BACKGROUND The 49-year history of the Teratology Society is reviewed. An abbreviated history is outlined in table form, with listings of the Warkany Lectures, the Continuing Education Courses, and officers of the society. The original article was updated to include the years 2000 to 2010. METHODS A year-by-year description of the events is given, including the scientific and social content of...

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the extent social media is enabling e-democracy in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The study conducts an interpretative case study approach interviewing active social media users, political actors, civil servants, civilians, civil society actors and tertiary students. The study also conducts a content analysis of popular “political social media” Facebook pages i...

The COVID-19 pandemic plunged vulnerable populations and the church in South Africa into a crisis. This article argues that situation of poor people is not an accident but deliberate design powerful therefore closely linked to Africa’s political past. paper traces origins structural vulnerabilities various apartheid laws, including Native Land Act, Group Areas Bantu Education Act. It this shapi...

By December 1958, Canada had admitted almost 38,000 Hungarian refugees, forced to flee their country after Soviet forces crushed the October 1956 uprising. A rich historiography has examined this migration from a range of perspectives, but an analysis women’s actions and attitudes represents uncharted approach. Archival research reveals that Canadian women expressed opinions took on variety rol...

In response to calls by macromarketing scholars, this article introduces transformative branding demonstrate how branding—a process traditionally conceptualised at the firm level achieve marketing management outcomes—can contribute both market and societal systems. We define as a dynamic capability deployed firms prosocial facilitate stakeholder co-created brand meanings that draw on hybrid soc...

the islamic fundamentalism which turned into a major social course in many arab countries in 1980s, has inspired a wide spectrum of theoretical analyses. in this article we have attempted to evaluate this course by the method of discoursive analyse. despite many dissimilarities that differentiate islamic fundamentalism from other political , and even religious reformist, movements regarding met...

in this paper a new strategy is proposed to design a fixed-structure robust controller for a flexible beam.  robust controller designed by the conventional  loop­ shaping method is not appropriate for a beam because of its high order and complicated form. fixed-structure  loop shaping control in conjunction with particle swarm optimization (pso)algorithm  is used to overcome this drawback. the ...

In 1958, Corbu advocated a ‘new architecture’ for a ‘new man’. The omnipresence of the architect creating spaces to model a society led to architects building many sins. After that the influence of architecture in the lives of its inhabitants began to be a subject ignored. A lot of contemporary architecture limited itself to the production of design or service to capital of the day. In 19...