The majority of health problems encountered in association with travel stem from preexisting, perhaps latent, illness in the individual which may be exacerbated by the rigours and hazards of travel. It is essential that the advising physician understands the hazards that are likely to be encountered during travel in order that they may develop informed decisions regarding fitness for travel and...

A species of Galápagos tortoise endemic to Española Island was reduced to just 12 females and three males that have been bred in captivity since 1971 and have produced over 1700 offspring now repatriated to the island. Our molecular genetic analyses of juveniles repatriated to and surviving on the island indicate that none of the tortoises sampled in 1994 had hatched on the island versus 3% in ...

This article focuses on the repatriation policy of Polish state toward co-ethnics residing in some post-Soviet countries. Its main goal is to answer question: Why has this been unsuccessful? Based existing literature, legislation and official documents, draws upon approach laid down by Olga Zeveleva (2014), exploring two spheres within program: ideological practical. The key argument that failu...

The Maisons Tropicales are three prefabricated housing structures designed by Jean Prouvé. Fabricated in France, they were transported to and assembled Brazzaville Niamey, then part of the French colonies, around 1950. Their design was tied closely belief so-called civilizing enlightening power European modernist and, thereby, also colonial agenda. In early 2000s, an American collector, Robert ...

This paper examines the role of reconstruction assistance in Cambodia from 1990 to 1994. In terms of international cooperation, the case of Cambodia in the restoration period after a long civil war was an unprecedented success as a whole. This is mainly due to the continuous and consecutive runs of assistance, continuum of effective aids, which was appropriate for each stage from humanitarian a...

Department of Genetic Medicine, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Department of Paediatrics and Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Departments of Neurology, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Epilepsy Research Instit...

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis it therefore not experimental science search law but interpretive one meaning. (Geertz 1973, p. 5) In this well-known quotation featured here as epigraph, defined a web meanings humans weave hold themselves up and, can assume, provide panorami...