Impact of Reading Habits on Slum Dwellers: An attempt was made to collect data, about reading for Slum Dwellers through the questionnaire. For many, reading has many benefits which continuously enhance their lives. Their lives are bettered in some or the other way like mentally, spiritually and socially. Also, if they can develop reading habit, slum dwellers will become more confident and self ...

Spiritual fulfillment in the professional role of occupational therapy practitioner is hindered by the ethical consideration of maintaining an objective client-therapist relationship. Objectivity is a disengaged perspective that depersonalizes human relationships. It operates on the tacitly performed, reductionistic assumption that all truth can be structurally represented and verified. However...

To the Editor: Epidemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia prowazekii and transmitted by human body lice. For centuries, it has been associated with overcrowding, cold weather, and poor hygiene. Brill-Zinsser disease is a recurrent form of epidemic typhus that is unrelated to louse infestation and develops sporadically years after the primary illness. Clinical features are similar to, but milder th...

Ernst Mayr, the renowned evolutionary biologist and champion of Darwin, celebrated his 100 th birthday earlier this month by leading a scathing attack on creationism. The evolutionary biologist, acclaimed as one of the most prolific researchers, has no intention of retiring and is shortly to publish new research that dismantles the fashionable creationist doctrine of 'intelligent design'. Altho...

The North-South Institute (NSI) is working on an innovative project designed to bring a special resource into the picture: health professionals who have emigrated from Africa. Through a project called “The Diaspora Giving Back: Strengthening Health Care Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa”, these professionals will have the opportunity to share their expertise, experience and commitment where it’s ne...

focusing on the "uric acid" scares of Alexander Haig. And the last two chapters shepherd the story into the present century, examining two of America's most enduring health fads. On the one hand, cycling (though as many Cassandras lamented its likely brood of pelvic deformities and fallen women as there were zealots for its tonic qualities); on the other, body building, pre-eminently in the "ph...

This paper refers to the study of Voyatzis mansion, in port Aegina, Greece. The building complex consists two discrete structures, which were built at different times (before 1830, 1880 and 1890) have housed either family home or its business work premises. present research is focused on documentation building, was never published, combines architectural form elements within historical context ...