ing the content from these accounts, without considering style or possible limitations in the writer’s insight, not only discards valuable data, but must lead to questionable conclusions. What are we to make, for example, of an autistic person’s comment that his mental processes or sensations are radically different from other people’s when he is likely to have severely impaired insight into ot...

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...

1 School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 Geography, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, 3 Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 4 Arctic Technology Centre, Technical University of Denmark, Kemitorvet, Lyngby, Denmark, 5 Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 Ge...

Honourable Chai rman, Respected Seniors, Esteemed Friends, Ladies and Gent lemen! Before I proceed with the subject of my today's talk, I would liKe to thank all of you and particularly the Awards Committee of the Indian Psychiatric Society for bestowing this honour upon me. I must say that , by selecting a relatively unknown person like me-working in a remote place like Jhans i the Committee h...

sane and in the insane; dark and doubtful sayings are avoided ? sin, and shame,; and sorrow, and weakness, and waywardness are confessed; there is a cry for help and forgiveness ; and we have often listened with awe and reverence to the last words of the dying lunatic as they assumed the form, the infantile but expressive phrase which had been taught while the child knelt by a mother's knee. A ...

BACKGROUND The usefulness of distress screening in cancer inpatient settings has rarely been investigated. This study evaluated a brief distress screening of inpatients in a breast cancer centre and a gynaecological cancer centre. PATIENTS AND METHODS Hospitalised patients with breast or gynaecological cancers were screened with the Distress Thermometer. Patients who scored above the cut-off,...

Geographic environment is a combination of natural and cultural environments under which humans survive. Virtual Geographic Environment (VGE) is a new multi-disciplinary initiative that links geosciences, geographic information sciences and information technologies. A VGE is a virtual representation of the natural world that enables a person to explore and interact with vast amounts of natural ...