Editorial: Environmental Engagement and Cultural Value: Global Perspectives for Protecting the Natural World

Guest Editorial: Global Perspective on Environmental Health

The environment is a key determinant of human health, and exposures to toxic chemicals, physical fac­ tors, and pollutants all have a direct impact on the quality of life, the burden of disease, and the outcome of longevity. In the developing world, population growth with urban crowding, the introduction of many environmental pollutants and toxic exposures, and the lack of clear policies to con...

Editorial: Reducing Oral Health Disparities: Social, Environmental and Cultural Factors

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Editorial Protecting Our Science

On 6 June 2013, a court in New York City handed down a decision that calls into question the validity of research that was sponsored by Georgia Pacific (GP) Corporation (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) and published in eight peer-reviewed articles, including two papers published in the Annals of Occupational Hygiene (Sheehan et al., 2011; Berman et al., 2012). While the court did not d...

Editorial – educational networks , educational identities : connecting national and global perspectives *

The brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, active in the last years of the eighteenth century and first part of the nineteenth, are excellent examples of the cosmopolitan scholar and Universalgelehrter (polymath). Wilhelm, a Prussian diplomat and government administrator, is chiefly remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of the world’s languages, as we...