colonial animals sensu stricto. Within a social insect 'colony', individuals share resources — though they aren't physically connected — and are closely related, but not genetically identical. Siphonophores are distinctive because they show the highest degree of division of labor between the individual zooids of any colonial organism. Being a siphonophore is as if you were to bud thousands of c...

It is generally recognized that our teeth are in poor condition, and there is sound evidence to support this common opinion. One must question, however, the statements of those who claim that this condition is becoming worse, as well as of those who hold that it is improving. "Health Service" enthusiasts are likely to see good results coming from their "dental-care" programs, but pessimists are...

number, and only one of them directly applies to doctors. That is in the African possession known as the Tanganyika Territory. It must have progressed far along the pathway of civilization, for it has an income tax law of its own. It may be inferred that doctors are at a premium there, for the attraction is held out to them that they will be charged no income tax on their professional gains. Th...

Drylands cover 40 to 45% of the earth’s land surface and harbour about 38% of people on the planet. The UN has claimed that up to 70% of drylands suffer from desertification, affecting 168 countries globally. This has led to desertification becoming the first globally defined environmental issue. Much has been written about problems with the idea of desertification and how it became such a powe...

Three selective media for differentiation of Klebsiella pneumoniae from Enterobacter aerogenes on the basis of colonial morphology were evaluated. Using methyl violet 2B as a selective agent, strains of K. pneumoniae isolated from urine, fresh water, and fresh produce were tested against other members of Enterobacteriaceae in addition to strains of Aeromonas hydrophila and Pseudomonas aeruginos...

This paper explores the social and political imperatives in the sphere of public policy relating to social justice. In India, the colonial legacy and post-colonial social and political pressures sustained the appropriation of ‘caste’ category in allocating public resources to the backward class of citizens. For several reasons, ‘economic’ category could not be placed in allocating resources. Th...

British colonial policies set the stage for the subsequent balance between state and civil society in Malaysia, including the persistent racial stratification of the public sphere, cross-racial differences in modes of state–society engagement and the focus on development of citizenship skills for some groups and autonomous self-regulation for others. This article explores the vestiges and impli...

The system of higher education now existing in India was originally implanted by the British rulers in the mid-19th century to serve the colonial economic, political and administrative interests, and in particular, to consolidate and maintain their dominance in the country. It was inherited by the state managers after independence (in 1947) as a colonial legacy, and has been expanded phenomenal...

Although archaeological studies of the historic past have long explored the dynamics of European colonialism, broader issues of sexuality, embodiment, commemoration, reproduction, and sensuality have only recently become acknowledged as essential components of the “imperial project.” How can we better appreciate the material implications of human sexuality when we come to interpret these comple...