Adolescent egocentrism can be divided into two separate forms: the imaginary audience and the personal fable. The first relates to the adolescent living life believing he is constantly being watched and judged by others, and that others are as concerned with his appearance and behaviour as he himself is.[1] The personal fable results in the adolescent perceiving himself as special and unique, b...

Some eighteen portraits are now recognized of Leonardo in old age, consolidating the impression from his bestestablished self-portrait of an old man with long white hair and beard. However, his appearance when younger is generally regarded as obscure, although he was described as very beautiful as a youth. Application of the principles of metric iconography, the study of the quantitative analys...

In his analysis of Seneca?s notion stultitia, Michel Foucault suggests that we will not fully understand pedagogical-therapeutic strategy if exclusively follow the traditional and literal translation term as ?nonsense?, ?folly?, or ?ignorance?. According to description, figure stultus is best understood a ?raw material?, devoid an appropriate relation itself, but more less suitable for formatio...

The gender information in written Chinese third person pronouns is not symmetrically encoded: the character for "he" (, with semantic radical , meaning human) is used as a default referring to every individual, while the character for "she" (, with semantic radical , meaning woman) indicates females only. This critical feature could result in different patterns of processing of gender informati...

Dear Sir, Delhi witnessed the golden moment of amalgamation of four Indian oncological societies—Indian Association of Surgical Oncology, Indian Society of Medical and Pediatric oncology, Association of Radiation Oncologists of India, and Indian Society of Oncology in the form of Indian Cancer Congress (ICC) 2013. In the academic sanctity of ICC, it was absolutely disheartening to see a few del...

Abstract In the model of group identification, or qualification problems, Samet and Schmeidler (2003) provide two axiomatic characterizations of the ``liberal'''' decision rule (a person is socially qualified as a member of a collective if and only if he qualifies himself). They impose monotonicity, non-degeneracy, and independence axioms, which are standard in this model, together with either ...