In European towns of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sounds people heard were very different from those of today. Yet the difference goes much deeper: whereas today we try to escape city noise, for the inhabitants of earlymodern towns sound served as a crucial source of information. It formed a semiotic system, conveying news, helping people to locate themselves in tim...

INTRODUCTION Malaria is a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa where it kills a child under the age of five every 30 seconds. In Cameroon, malaria accounts for 40-45% of medical consultations, 57% of hospitalization days and 40% of mortality among children below 5 years. Community knowledge and practices can enhance the fight against this disease. The aim of the study was to make a...

and interdependencies among printers, publishers, and booksellers and their consumers is accomplished. Several of the papers take an industrylevel view. Canadian scholar Stephen W. Brown (coeditor of volume two of the Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland) contributes a detailed case study of how the Edinburgh papers variously reported and exploited an incest/murder trial in 1765. Through a...

Introduction: India started its Retail Journey since ancient time. In ancient India there was a concept of weekly HAAT, where all the buyers & sellers gather in a big market for bartering. It takes a pretty long times to & step to shape the modern retail. In between these two concepts (i.e. between ancient retail concept & the modern one there exist modern kirana/ mom and pop shops or Baniya ki...

The consumer market can be segmented in various ways. This article concentrates on the calculation of the size of the South African consumer market, segmented by geographical area and demographic characteristics of households. Geographical segmentation is shown by province while the size of the South African consumer market is shown by population group, income group, life stage and life plane. ...

Urban marketplace fires in Ghana are chronic, devasting economic losses and disproportionately impacting informal sector workers. Yet, the scholarly works on urban disasters have focused hydrometeorological other man-made to neglect of fires, particularly challenges risk communication between emergency management agencies In seeking extend emerging but scant work Ghana, this paper analysed fire...

This paper examines the role of democratic practice in contemporary India, going beyond the elementary concern with democratic institutions per se. The foundations of democratic practice are identified as facility (functional democratic institutions), involvement (informed public engagement with these institutions), and equity (a fair distribution of power). The achievements and limitations of ...

The use and implementation of public open street Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance systems in Central Business Districts (CBDs) in South Africa solely for the purpose of crime control (reducing street crime) or crime prevention (deterrence) has in South Africa been a relatively new intervention within the broader context of crime prevention programmes. One of the drawbacks to its im...