Lata 1945-1956, początek nowoczesności [1945–1956, the Beginning of Modernity]

Public health and tropical modernity: the combat against sleeping sickness in Portuguese Guinea, 1945-1974.

Until the establishment of the "Commission for the study of and combat against sleeping sickness" (Missão de estudo e combate à doença do sono) in 1945, underfunded and understaffed health services had not been a priority for the colonial administration in Portuguese Guinea. The Commission not only implemented endemic disease control in the territory under the auspices of metropolitan instituti...

The Paradox of Modernity

Condylomata lata of the eyelids.

A patient with secondary syphilis and extensive condylomata lata on the face, neck, axillae, groins, and genitalia is described. His facial condylomata lata affected the eyelids, medial canthus, nasolabial folds, angles of the mouth, and chin. Condylomata lata of the eyelids has not been described previously.

Hemant Lata

This study investigated the effect of Computer Multimedia instruction on academic achievement of students. Eighty students studying in two sections of 7th class of “The Sunshine Sr. Sec. School, Rohtak” were used as subjects of the study. Multimedia Instruction was utilized in the experimental group while the traditional instruction method was used for the control group. This study utilized the...

The modernity mess

When we had the good fortune to study the Klasies River Mouth Cave remains at the South African Museum in 1989, the isolated partial zygomatic KRM 16651 presented us with a morphometric challenge. The face of the bone appeared quite large, but only a small portion of the inferior border was preserved, and that mostly under the temporal process. No measuring points allowed standard comparisons t...