Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in India which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the global TB burden. Though India has been gaining success in eliminating TB, the disease still kills 1000 people daily. It is of prime importance to control the TB situation in India. Motivated by the need to explore factors influencing TB, a qualitative study was conducted with 14 doctors and k...

The following paper discusses the challenges faced in designing a flexible, easy-to-use, cross-platform software tool for modeling, analyzing and retrieving meaning from multimedia data. In a project currently being undertaken at the Multimodal Analysis Lab, Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI), at the National University of Singapore (see http://multimodal-analysis-lab.org/), social ...

The insertion of the Brazilian Amazon region into the Brazilian and global economies is one of the challenges faced by the Brazilian economy. Accounting for 60% of the Brazilian territory, the region will play a key role in shaping the future growth and development of the Brazilian economy in the next decades. Energy availability has been the region’s main economic bottleneck. The energy divide...

Y ou can ask just about anyone you know about what they consider to be the most important jobs in our society and you can be sure that they will include nurses and teachers in their list. Such jobs are so important and require such dedication that it is common to refer to them as ‘vocations’ rather than jobs. The dictionary definition of ‘vocation’ uses words like ‘calling’ indicating that not ...

The notion that religion and modemity ate mutuaUy exclusive has been a leading theme oŸ the sociology of religion in France and has been amply confirmed by empirical studies of religious practice, clerical vocations, and parish culture. But recent work on popular religion, post-1968 ideological communities, and new religious movements has caUed the presumption of secularization into question. I...

are much more numerous and much more promising. The backward child has sufficient capacity, not only to make his way in the world socially and vocationally, but also to attain considerable success in many trades, occupations, and vocations in which he possesses special aptitude. He will attain such success if he is given proper vocational training in school in correlation with the literary work...