From Our Correspondents

From Our Correspondents

Palm oil plantation waste handling by smallholder and the correlation with the land fire

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: From August to October 2019, several provinces in Sumatra and Kalimantan had faced severe forest fires, causing thousands of citizens to suffer respiratory disorders. This study aims to assess waste handling in palm oil plantation manage by smallholders and the correlation palm oil plantation waste handling with the fireland in Sumatera, especially on...

From Our Correspondents

Hospitals and Approved Societies

CORRESPONDENCE. [Correspondence on all subjects is invited, but we cannot be responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents, who must give name and address as a guaranteo of good faith, but not necessarily for publication. Correspondents are reminded that conciseness greatly facilitates early insertion.] Hospitals and Approved Societies. To the Editor of The Hospital and Health Re...

Defects of the Lunacy Law

(Correspondence on all subjects is invited, but we cannot in any way be responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. No communication can be entertained if the name and address of the correspondent are not given as a guarantee of good faith, buS not necessarily for publication. All correspondents should write on one side of the paper only, and we cannot find space for very long...

The New War Correspondents:

In this paper we examine the information sharing practices of people living in cities amid armed conflict. We describe the volume and frequency of microblogging activity on Twitter from four cities afflicted by the Mexican Drug War, showing how citizens use social media to alert one another and to comment on the violence that plagues their communities. We then investigate the emergence of civic...