This article provides a poststructural reading of the character Wesley in Nicola Barker’s 2002 novel Behindlings, which is broadly informed by Jean-Luc Nancy’s thoughts on being and community Jacques Derrida’s thinking khōra, as well other established paradigms. It contends that simultaneously engages with these ideas exceeds them. void-at-the-heart his own “philosophy”: ‘He was hollow. He empt...

BACKGROUND Excessive infant crying, though usually benign, can be very troublesome to parents with unwanted consequences on the child. Previous reports had shown cultural and racial differences in it's perception by mothers. We undertook this study to determine the prevalence of excessive crying in our area of practice and also determine associated factors. METHOD This was a cross sectional, ...

This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a “European economy” with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate and educational investments are analyzed both under full certainty and with income risks facing the ...