OUR PROBLEMS

Our Problems: Our Solutions

Discussion on the unique characteristics of psychiatry in a non-Western country like India, often tend to be limited to culture-bound syndrome like Koro, possession state etc. It is, no doubt, important for us to be able to recognize these problems and render effective treatment to individuals suffering from them. It is also interesting to speculate on the cultural factors which contribute to t...

Mobile Sensors Our Research Solves Problems

The tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH37. Both show the critical need for robots capable of working together as a mobile sensor network in a highly dynamic, potentially hazardous environment. Nina Mahmoudian wants to increase the effectiveness of the response by robots to environmental and human disasters. Her goal: to develop tools and algorithms t...

The grave problems being faced by our health sector.

Computers and Major Ethical Problems in Our Society

Overview This paper suggests that the computer, as a highly interactive learning device, might be able to contribute to the solution of some of the major ethical problems of our society. The problem of violence receives particular attention. The fundamental idea is highly interactive learning delivered to everyone through computers , beginning in early childhood and using voice input and voice ...

Juvenile Delinquency *Our fourth article on special problems.—Ed.

an indication of some mental variation in the individual. That delinquency occurs means more than simply something the matter with the individual ; it signifies also some malady of society. There is a tendency among some workers to regard social conditions as embracing the whole causation, but to adopt such a point of view is to be in error. There are nearly always several causal factors, as al...