In this context the extended family is defined as a group of relatives comprising more than an immediate family who live in ?ne, two or more households and who see each other every day or nearly every day. Within this group the old person, particularly the old woman, is supported to the end of life. The remarkable thing about old age is that it does not signify abrupt change but emphasises the ...

Declaration I hereby declare that this thesis has not been submitted, either in the same or different form, to this or any other university for a degree. Acknowledgements I am very grateful to my supervisors Hilary Buxton and Inman Harvey for their constant guidance and support. They followed the whole process very closely and suggested useful ideas and insights all the way long. The frequent a...

We present a young boy whose mild ataxia and abnormal eye movements repeatedly deteriorated with fever, making him unable to sit or walk during fever episodes. SNP-array analysis identified a 202 kb deletion in chromosome 13q33.1 containing the fibroblast growth factor (FGF)14 gene, which is associated with spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) 27. This 13q deletion was also present in the proband's mot...

A young nurse, undertaking a working holiday in Australia, sees a 5-year-old Aboriginal girl while doing a locum in a remote coastal community of the Northern Territory. The young girl has been brought in by her grandmother because she has discharge coming from her eyes. From the notes, the nurse sees that the child has had multiple presentations for ear and skin infections but is otherwise wel...

We have studied 27 triads of mother, daughter and grandmother for possible genetic influence on distal and proximal forearm bone density, measured by single photon absorptiometry. We found a significant correlation of bone density at the proximal forearm between the mothers and grandmothers (r = 0.499, P < 0.01). There was also a weak correlation between proximal forearm bone densities of mothe...

The encoding of information in the primate inferior temporal visual cortex, hippocampus, orbitofrontal cortex, and insula is described. All these areas have sparse distributed graded firing rate representations. The firing rate probability distribution is close to exponential. The information increases approximately linearly with the number of neurons. Consistent with this relative independence...

The article aims to examine the initial phase of marriage Jan Zamoyski with Griseldis Báthory, issue change bride’s name, and problems caused by newlyweds’ difference faith. Despite plans king Stephen hetman Zamoyski, young bride did not become a Catholic. Her upbringing her Protestant mother grandmother overrode political interests Catholic male relatives.