Many people with epilepsy (PWE) in resource-poor countries do not receive appropriate treatment, a phenomenon referred to as the epilepsy treatment gap (ETG). We conducted a qualitative study to explore the reasons for this gap and to identify possible interventions in Kilifi, Kenya. Focus group discussions (FGDs) were carried out of PWE and their caregivers. Individual interviews were conducte...

Although schools have been identified as important settings in which young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH) can be promoted, there has been limited research into the role of teachers in delivering sex education programmes. This paper describes findings from a qualitative study of teachers’ beliefs and attitudes towards young people’s SRH in a Ugandan secondary school, and discusses...

Scorpion envenomation is a major public health problem in tropical and sub-tropical countries, especially in Africa, MiddleEast, Latin America and India. At times it poses a significant lifethreatening acute time limiting cardiovascular emergency. Irrespective of different species of scorpion, similar cardiovascular effects are reported. Irrespective of the understanding of the pathophysiology ...

A psychoticism questionnaire was designed constituting 110 questions framed on the basis of the following constructs: desocialization, paranoia, thought disorder, depression, perceptual disturbance, superstitions and mania. In the initial tryout, it was administered to 40 psychotics, 40 neurotics and 40 normals and 40 items inadequately discriminating between psychotics and normals/neurotics we...

When people try to obtain a desired event and this outcome occurs independently of their behavior, they often think that they are controlling its occurrence. This is known as the illusion of control, and it is the basis for most superstitions and pseudosciences. However, most experiments demonstrating this effect had been conducted many years ago and almost always in the controlled environment ...

It is a surprise to see how, as years go by, two activities so germane to our discipline, (1) the creation of quality software, and (2) the quality teaching of software construction, and more generally of Computer Science, are surrounded or covered, little by little, by beliefs, attitudes, “schools of thought,” superstitions and fetishes rarely seen in a scientific endeavor. Each day, more peop...

This study seeks to examine (mis) representations of otherness in British detective fiction and focuses on the travelling gypsies as criminal other “The Case Missing Hand”, a story published 1895 Chronicles Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison. In line with its objectives, firstly introduces characteristics Victorian then provides literary analysis crime presumed murder victim, an exoticized settin...