1. THE PROBLEM AND THE PROGRAMME Only a dreadful prig could seriously condemn secret lust as a form of adultery. However, even someone who claims to be wholly concerned with the things of the mind must have some interest in what he says and does, and these require the occurrence of bodily processes. Realising that so much of what matters to us involves physical events and processes, it is natur...

Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is a light purple flower with reddish colored stigma. It is one of the most expensive spices with a range of quality in its color and aroma. A few key countries involved in saffron commercialization are Spain, Iran, Greece, Morocco, India and China. The main chemical constituents found in saffron are safranal, picrocrocin, crocetin and its glycoside, crocins. These c...

Despite the high rates of depression and anxiety disorders amongst women, the mental health of women is a neglected area, particularly in Africa. This study sought to explore what key stakeholders perceive as the main causes of mental illness in women in Ghana. Using qualitative methods, 81 semi-structured interviews and seven focus group discussions were conducted with 120 key stakeholders dra...

Between 1945 and 2005, nation-states around the world revised their criminal laws on sexual activities. This global reform wave—across countries and domains of sexual activity— followed from the reconstitution of world models of society around individuals rather than corporate bodies. During the post-World War II period, this process rearranged the global cultural and organizational underpinnin...

Charlotte Riddell’s George Geith of Fen Court was published in 1864, just after Wilkie Collins's The Woman White, Ellen Wood’s East Lynne, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret seemed to initiate the sensation genre. It features adultery, bigamy, false identities, forgery, illegitimacy, a fake pregnancy, Riddell is often referred as author by modern critics. However, resists easy ca...

The article analyses the means of linguistic explication frame love affair in Russian language. data came from etymological, explanatory, and derivational dictionaries. concept was described through paradigmatic, syntagmatic, peculiarities words that represent concept. reconstructed as a with following slots: aim, action, agent, counter-agent, patient, evaluation, result. aim research to show h...

The article shows that in Soviet society single motherhood existed a variety of forms. author claims mothers were contradictory figures, as the 1944 Family Law stated non-marital childbearing women officially supported by pro-natal state. Contemporaries usually did not make any difference between war widows with children, unmarried children from cohabitation men, and «real» mothers. According t...

The Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum, or “Collation of the Laws Moses and Romans”, is one most perplexing works late antiquity: a law book compiled in fourth fifth century – date work still matter controversy by an anonymous editor who wanted to show similarity between laws Roman laws. Citing first from Pentateuchus especially books Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy which he believed were wr...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(4) Chastity belts Chastity belts have been the subject of schoolroom and music hall humour for as long as most of us can remember. But did they really exist and for the purpose suggested? My research started in 2004 with the purchase of a steel chastity belt (Figures 1 and 2). Made of solid steel with sharp spikes on the groin area, padlock plus k...