Sleep is an activity that occupies approximately one third of our lives and is fundamental to our physical well-being, good mental and emotional health. Sleep need and preferential sleep time varies throughout life but the impairments of unsufficient sleep reach all ages. In general, children sleep 12 hours per day and adults need about 8 hours sleep per night [1]. However, in the modern world ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Non-communicable diseases may reflect an evolutionary mismatch between our human ancestry and modern environments. To explore the mismatch hypothesis for Acne vulgaris, we studied the prevalence and severity of acne in Dogon adolescents in Mali, West Africa. METHODOLOGY We graded the prevalence and severity of acne in 1182 Dogon adolescents aged 11-18 years from nine...

more profitably to an amplification of the authors' views on Part II (Continuing Problems) and Part III (Sources of Help in Treatment and Prevention). The latter in particular compels the interest of the reader by its imaginative suggestions as to the integration of various aspects of mental health; the practising physician, the social worker, the psychologist, the minister of religion, and the...

althusser (1918-1990) argues that there are two ways to maintain power. in order to hold power, the ruling class in a pre-capitalist society depends on repressive apparatuses such as police and military force whereas in a modern capitalist society it chooses to use ideological apparatuses like religion, education or arts. bamdede khomar is the story of eighty years of development in iranian soc...