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Optical Media Piracy Continues to Flourish

The Philippines is rapidly becoming a central battlefield in the increasingly intense campaign against optical media piracy in Southeast Asia; but the country remains ill-prepared to fight this battle. Pirate production capacity in the Philippines continues to increase, as pirate syndicates flee less hospitable jurisdictions; both imports and exports of unauthorized digital copies move freely a...

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Phobias flourish among the elderly

The research did not test for all phobias that have a name, such as arachibutyrophobia (the fear of having peanut butter stick to the roof of one’s mouth). Among the least common phobias found in the survey, however, were trypanophobia (the fear of hypodermic needles and injections) and the fear of dentists. Less than ten percent had these problems, according to the doctoral dissertation by Rob...

Phobias flourish among the elderly

The research did not test for all phobias that have a name, such as arachibutyrophobia (the fear of having peanut butter stick to the roof of one’s mouth). Among the least common phobias found in the survey, however, were trypanophobia (the fear of hypodermic needles and injections) and the fear of dentists. Less than ten percent had these problems, according to the doctoral dissertation by Rob...

Integrated care cannot flourish with broken windows

The theory of the broken windows can explain much of the low incidence of integrated care. This theory of the criminologists (Kelling and Coles w3x) states that the incidence of crime depends more on the context than on personal characteristics of the criminal such as sex, age, race, education and cultural background. The theory got its name from the metaphor of a house with one broken window. ...