Since antiquity, mental illnesses have proven challenging for individuals suffering with them, for families who wish to support them, and for communities in which they live. Evolution in the development of community services and supports has been predicated on the understanding or interpretation of mental illness, aided by acceptance and innovation, but often anchored in ignorance, stigma, and ...

Qualitative evaluation was carried out to understand the perceptions of the students taking a course entitled “ Tomorrow ’ s Leaders ” at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Based on the refl ections of 189 students, results showed that most informants used positive descriptors to describe the course. When the informants were invited to name a metaphor that could stand for the course, the rel...

This paper introduces a 3D rendering engine that combines rasterization and ray tracing techniques to approximate global illumination in real-time. Namely, direct and indirect diffuse illumination are generated with state of the art illumination techniques processed on the GPU, including a new sky lighting technique that we propose to simulate realistic ambient lighting for outdoor environments...

We represent arbitrary smooth curved 3D shapes by a discrete set of HOT curves where a surface admits High Order Tangents. These curves determine the structure of the image contours and its catastrophic changes, and there is a natural correspondence between some of them and monocular contour features such as in-ections and bitangents. We present a method for automatically constructing the HOT c...

Holiday in Mexico: Critical Refl ections on Tourism and Tourist Encounters. Edited by Dina Berger and Andrew Grant Wood. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. xv + 393. $24.95 paper. $89.95 cloth. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic. By Amalia L. Cabezas. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. Pp. xii + 218. $24.95 paper. Negotiating Paradise: U....

in this study, as for the re-casting, surface alloying and re-solidification layer of this alloys at the work piece level machining with wire electro discharge machining (wedm), changes of surface micro hardness with changes of operational parameters has been studied. therefore, study shows using surface alloying phenomena with the diffusion of wire material into the machined surface and select...

wound healing in the skin depends upon the availability of appropriate trace metals as enzyme cofactors and structural components in tissue repair. the present study is a part of a series of experimental investigations to examine the influence of bentonite on skin wound healing. surgically induced skin wounds in 48 young adult male rats were exposed topically to bentonite (12 round wound and 12...