The inclusion of pharmacists in the healthcare system of a developing country like Pakistan has always been a subject of debate among the healthcare professionals (HCPs), especially physicians, who have long ruled the healthcare system alone and who have had a long-held position of supremacy. The common argument against the inclusion of pharmacists is the dynamics of the healthcare system, and ...

On June 26, 2015, exactly two years after it invalidated key portions of the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) in United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court issued its historic 5-4 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that same-sex couples could no longer be barred from exercising the fundamental right to marriage. For marriageequality supporters, this judicial victory represented “the culmi...

In the course of screening for new antitumor substances, BE-18591 (la) was isolated from cultures of Streptomyces sp. BA18591X). The isolation and physico-chemical properties together with biological activities are reported in the preceding paper. In this paper, the structure elucidation is described. The physico-chemical properties of la were summarized in a previous paper1*. The molecular for...

Stage 2: The instrumental relativist orientation. Right action consists of what instrumentally satisfies one's own needs and occasionally the needs of others. Human relations are viewed in terms such as those of the market place. Elements of fairness, reciprocity, and equal sharing are present, but they are always interpreted in a physical, pragmatic way. Reciprocity is a matter of "you scratch...

commissioned in 1929 by the government of Southern Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) to research the language varieties spoken by Zimbabwean natives. His work, which was premised on the quest for standardised, monolithic and homogeneous linguistic categories, marked the genesis of language politics in Zimbabwe. The Dokean legacy left an indelible mark on the terrain of language treatment and lang...

to be found in these pages the latest facts and figures as to what is actually happening but they also reveal how the problem is presenting itself to those most closely at grips with it, and what is the angle from which it is being approached. From the report before us we learn that so far as the working of Section J of the Mental Deficiency Act is concerned, the position is distinctly improvin...

In this study we explore two different perspectives of one ICT project. The “mainstream” believed that an educational ICT project for Taiwanese aboriginals was successful, while the local aboriginals and local teachers did not. Using ethnographic research, we investigated the possible reasons for the disparity between the views of the mainstream and the locals. Our findings indicate that the pa...

Monitoring approaches to consciousness claim that a mental state is conscious when it is suitably monitored. Higher-order monitoring theory makes the monitoring state and the monitored state logically independent. Same-order monitoring theory claims a constitutive, non-contingent connection between the monitoring state and the monitored state. In this paper, I articulate different versions of t...