" It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy – it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. "-Sense & Sensibility, by Jane Austen. Sex has always been a topic of interest for the popular media where stories of promiscuous young adults and celebrity pregnancies stimulate...

have shown some success based on protection of habitats such as the Aberdare National Park in Kenya, which has been fenced in completely in a project originally addressed at the needs of rhinos, but which proved also beneficial to elephants (Curr. Biol. (2009), 19, R465). In addition, surprisingly simple measures can be highly effective in avoiding conflict between human and wildlife population...

F a c u l t y M e n t o r

in this book, elizabeth frazer offers a detailed study of the concept of community; and examines political and philosophical communitarianism. more specifically, she analyzes the relationships between communitarianism and interpretivism, social constructionism, locality, family life and finally politics.

Tomoko MATSUZONO MBBS, MRCOG Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong Kam-On KOU MBBS, MRCOG, FHKCOG, FHKAM (O&G) Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong Chung-Fan POON APN, RN, RM, MSc Health Care (Nursing) Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hong Kong Kwok-Yin LEUNG MBBS, MD, FRCOG, FHKA...

background: tissue expanders are devices which are used to create enough skin to form suitable flap in restoration of great skin deficiencies which are not modified initially. the current study aimed at investigating the patients’ satisfaction and the complications such as rupture, hematoma, wound infection, seroma, leakage, chronic pain, and expander expose of internal (implanted under the ski...

this research uses computational modeling to explore another method to increase diesel engine performance while maintaining low pollutant emission levels. previous studies have shown that injection-rate profiles and injector configurations play important roles on the performance and emissions of particulate and nox in di diesel engines. since the most important engine design parameters, includi...

Doctors who discard the placenta after a newly born infant dies or is permanently impaired – seemingly during the birth process – could potentially be throwing away their last chance of a legitimate defence should the angry and grieving parents decide to sue. Prof. Colleen Wright, an anatomical patho logist at the National Health Laboratory Services in Port Elizabeth, had specialists and GPs pa...