‘Guru’ devotion in India: Socio-cultural perspectives and current trends

Ukraine crisis: Trends and Perspectives

Thecrisis in Ukraine has become a tragedy, as is evidenced by the thousands ofpeople who have been killed, and hundreds of thousands of refugees. It willalter the future of Ukraine, Europe, Eurasia and possibly the world. The crisisbegan in the fall of 2013 as a public response to the authorities’ ill-advisedpolicy and the greed of the elite. However, clumsy assistance provided byconcerned «par...

Socio-cultural Perspectives on Object-oriented Learning

One of the central objectives of project COOL is to explore critical aspects associated with learning (and teaching) object-oriented concepts. This objective will be pursued by bringing forth the heritage of Kristen Nygaard and the Norwegian approach to object-orientation. The project will develop learning material based on this work and intends to make the material available to the object-orie...

Mobile Agent Technology: Current Trends and Perspectives MOBILE AGENT TECHNOLOGY: CURRENT TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES

New technologies are required to face new scenarios due to the fast spread of the Internet. The paper surveys the current trends of the emerging mobile agent technology. In a high-connected world, agents are the active entities, which roam across network nodes on behalf of their senders. We show some applications that can take advantages from the mobile agent approach. The paper presents the re...

Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating: Socio-Cultural and Familial Perspectives

Associate Professor Yael Latzer, DSc, Associate Professor Daniel Stein, MD and Professor Joav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Director, Institute for the Treatment and Study of Eating Disorders, Division of Psychiatry, Rambam, Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. affiliated with the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Siences, Haifa University, Israel. Email:[email protected] Director, Pediatric Ps...

Gendered Drugs and Medicine. Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives.