Bray John, Maurer Petra & Butcher Andrea (eds), Ladakh. Historical Perspectives and Social Change

John Barresi INTENTIONAL RELATIONS AND DIVERGENT PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING

It is a common notion that we understand ourselves better than we understand other people. It is also apparent why we think this is so. After all, we know much more about ourselves than about others, including our memories, our present intentions, and our future goals. And we care more about ourselves than we care about others, so we are more likely to attend to and interpret our own activities...

Climate Change over Leh ( Ladakh ) , India

Mountains over the world are considered as the indicators of climate change. The Himalayas is comprised of five ranges viz., Pir Panjal, Great Himalayas, Zanskar, Ladhak and Karakorum. Ladakh region lies in the northern most state of India, Jammu and Kashmir, in the Ladhak range. It has a unique cold-arid climate and lies immediately south of the Karakorum range. With scarce water resources, su...

Historical Profiles and Perspectives

Giardiasis is a neglected disease that spreads worldwide from the Arctic [1] to the Tropics [2]. It affects nearly 2% of adults and 6% to 8% of children in developed countries worldwide. Nearly 33% of people in developing countries have had giardiasis [3]. The disease is caused by a binucleated flagellated protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia (synonyms: G. intestinalis and G. duodenalis) that inh...

Review of Lars Johanson and Christiane Bulut (eds) Turkic-Iranian Contact Areas. Historical and Linguistic Aspects

Personal and Historical Perspectives

Frederick Akbar Mahomed was an Englishman of mixed Indian and Irish descent who made substantial contributions to the study of high blood pressure in a short professional life from 1872 to 1884. He was strongly influenced by the previous work of Richard Bright on kidney disease at his own hospital (Guy's Hospital in London) and by the contemporary pathological studies of Gull and Sutton on arte...