In the twilight years of the twentieth century when we are poised to leap across some kind of a „time-barrier‟ into a new era, some reflection and objective transevaluatory analysis of the higher educational system in the shape of a educational system in the shape of a stock-taking exercise or examining the balance sheet is not only apt but eminently desirable for drawing appropriate lessons fo...

Health conditions and disease environmentsare important for economic outcomes.This paper argues that the main impact of disease environmentson the economic developmentof nations is not due to the direct effect of health conditions on income, but rather because of their indirect effect via institutions. Health does affect income directly, but this can explain only a small fraction of today’s dif...

Psychology in Japan developed gradually since the mid-nineteenth century and the opening of the country after its long feudal period. Foreign cooperation played an important role in this development: Holland, Germany, but especially the U.S are the main countries that hosted japanese students and researchers for further training. Primarily experimental in its origins, psychology became after th...

Certification is the process by which individual practitioners of a profession are deemed competent, by a peer review process, to practice that profession. Criminalistics is a rather young profession, and until the recent publicity occasioned by a myriad of television dramas and documentaries, a rather obscure one. There has been little oversight of the profession and little call for such overs...

Centuries. By Denis Leigh (Pergamon Press. 70s.) Workers in the field of psychiatry are indebted to Dr. Denis Leigh, who has been collecting material on the history of psychiatry since boyhood, for embarking on the "Historical Development of British Psychiatry". Indeed, a work of this nature is aS essential for the student of psychiatry as the study of embryology is to the student of anatomy. T...

Those who study classiication theory, whether it be in the form of statistical pattern recognition, syntactical pattern recognition, or neural approaches to classiication are aware of the recent achievements and advances of their elds. For example names such as Bayes, Fisher, Wald, Fu, and Rosenblatt are well known for their pioneering contributions to classiication theory. However, few are awa...

In the first half of the 20 century, it was generally accepted that myosin and actin are proteins specific for muscle, and muscle contractility is a specific interaction of actin, myosin and ATP. It came as a surprise when in 1954 Hoffmann-Berling reported that water-glycerol extracted amnion fibroblasts contract upon addition of ATP. Figures CM1a and 1b show that the elongated fibroblast cells...