As claimed by many behavioral scientists, designing should be based on the knowledge of interaction between human and environment. Environmental quality is also created in the context in which humans interact with their environment. To achieve such quality, designers should develop appropriate models for explaining this relationship, and this requires an understanding of human nature and the en...

trumpet of praise, and his enemies tried to give him a parting kick. We have nothing unkind to say of Sir George. True, lie once insulted the Calcutta doctors grievously by insinuating that they made false returns of their earnings. He was taken to book promptly and sharply on this account at the time. He was able to show that he was misled by statistics and made a frank and generous amende. Th...

Mr P C Clifford, consultant in general and vascular surgery at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol died suddenly on 21st February 1989 aged 39. Peter Campbell Clifford was born in December 1949 in Ruislip, Middlesex and was educated at the Royal Masonic School in Bushey. He studied medicine at Bristol University graduating MB ChB in 1973. After house jobs at Frenchay and Southmead hospitals he was appoi...

The evidence in the demographic and family planning literature of the range and diversity of the barriers to fertility regulation in many developing countries is reviewed in this article from a consumer perspective. Barriers are defined as the constraining factors standing between women and the realistic availability of the technologies and correct information they need in order to decide wheth...