John Kurtzke’s dedication to the study of multiple sclerosis has not waned since the early 1950s. Neurologists are indebted to him for establishing the universally known eponymous Disability Status Scale which, since its introduction in 1955, has allowed patients with multiple sclerosis to be ranked according to impairment and disability (Kurtzke, 1955). The scale has well-identified limitation...

A revised instrument for assessing cultural adaptation and psychological adaptation across diverse groups is reported. The Cultural Adaptation and Adjustment Scale (CAAS) was designed as a research tool in counseling and education to examine various facets of human development and adjustment based on the empirical literature. The exploratory factor analytic study builds on an earlier pilot and ...

Old age is only partly a biological condition. Environments age as well as bodies, and fortunately that process can be retarded. This article records personal techniques that have proved helpful in offsetting some of the physiological limitations of old age and particularly in making it possible to continue to engage in intellectual work. Problems dealt with include sensory and motor deficienci...

Katsuya HIRANO (Assistant Professor, Cornell University), "Power, Parody, Kibyōshi" This presentation examines the political implications of parody enacted through the production and circulation of kibyōshi during the late eighteenth century in Tokugawa Japan. This particular moment marked an extensive, circular, and reciprocal influence between the cultures of subordinate and dominant classes....

Civil society organizations (CSOs), also known as non-governmental (NGOs) or nonprofits, are facing difficult times. Since the mid-2000s, scholars, policy makers, and activists have been sounding alarm bells over growing tendency of governments around globe to restrict ability civil groups form, operate, advocate for particular causes, receive use resources, network with other actors. Different...

We explore the application of stylometric methods developed for modern texts to rhymed medieval narratives (Jacob van Maerlant and Lodewijk van Velthem, ca. 1260–1330). Because of the peculiarities of medieval text transmission, we propose to use highly frequent rhyme words for authorship attribution. First, we shall demonstrate that these offer important benefits, being relatively content-inde...

Infrastructural systems have emerged as productive ethnographic sites for analysing political subjectivities and rationalities. Through the case of shared electricity prepaid meters in compound housing system Accra, Ghana, I suggest that infrastructures’ potential lies their imaginative hermeneutic abilities to foster desires dignity, sustain well-being, question moral ideals collective life. I...

Modern warfare disproportionally affects the lives of women and girls. Females experience armed conflict differently to men due to the gendered division of roles and responsibilities. Historically, direct combat involved participation exclusively by men, with civilians, comprising mainly of women and children, suffering due to displacement and direct targeting. As a result, women are frequently...

Downsizing has become an established part of the management repertoire. One area of concern is the possible linkage between downsizing events and alcohol use and abuse; however, work in this area offers inconclusive evidence of a relationship between layoffs and alcohol use. Using a three-wave panel sample (N=455) from a large U.S. industrial firm that has undergone numerous downsizing events i...