The concept of ‘place’ can play a powerful role in understanding how leadership is socially constructed. This article explores the geographic, symbolic and mythic uses place cultivation distinct style around Presidency John F. Kennedy. It focuses on history social learning event that today might be called development programme: ‘Hickory Hill Seminars’ 1961-4, named after mostly held at specific...

This paper develops a model that endogenizes both directed technologies and demography. Potential innovators decide which technologies to develop after considering available factors of production, and individuals decide the quality and quantity of their children after considering available technologies. This interaction allows us to evaluate potentially divergent development paths. We find that...

Article History The paper received on: 12/03/2014 Accepted after peer-review on: 07/05/2014 Published on: 01/06/2014 Robert Frost (1874-1963) is a famous American Poet. As most of his poems are autobiographical in subject, it is evident that he has been mostly influenced by the environment around him in composing his masterpieces. Frost’s themes are very simple in the surface meaning endowed wi...

Asthma is a complex disease because its presentation can vary considerably from patient to patient. The nature of asthma often requires physicians to use a multifaceted approach to ensure optimal outcomes (i.e., control of symptoms) and to prevent asthma exacerbations and increased health care utilization. Evidence-based disease management guidelines have been developed and published to aid in ...

Cortical neurogenesis is a highly stereotyped process in which progenitor cells generate neurons destined for specific cortical layers depending on the timing of cell cycle exit. Previous work has shown that during corticogenesis, progenitors become progressively restricted in their developmental potential. Recent work has uncovered some of the intrinsic mechanisms that underlie this fate restr...

Dr Davies discusses faith healing, its clients and the healing process. He suggests that typical healers often have a total faith in themselves, their working methods and their systems of belief, sometimes born out of their own previous suffering. Patients do well if they have faith (which needs to be distinguished from credulity) in their healers and this faith should be nurtured and valued. S...