Carl Schmitt’s Die Diktatur (1921) and Politische Theologie (1922) have been widely discussed in political science constitutional law literature. His distinction between commissarial sovereign dictatorships makes these works indispensable references for studying autocracy. In the context of COVID-19 pandemic crisis, his idea decisionism, which he summarized adage ‘sovereign is who d...

“Sarab rog ka aukhad naam” (“The recitation of God’s name cures all diseases”) is a quotation from the Guru Granth Sahib —the Sikh Holy Book— highlighting Sikhism’s perspective on illness, referring to as primary source guidance regarding issues health. However, in decades since this was first written, burden chronic illness community has become more severe. Notably, cardiovascular disease (CVD...

Stable access to affordable quality housing is a core feature of public health principles and practices. In this report, we provide an update on the research project “Mapping Public Housing: A Critical Review State-subsidised Residential Architecture in Portugal (1910–1974)” (MdH), developed between 2016 2019 at Faculty University Porto (FAUP) Portugal. This funded (PTDC/CPC-HAT/1688/2014) brou...

There has been a steady growth in recent decades in Nepal in health and health services research, much of it based on quantitative research methods. Over the same period international medical journals such as The Lancet, the British Medical Journal (BMJ), The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care and many more have pu...

The purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of EFL learners in an academic writing task. Two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...

Abstract Pastoral practices throughout the world are in a state of flux, and Gaddi pastoralism India’s Western Himalayas is no exception. Often literature common parlance, these predicted to end with current generation practising pastoralists. For Gaddi, an agro-pastoral community located hill Himachal Pradesh India, gloomy predictions have remained persistent over decades. Irrespective claims,...