During the last two decades, a surge of historical revisionism has commanded considerable attention in both academia and the public sphere, as historians have linked their understandings of the past to salient problems and identity crises of the present. Increasingly, the histories of nations have been problematized and have become the object of commemorative battles. Historiographical disputes...

Groundwater has been used for domestic and irrigation needs from time immemorial. Yet its nature and occurrence have always possessed a certain mystery because water below the land surface is invisible and relatively inaccessible. The influence of this mystery lingers in some tenets that govern groundwater law. With the birth of modern geology during the late nineteenth century, groundwater sci...

symbolic architecture of the children's hospital. In many ways the most ambitious of the essays in this volume (the author is forced, not least, to get to grips with the very notion of the "history of childhood") it reads as a preliminary study, a promise of further investigations to come. By contrast, Alfons Labisch offers in the concluding historical essay, 'The social construction of health'...

Demystification of microbial behaviour in mixed biofilms could have a major impact on our understanding of infectious diseases. The objectives of this study were to evaluate in vitro the interactions of six different Candida species and a Gram-negative coliform, Escherichia coli, in dual-species biofilms, and to assess the effect of E. coli LPS on Candida biofilm formation. A single isolate of ...

BACKGROUND The transition from university-based to clerkship-based education can be challenging. Medical schools have introduced strategies to ease the transition, but there has been no systematic review synthesizing the evidence on the perceptions of preparedness of medical students for their first clerkship to support these interventions. This study therefore aimed to (1) identify and synthes...

Liposuction to correct unaesthetic deposits of fatty tissue is the most commonly performed cosmetic surgical procedure worldwide. 1 Highly satisfactory silhouette contouring may be achieved when appropriately trained operators perform the procedure with properly selected technologies on well-selected patients and anatomical areas. The fundamental principles of the technique have evolved into th...

T he actin cytoskeleton is the main driver of cell motility, an essential function of normal body tissues. However, the same processes are also at the heart of cancer cell metastasis and invasion. Understanding the normal regulation of actin-dependent cell motil-ity and how this is altered in cancer cells should leave us better equipped to tackle the disease. Laura Machesky's research is aimed ...

This book is part of the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series. According to editors its primary aim present a philosophical study and defense idea enchantment, response cultural trends modern world where life for humanity has become disenchanted. Disenchantment as concept, originally credited German sociologist Max Weber (1864–1920), emphasizes that society secularized increasing...