It has become a commonplace for reviews of books on consciousness to ask: Do we really need another book on consciousness? But in reviewing Igor Aleksander's latest book, I can brush this question aside, as there are relatively few books on its particular sub-topic: machine consciousness (other notable exceptions include, e.g. [1,2]). 'Machine consciousness' is perhaps a misleading term – it co...

English language teaching (ELT) writing practitioners have long attempted to improve EFL/ESL learners’ competence in writing with recourse to either instruction or feedback. Likewise, researchers have, to date, mainly focused on either of these treatments to enhance language learners’ composing ability. Which treatment leads to more significant improvements is, however, unclear. Moreover, of th...

Extant historical writings focused on Human Resource Development have generally centered white perspectives and failed to substantively grapple with the experiences of racially minoritized people, leaving field without an adequate foundation from which address recent calls for racial inclusivity. This paper begins process addressing these concerns by analyzing autobiographical Fredrick Douglass...

Cet article analyse un projet de pratique sociale, Freeze Frame: Room for Living (1982), par rapport à sa situation pédagogique. Pour la performance culminant dans magasin meubles, Suzanne Lacy et Julia London ont réparti, en dix-sept cercles, cent-vingt participantes qui étaient initialement « figées », pour passer au mode conversation leur signal. Le se proposait surmonter l’aliénation du pub...

Consciousness in experimental subjects is typically inferred from reports and other forms of voluntary behaviour. A wealth of everyday experience confirms that healthy subjects do not ordinarily behave in these ways unless they are conscious. Investigation of consciousness in vegetative state (VS) patients has been based on the search for neural evidence that such broad functional capacities ar...

French literature has shown an enduring fascination with the social figure of the doctor. In Jules Romains' amusing play Knock (1922), and in its later film version (1951), the doctor as deceiver returns to centrestage with a flourish. Molière's seventeenth-century figures were mostly quacks and mountebanks; Knock is something new: he is a health messiah. By enforcing a mental and social hygien...

From the inception of campaign planning, the Managers’ strategy was to attain the $11,617,673 goal through securing a combination of public and private funding as well as through the sale of Historic Tax Credits and paintings unrelated to the Library’s mission. As private fund raising quietly progressed during the Major Gifts Phase, other significant revenue development activities were also und...

global forum for non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) and a wide range of other partners to share information and approaches on the elimination, prevention and control of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The primary mission of the network is to coordinate the activities of members in an attempt to bridge gaps in funding and programme support to endemic countries. The NTD NGDO N...

To transform donations "in kind" into cash, charities of all sizes use auctions and raffles. Despite this, neither the theory nor the practice of efficient fund-raising and, in particular, charity auctions has received sufficient attention from economists, especially the fact that participation in fundraisers is endogenous. We describe, in detail, the design and implementation of an experiment ...

The article describes progress and challenges in incorporating a gender perspective into the Cuban health system. Results obtained thus far indicate progress in raising consciousness and in concentration on the interaction between biological and social factors, in particular recognizing gender as a social determinant of health. Weaknesses are also identified, and recommendations made for introd...