In this paper we analyse the word frequency profiles of a set of works from the Shakespearean era to uncover patterns of relationship between them, highlighting the connections within authorial canons. We used a text corpus comprising 256 plays and poems from the 16th and 17th centuries, with 17 works of uncertain authorship. Our clustering approach is based on the Jensen-Shannon divergence and...

Introduction Over the past several years little has been reported regarding the ethics of biomedical research among prisoners. It appears that, following a spate of reports about egregious transgressions of canons of ethics by clinicians engaged in research in prisons, regulations put in place may have solved the problems. However, the dictum of a Persian Prince who is credited with advising a ...

Psychoanalysis not to be confused with psychology or psychiatry. Psychoanalysis is intended as a theory and a therapeutic technique. As theory would be acceptable if show is true enough; as technique, if shown to be sufficiently effective. But to sustain the claim to truth or claim of efficiency, their ideas and practices must submit the same to the canons of development of pure and applied sci...

S ome 17 years ago, shortly after the 1983 Code of Canon Law was promulgated, CHA asked me to prepare a brief study of the administration of ecclesiastical goods; the resulting article, "Canonical Duties, Liabilities of Trustees and Administrators," appeared in Health Progress in 1985.' Although many of the points made in that article remain valid today, some do not because, in the intervening ...

There is an ongoing inquiry concerning the nature and role of globalization in terms of social processes, economic development, culture and tourism, and last, but not least, as it relates to spatial change. Although globalization has been an active field of research in social sciences, which is reflected by the large number of studies being published on this issue since the early 1990s (Dicken,...

Scholars are of the view that Afrocentricity as an educational, philosophical and theoretical paradigm. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to conceptualise and contextualize schooling in an inclusive education setting toward an Afrocentricindigenous pedagogy. The Afrocentric canons necessitates a more comprehensive approach that goes beyond questions of what is learnt, by whom, and how qui...

The design of environmentally-sensitive products and manufacturing facilities is considered by some members of the industrial community to be one of the current frontiers of engineering practice, while others consider it to be another fad. Here today but gone tomorrow. This paper examines this topic from a biological stance by asserting that humankind’s activities should emulate nature’s flora ...

Every era of technology has, to some extent, formed education in its own image. That is not to argue for the technological determinism of education, but rather that there is a mutually productive convergence between main technological influences on a culture and the contemporary educational theories and practices. Thus, in the era of mass print literacy, the textbook was the medium of instructi...

This chapter addresses one of the foundational issues that confront parents and educators: What is to be done about the moral character formation of children? Few would doubt that raising children of strong moral character is a highly desirable goal for socialization. Most parents would be disappointed if their children entered adulthood with only slight acquaintance with moral norms, dispositi...