise ignored by the legitimate state. In this sense, criminal organizations may also function as states. Legitimate states may be threatened by violent rebellions. I model how legitimate states and rebellions may ...

Juncture Cues to Dissuency

This paper describes properties of normal dissuent speech which help listeners to distinguish dissuent from uent strings of speech. It focusses on juncture phenomena in cases where there is no clear silent pause at the interruption point. Recent attempts to identify acoustically identiiable features of speech which can be seen as reliable indicators of dissu-ency have produced several suggestio...