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Cultural Productions Through Resistance: An Introduction to Section I

Building on cultural psychology and taking inspiration from the George Simmel’s work, this introduction considers resistance as an act of human and societal creativity and thus as developmental at its core. Resistance can be local, such as fleeting moments in one person’s life, or a collective and historical revolt. The chapters in this section introduce this variety.

WORLD VIEW Current estimates of blindness in India

Background: Evidence based planning has been the hallmark of the blindness control programme in India. A nationwide survey was undertaken in 1999–2001 to document the magnitude and causes of blindness. Methods: One district each in 15 populous states was covered. 25 clusters were randomly selected in each district and all individuals aged 50 years and above were enumerated. Presenting and best ...

An XML View of the "World"

The paper presents ”Any Input XML Output” (AIXO), a general and flexible software architecture for wrappers. The architecture has been designed to present data sources as collections of XML documents. The use of XSLT as extraction language permits extensive reuse of standards, tools and knowledge. A prototype developed in Java has been effectively proven in several case studies. The tool has al...

An Introduction to the World Wide Web

An introduction to the World Wide Web.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Anesthesiologists are increasingly utilizing the Internet for personal and professional purposes. Without guidance, the task of searching the Internet for information may be time-consuming and frustrating. This article includes a basic introduction to the Internet with suggestions and guidelines for accessing information resources. Future articles will address locating...