bortion has been legalized in Nepal since September 2002 by the 11 amendment to the "Muluki Ain". As per the law, the woman can procure abortion if she wishes, for any pregnancy up to 12 weeks of gestation, and up to 18 weeks if the pregnancy follows rape or incest. Abortion can be done if the fetus has a major congenital anomaly incompatible with life. Abortion can be done if continuation of p...

The aimed of this study is to show misogyny exposed by male character in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing. Atwood unveils patriarchal practice a seemingly perfect marriage. Surfacing tells the story wife who lives under pressure her husband. Using feminist literary approach, novel scrutinized applying close reading method. source data for novel, book reviews, and articles written about author book. ...

This work presents the analysis of the body movement of male participants, while talking with a life-size virtual woman in a virtual social encounter within a CAVE-like system. We consider independent and explanatory variables including whether the participant is the centre of attention in the scenario, whether the participant is shy or confident, and his relationship status. We also examine wh...

In her article "Asian Latino Conflict and Solidarity in Díaz's The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" Paula C. Park responds to the recent interest in Asian Latino/a culture by examining the role of Chinese Dominicans in Junot Díaz's acclaimed novel. She first places her analysis within the historical context of Chinese immigration in the Dominican Republic during the first half of the twent...

Motivation research distinguishes two types of goals: (a) ideals, which relate to people’s hopes, wishes, and aspirations, and (b) oughts, which relate to people’s duties, obligations, and responsibilities. We propose that, in persuasion, the accessibility of ideals increases consumers’ reliance on their subjective affective responses to the ad relative to the substance of the message, whereas ...

Karl Mannheim’s orientations to time can be plotted between subjectivist and objectivist extremes. The latter corresponds to social engineering, while the former offers the context in which Mannheim uses Hobbes’s primaeval war to imagine the chaotic struggle over time that he hopes to escape. Mannheim’s distinctive achievement is ‘dynamic sociology’, an experimental approach marked by the recog...

When a Jehovah's Witness patient rejects transfusion because of his religious doctrine, the anesthesiologist is required to make an important decision. Each doctor must approach his patient respecting the patient's wishes as much as possible, while still taking into account his own ethical criteria, moral judgement of the patient, and knowledge of medicine. This writer briefly examined the basi...

Findings published in Sci Transl Med. 2013 Dec 18;5(216):216ra176 by De la Herrán-Arita et al. suggesting that hypocretin/orexin itself was an auto-antigen recognized by CD4 T cells in narcolepsy were recently withdrawn. Similarly, findings that molecular mimicry with specific sequences of pH1N1 had occurred have not been successfully confirmed. As a result, the Sci Transl Med. paper was withdr...