The object of this study is to explore the relationship between 'home' and decline ethnic identity in female characters Bharati Mukherjee's collection short stories Darkness (1985). This paper argues that while it generally accepted diaspora entails a questioning sense belonging (Kennedy, 2014: 12), for Mukherjee, "the price immigrant willingly pays, exile avoids, trauma self-transformation" ("...

Objectives 'Sleeping beauties', i.e. publications that are not cited for a long while, present interesting findings in science. This study analysed the citation trends of sleeping beauties in paediatric research. Methods The study used bibliometric software to analyse the papers citing sleeping beauties in paediatric research, to understand the context in which paediatric sleeping beauties were...

Ours is a smaller world than that of previous generations. Given humankind's insatiable desire to change places for all kinds of reasons and through all kinds of routes, clinicians in developed countries are increasingly exposed to diseases that used to be considered " exotic. " Cases of African trypanosomiasis, the archetype of such diseases ever since Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, are no...

Night time rectal temperature recordings were made from 103 infants sleeping in their own home in different sleeping positions. In most cases sleeping position was verified by video monitoring throughout the night. In the period before an adult-like night time body temperature pattern appeared there was no significant effect of sleeping position upon night time body temperature, in line with pr...

In the present study, linkages were examined between parental behaviors (maternal practices) at bedtime, emotional availability of mothering at bedtime, and infant sleep quality in a cross-sectional sample of families with infants between 1 and 24 months of age. Observations of maternal behaviors and maternal emotional availability were conducted independently by 2 sets of trained observers who...

The proposed model, by incorporating both 1) banker screening of new issues and 2) costly evaluation by investors, is the first to admit endogenous double-sided information production. It demonstrates a nontrivial link between these two sides: the banker wishes to structure a sale conducive to investor research because selling to an uninformed pool would result in his own shirking. One applicat...