OBJECTIVE To test whether high levels of reported pride are associated with subsequent falls. DESIGN Secondary analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) dataset. SETTING Multi-wave longitudinal sample of non-institutionalised older English adults. PARTICIPANTS ELSA cohort of 6415 participants at wave 5 (baseline, 2010/11), of whom 4964 were available for follow-up at wav...

What is most striking about Edward Bond’s plays his unconventional representation of visible forms violence and insanity. His deeply probe political, economic, societal norms values in provocative thought-provoking ways for which he has often been compared to such contemporary British playwrights as Pinter, Brenton, Osborne, Arden who profusely use cruelty their works. This article draws on Jul...

The aim of the present research was to investigate the interpersonal effects of pride and shame expressions amongst opponents and teammates in a soccer penalty scenario. Across a series of experiments using the point-light method, pride and shame expressions exerted strong effects upon observers' anticipated emotions, associated cognitions, and performance expectations. Using the Implicit Assoc...

Global statistics on leprosy are published annually in the Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) of the WHO, most recently on 11 August 2006. They make challenging reading, including between the lines : : : .! The recent report begins with a comment that the new Global Strategy for Further Reducing the Leprosy Burden and Sustaining Leprosy Control Activities (plan Period: 2006– 2010) has been ‘en...

The influence of the 1918 pandemic was overshadowed by catastrophe First World War. current COVID-19 leads academic attention to how shaped literature that period. Elizabeth Outka’s book brings history into study modernism. vast scale a sudden outbreak disease had made decent burials and mourning very difficult. Outka argues Waste Land mourns deaths during pandemic. traumatic experience can als...