The subject is divided below under different heads and sub-heads with a view, to simplification. and in the hope that the simplification will help in -organizing maternity and child welfare work in railway areas. This subject is gaining great importance since India has attained her freedom. R^intly a symposium on maternal and child health^Work in India was opened for four days on 30th December,...

Over the past ten years in England (outside London) both bus patronage and bus kilometres have fallen and continue to fall. The decline in bus kilometres has largely arisen from withdrawal of commercial services, which has not been wholly offset by increases in supported services despite increases in Government support for the bus industry to prederegulation levels in real terms (DfT, 2006a). I...

The authors propose that the semantic differential, an attitudinal scaling device, be employed by retailers and consumer service institutions to identify factors underlying consumer patronage decisions. Three specific areas of application described are (I) just prior to opening a new store, [2) shortly after a new store has opened, and (3j once a store has reached a stage of relative maturity. ...

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses the stigma still suffered by people with mental health disorders and whether a recently launched campaign can help challenge it.

This paper examines the relationship between the legislature and the public administration in postwar Italy (understood as the period from about 1948 through 1994). Italian public administration is normally characterized as poorly designed and ine±cient. A principal-agent framework would lead one to believe that political control of the bureaucracy was inadequate in Italy, and that extensive bu...

Libecap 1994a). I challenge these pervasive views by presenting evidence that public pressure was an important and frequently overlooked factor in explaining the adoption of civil service reform in the late nineteenth century. More generally, I argue that members of Congress will enact reforms that diminish their power or restrict their authority only when the public is attentive and united; ot...

. Restoration historiography has so far remained silent regarding the alliance between the exiled royalists and the recusant religious houses in the Low Countries. This article examines the assistance provided to the royalist cause by Abbess Mary Knatchbull of the English Benedictine cloister at Ghent. The correspondence of Charles’s leading advisers, most notably Sir Edward Hyde, revea...

This article is a translation work of some portion of Islami Tibb. written by Rehber Farooqui. It deals with the state of medicine during the reigns of the two kings of Nizam dynasty. viz . Nawab Afzeluddaula Behadur and Nawab Mir Mehboob Ali Khan Behadur , the Fifth and the Sixth Nizams respectively. In this period medical department along with the other departments came into existence. The Un...

The paper is based on the findings of the AAATE / EASTIN workshop “Service Delivery Systems on Assistive Technology in Europe” (held in Copenhagen on May 21-22, 2012, under the patronage of the Danish EU Presidency), on the roadmaps indicated by the previous HEART Study published in 1995 by the European Commission, and on a consensus process within the Board of the AAATE (Association for Advanc...

The phenomenon known as out-shopping behavior (also known as intermarket patronage) is further explored and analyzed within the context of international cross-border consumer behavior. The authors provide an extensive literature review and a set of research hypotheses, as well as a suggested research methodology, and argue that this research will allow for significant contributions to the liter...