Reports from Societies

Trend Analysis of Lending Performance of Erode District Central Cooperative Bank

The central cooperative banks occupy a crucial position in the pyramidal structure of agricultural cooperative banking system. They from the backbone of the agricultural credit structure and provide the vital line between the primary agricultural societies and the state apex cooperative bank functioning at the state level. The study is based on secondary data obtained from annual reports of EDC...

PReS-FINAL-2268: Sarcoidosis in children seen at the pediatric rheumatology clinics of two referral hospitals in Cape Town, South Africa

Introduction Sarcoidosis is a relatively uncommon condition in children. Reports from multiracial societies such as the USA indicate that sarcoidosis is more common in Africans than other racial groups. However, few reports of cases of childhood Sarcoidosis have been published from sub-Saharan Africa to shed light on the burden of sarcoidosis and the demographics and clinical presentation of ch...

Hoarding of animals: an under-recognized public health problem in a difficult-to-study population.

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to better characterize the problem of hoarding, or pathological collecting, of animals. METHODS The author summarized data from a convenience sample of 54 case reports from 10 animal control agencies and humane societies across the country. RESULTS The majority (76%) of hoarders were female, and 46% were 60 years of age or older. About half of the h...

A Structural Functionalist Conception of Artificial Agent Societies

This paper reports a case of the successful application of sociologic theories in the area of Distributed Artificial Intelligence. We argue in favour of a rather deep conceptual transfer of sociologic models: it is shown how analytical theories from the school of structural functionalism, aimed at explaining observed phenomena in human societies, can be put “upside down”, so as to come up with ...

Reports from Societies

DRAFT, FOR COMMENTS ONLY NOT FOR CITATION Adapting to climate change in developing countries: institutional and policy responses for urbanizing societies