Nancy Spero: Acts of Rebellion

Dum Spiro, Spero

It is my sad editorial duty to acknowledge that Professor David Hadden, previous editor of this Journal died earlier this year. As a previous editor he has his obituary published here and I thank Professor Patrick Bell for rising to this sad task so diligently. David bore his final illness with great dignity, clearly determined that while he was alive, he would live (dum vivimus, vivamus). The ...

Points of Rebellion

Nancy Knowlton

Alexander Sulakvelidze, Chief Scientist at Intralytix and one of its co-founders, says phages are a very safe and natural way of protecting food against bacteria. “The concept of using phages for improving food safety is based on simply applying phages back onto the foods in the right concentration, at the right place, and at the right time,” Sulakvelidze explains. “Thus, applying lytic phages ...

Rape and rebellion.

To cite: Smith L. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2013, 39, 58–59. DEFINITION OF RAPE The Oxford Dictionary gives a definition of the word ‘rape’ as: “late Middle English (originally denoting violent seizure of property, later carrying off a woman by force): from Anglo-Norman French rap (noun), raper (verb), from Latin rapere ‘seize’ ”. This definition shows that rape ha...

SPERO - A Personalized Integrated E-Learning System

One of the most important topics in modern Internet-based multimedia e-learning systems oriented towards teachers, students and learners in general, is the treatment of information in a personalized, easy to use and friendly way. In this framework, the automated extraction of learner profiles from such an e-learning system, in order to offer them personalized educational A/V content and e-cours...