Philippines: Sweet Prison

Prison

This work is evidently an assiduous garnering of facts and figures as expounded during an extensive guided tour of penal instiutions. But a book about prison in which no single prisoner appears as a creature of flesh and blood is unmistakably a secondhand affair which cannot take much hold of what prison is all about. However, the material is wide-ranging, useful for reference and a guide to of...

Prison staff and the health promoting prison.

PURPOSE This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and organisational culture in a situation where the prison system faces security issues, overcrowding and high levels of ill health among prisoners. DESIGN/...

Philippines, Biology

However, it is certain that later Polynesian voyaging canoes had the technical capability to reach the Americas, and to return. That the Polynesians did indeed reach South America and return is strongly suggested by preserved remains of the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), a South American domesticate, recovered from several prehistoric Polynesian sites (such as the Tangatatau rockshelter on Man...

The Sweet, Sweet Smell of Diacetyl

Chemosensation in C. elegans Worms have a very simple chemosensory system composed of 32 neurons. Despite this simplicity, they are capable of detecting and appropriately responding to a Dallas, Texas 75235-9111 wide range of chemicals (Bargmann et al. Lucretius, one of the early Greek atomists, suggested have shown that chemoattraction to a number of mole-that all substances having odor gave o...

Sex life in prison.