ANNALS COMMENTARY ANNALS COMMENTARY intellectual commerce-legal paradigms for global initiatives Human intellect is the genesis of the proud civilizations, where it carried out its collective march towards a 'better tomorrow'. The creative manifestations of the great intellects brought all of us from dark and dingy grottos to the luminous urbanity of the present day. For every small step forwar...

This paper examines how home is produced by women under conditions of violence. It contends why domestic violence (DV) not a disruption, but ‘condition possibility’ in the production ideal home. Drawing on cultural aphorisms highlights role gender norms simultaneously idealizing mother and normalizing DV Sri Lanka. The veneration all ethno-religious communities, argues, conditioned upon woman’s...

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 Renato Dantes, “Tato” to most of his colleagues, was given a posthumous award in March 2009 as outstanding researcher by the Philippine College Chest Physicians (PCCP) which he past president 2006-2007. A part citation reads, “in recognition innovativeness, enthusiasm, vigor, selflessness end that they will be testament what best human mind can accomplish field research, for rest...

We study the following problem in a sovereign informationsharing setting: How to ensure that the individual participants, driven solely by self-interest, will behave honestly, even though they can benefit from cheating. This benefit comes from learning more than necessary private information of others or from preventing others from learning the necessary information. We take a game-theoretic ap...

Physicians as leaders of change and burnout agents face constant challenges leadership within their group practices. The importance skills, knowledge, competencies necessitates that the rapidly changing volatile healthcare environment needs to be reassessed. Seeing physicians individuals in hospital systems, having limited effectiveness, only seems evade need wield effective private practice. T...

Female ornamentation has long been overlooked because of the greater prevalence of elaborate displays in males. However, the circumstances under which females would benefit from honestly signalling their quality are limited. Females are not expected to invest in ornamentation unless the fitness benefits of the ornament exceed those derived from investing the resources directly into offspring. I...

A key question in research on empathy is what interpersonal motivations might be activated by empathy. Does empathy promote only a concern with other’s outcomes (“altruism”), as well as decreased concern with one’s own outcomes (“selflessness”), or an increased concern with equality in outcomes (“egalitarianism”)? These interpersonal motivations were assessed with a series of experimental games...

Media depictions of ageing have become polarised. On the one hand we have skydiving grannies, marathon running granddads, and national treasures such as Judi Dench and David Attenborough. And then we have “The Elderly”—hapless victims of neglect, passive recipients of care, burdens on public services, and part of a “grey tsunami.” Over the past few months, an avalanche of articles and books has...