It is a curious sidelight on modern civilization that so large a fraction of the community should exhibit these emotional difficulties ; for the symptoms of the functional nervous disorders are the physical expression of emotional conflicts, and these centre round the demands for love, protection and power.1 The first problem is to recognize the functional nervous disorder when it presents itse...

Literature morality relation has remained a point of vital critical debate since the ancient civilization. In the twentieth Century this question has continued ton inspire critical debate despite phenomenal decline in religious and moral aspect of life. But literature and morality relationship is complex and oscillates between complete interdependence to dissociation of such a relation. The stu...

AbstractDams are civil structures essential to modern civilization. However, they can be a threat if not properly designed and operated. A particular risk that potentially lead dam failure i...

The Control of hunger in health and disease. By Anton Julius Carlson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1916. Pp. viii+319. Illus. This volume presents "a summary of the work on the stomach, with special reference to hunger and appetite, carried out in the Hull Physiological Laboratory of the University of Chicago during the last four years," in the light of biological and clinical literatu...

The cultivation and processing of grain is probably one of the most important technological achievements on humanity‘s path to modern civilization. 10,000 years ago, the first grains were already being cultivated in the Middle East, leading to the development of the first advanced civilizations. Today, various types of grains have become staples worldwide and thus essential to the basic livelih...

This paper deals with issues pertaining to solid waste. It discusses problems resulting from both the life style of modern civilization and relationships between the First and Third Worlds, as well as prospects for the environment if a new ethic of solidarity among human beings and respect for life is not established Beginning with this overview, the article deals with specific issues of hospit...

Worlds in Transition is a large and ambitious study about contemporary and emerging global trends, set within the wide context of evolution on planet Earth. The central hypothesis of the book is that in the decades after the world wars, we have seen, and are seeing, the unfolding of a radical transition leading towards the emergence of a new stage in human civilization. This new stage is define...

Libraries of the 21s t century are very different places from those that existed at the beginning of the 20t h century, and very different as well from the libraries of only 25 years ago. Library education has striven to keep pace with all the myriads of changes. Within the last 100 years, fortunately and necessarily in order to retain its relevance, professional library education and practice ...

The history of kidney and urologic disorders dates back to the dawn of civilization. Throughout history of medicine, urine, the first bodily fluid to be examined, has continuously been studied as a means of understanding inner bodily function. The purpose of this review was to appraise the contributions of the ancient Iranian physician pioneers in the field of kidney and urological disorders, a...