abstract: both estrangement and alienation press in certain mental and physical complications in man’s life and force him to experience mental deficiency, and feel a lack of positive communal or individual sense of belonging. however, the jahili sense of these terms is quite different from their modern application. in the jahili period, old age and senility are the main reasons for such inconve...

KELLY MELILLO-SWEETING, Dolphin Communication Project, PO Box 711, Old Mystic, Connecticut 06372-0711, U.S.A.; STEPHEN D. TURNBULL, Biology Department, University of New Brunswick, PO Box 5050, Saint John, New Brunswick E2L 4L5, Canada; TRISTAN L. GUTTRIDGE, Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation, South Bimini, Bahamas and School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10...

oday’s interest in a diverse group of scientifically unproven therapies, collectively referred to as alternative or complementary medicine, has brought increased attention to culturally based therapeutic practices, including acupuncture and other aspects of traditional Chinese medicine. Mystic and ancient healing practices are worthy of study, both for their historical interest and because they...

Antimicrobial surveillance may be defined as a systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of data that may be used to identify resistance trends and assess the need for intervention (2). In 1988 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published guidelines for evaluation of surveillance systems for antimicrobial resistance (7), and an American Society for Microbiology task force (...