Eighty-nine years ago, neurosurgery emerged as a new specialty, recognized by the American College of Surgeons in October 1919. By 1920, Harvey Cushing and 10 others formed the Society of Neurological Surgeons, today’s Senior Society. Since then, neurosurgery has expanded exponentially, with technical devices, surgical procedures, and practice standards undreamed of by these founders. Every new...

Shifting the focus from fear, guilt, and indignation related to deteriorating environmental quality, the authors hypothesized that people who see greater potential for restorative experiences in natural environments also do more to protect them by behaving ecologically, as with recycling or reduced driving. University students (N = 488) rated a familiar freshwater marsh in terms of being away, ...

If you were to scan the critiques of modern medicine offered by various thinkers, you would glean their despair over the declining societal consciousness. This concert of painful perspective is a pointer to the overall decline in social and medical ethics, neurosurgery not excluded. This piece is an attempt at keeping the gentle flame of neurosurgical ethics burning steady and bright, against t...

A case-control study was carried out to determine factors associated with HIV infection among pregnant hilltribe women who attended the antenatal clinics of six hospitals in northern Thailand (Mae Suai, Wieng Pa Pao, Mae Sai, Mae Chan, Wieng Kaen, Mae Fa Luang, and Chiang Rai hospitals) between 1 January 200531 May 2007. Data were collected using questionnaires and analysis was by univariate (p...

Looks at the sports industry and addresses the current situation for authors seeking to publish in the area of sports marketing. Sports currently represents the eleventh largest industry in the USA. Despite this, there are few mainstream marketing journals willing to publish manuscripts on sports marketing. In an effort to circumvent this problem, some sports marketing authors have `̀ disguised'...

ethical principles are by themselves inadequate to fully specify the ethics of human practices (although they may certainly point the way). It is the nature of practices themselves and the constraints that given practices impose on practitioners that determine the specific ethics of decision making in those practices. The AAMC experts and the AAMC itself presume that the constraints on physicia...

Introduction This article is concerned with the recent rise in popularity of crypto art, term given to digital artworks whose ownership and provenance are confirmed a non-fungible token (NFT), making it possible sell these works within decentralised cryptocurrency art markets. The goal this analysis trace genealogy Dada, an avant-garde movement that originated early twentieth century. My claim ...

Introduction Where children’s television once ruled supreme as a vehicle for sales of kids’ brands, the marketing toys now often hinges on having right social media influencer, many them children themselves (Verdon). As Forbes reported in 2021, pandemic saw an increase spending more time online, following their favourite influencers YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. The importance tapping into pa...

This paper aims to examine the phenomenon of fear of crime and its relationship to print media reportage. Fear of crime as a concept is discussed initially, in order to justify it as a worthwhile area of investigation, and a number of statistics are then examined which show how widespread and serious a problem fear of crime is in modern societies. Following this a literature review encompassing...

There is currently widespread interest in exploring the opportunities to develop learning that can be delivered in three-dimensional multiuser virtual environments (3-D MUVEs). In this paper, I argue for the need to conduct research into the emerging cultures of use in 3-D MUVEs, focussing on the example of Second Life. Drawing on social and cultural studies of 3-D MUVEs, the paper briefly expl...