She had been a toddy drinker before admission and often asked for drink, saying she would dance if it were given her. She was violent, maniacal at times and indecent in her behaviour; but for years exhibited no signs of disease beyond occasionally placing her hands on her abdomen and saying she had some pain there. On the evening of 2nd September she had abdominal pain and refused food. The nex...

People often use indirect speech, for example, when trying to bribe a police officer by asking whether there might be "a way to take care of things without all the paperwork." Recent game theoretic accounts suggest that a speaker uses indirect speech to reduce public accountability for socially risky behaviors. The present studies examine a secondary function of indirect speech use: increasing ...

The feminist queer theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952–2009) wrote about what it meant to be an “indecent theologian” and claimed that sexual stories from the margins of society can help transform theological issues. What can “indecent theology” mean for the problem of evil specifically as it is addressed in the book of Job? This article will use Althaus-Reid’s creative methodology, which en...

Invasive alien species can have serious adverse impacts on both the environment and the economy. Being able to predict the impacts of an alien species could assist in preventing or reducing these impacts. This study aimed to establish whether there are any life history traits consistently correlated with the impacts of alien birds across two continents, Europe and Australia, as a first step tow...

This intensely human and at times moving document should he read by all psychiatrists, general practitioners, psychiatric social workers, Local Authority Mental Health Committee members and the framers of our new National Health Service. It contains the edited writings of a sufferer from a severe obsessive compulsive state, whose main symptoms are fear of open spaces and a compulsion to indecen...

The study aimed to examine the predisposing factors female students’ susceptibility ill-health in higher educational institutions Benue State. was essentially a descriptive survey research. A total of 180 students from three learning responded self-developed 20 items questionnaire with Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient .65. Results analysisshows that environmental 75.6%, genetic/physiologi...