First, there was the book. Then there was the 1962 film followed by yet another filmic version in 1997 of Nabokov's (1958) infamous best seller Lolita. Simultaneously repulsive and fascinating mediated por­ trayals of young girls as inviting and willing participants in their own sexual exploitation have fueled many a male fantasy. Sexualized images of girls are not only found between the covers...

BACKGROUND The lack of literature on the interactions between indigenous people and the valuable agroforestry trees hinder the promotion of sustainable management of plant resources in West African Sahel. This study aimed at assessing local uses and management of Afzelia africana Sm. in Burkina Faso, as a prerequisite to address issues of domestication and sustainable conservation. METHODS On...

a book reviewing pornographic publications. To study pornographic literature in sufficient depth to write a serious treatise on the subject is brave. Cogniscenti are likely to wonder to each other why one needed to do it. To write a foreword to the book, or even a review, is pretty brave too. Hardly a mess dinner passes without some colleague (usually a surgeon) springing to his feet to tell th...

This article questions· ~hether it is useful to think of problem behavior as caused, and whether causal information about problem behavior is a necessary prerequisite to changing it. Psychoanalytic, behavioral, systemic, and solutionRfocused approaches to the issue are discussed briefly. Taking the perspective that the cause or causes of a particular client's problem behavior cmmot be known, it...

1 Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic. Report of a WHO consultation. World Health Organization Technical Report Series 2000;894:1-253. 2 Storing up problems: the medical case for a slimmer nation. London: Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and Faculty of Public Health, 2004. 3 Egger G, Swinburn B. An “ecological” approach to th...

Abstract Introduction It believed that those who treat sexual medicine conditions enjoy an active robust and dynamic life with their partners. The perception is medical professionals male female problems are more sexually maybe experimental in behavior. perceived they may have a willingness to discuss related topics public forums unrelated work. Objective A random sample survey was conducted as...

In the last few years the problem of the lower boundary of the Cambrian has been dealt with in dozens of works which considered not only the history of the question but all the current material available. It is a subject discussed at many national and international symposia. Although great progress has been achieved in drawing together the points of view on the position of the boundary (compare...

The field of bioinformatics is still relatively young, but there are already many bioinformatics textbooks for a student to choose from. Writing a good bioinformatics textbook is difficult. Comprehensive study of bioinformatics requires Bachelor’s degree-level understanding of at least two kinds: in the molecular/biological and in the computational/mathematical sciences. Both the academic and t...

As I promised in my last notes to discuss the question of over-prescribing, I must now briefly consider this difficult problem-for problem it is to every insurance practitioner who endeavours to satisfy patients and at the same time spend his drug allowance economically. The chief cause of the high cost on the Drug Fund is to be found in the Belfast inhabitants' love for a bottle of medicine. I...