2012
Volume 8, Number 1
Parkinson’s disease in North Karnataka An epidemiological perspective
By: G.S. KADAKOL, SUYAMINDRA S. KULKARNI, BUSHAN B. KULKARNI, SUJAYENDRA S. KULKARNI, L.V.K.S. BHASKAR, G.M. WALI, DATTA NADGIR, S.V. HIREMATH, P.B. GAI – Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive disorder of the brain. It occurs when certain neurons in substantia nigra die or become impaired. Parkinson’s disease is characterized by progressively increasing stiffness all over…
Prevalence of thinness among 6-12 years rural children of Kharagpur A cross-sectional study in West Bengal, India
By: SUBAL DAS, DEBANITA ADDHYA, FALGUNI CHAKRABARTY – Thinness is one of the biggest problems of children residing in rural or tribal areas in our country then their urban counterparts. Children are in growing age needs more varied nutrient to reach their full growth potential. Any obstruction during this stage leads to impaired physical and…
Provisions and Perceptions of the Hosts in Business at Digha. A Study of Beach Tourism in India
By: KARTICK CHAKRABORTY, DIPANKAR CHATTERJEE, ARNAB DAS – The impact of tourism in a society is a complex and varied subject. It is generally agreed that tourism results in both positive and negative impacts for hosts of tourism destinations. There is a need to study hosts perceptions of tourism because local stakeholders are the ones…
Une hypothèse sur la naissance de l’acte de croire et ses conséquences : et si c’était vrai!
By: ALBERT PIETTE – Cet article propose une hypothèse sur l’origine de l’acte de croire, à partir de la comparaison des sépultures (qui sont contemporaines, entre 50000 et 100000 ans) de l’Homme de Néanderthal et d’Homo sapiens, appelé aussi « Homme moderne ». Une différence importance pourrait résider dans l’absence d’offrandes chez les Néandertaliens alors…
Is Caste System a Kind of Indigenous Knowledge System?
By: ASHOK DAS GUPTA – The Global Knowledge can be broadly disassociated into two types: Indigenous and Modern. Indigenous or Traditional Knowledge traits are scattered worldwide among the folk people. These are oral and undocumented, subjected for loss and rediscovery, outcome of trial and error from informal experimentations during the course of folk life. These…
Perspectives on Health, Health Needs and Health Care Services among Select Nomad Tribal Populations of Rajasthan, India
By: BANDANA SACHDEV – Objective: To study the opinion of select nomad tribal communities of Rajasthan State in India on health, health needs, and health care services. Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 1113 nomadic populations in select districts of Jhunjhunu, Sikar and Churu were undertaken. A perception on regarding various health issues among the study…
Bill-Postings as Pervasive Media Culture. Evidence from Edo Central District of Edo State, Nigeria
By: OSAKUE STEVENSON OMOERA – This study examines the problem of bill-postings as pervasive media culture, using Edo Central District (ECD) of Edo State, Nigeria as a case study. To achieve the set task, it adopts an evaluative methodology. This is complemented by interviews and random photographic snapshots of indiscriminately posted-bills across the district under…
Genetic Sensitivity to Phenylthiocarbamide -Effect on Body Mass Indices and DNA damage
By: GURSATEJ GANDHI, GAZALJIT KAUR, AMANJIT KAUR, NARESH MAHAJAN, JASMEET KAUR – As sensitivity to bitter taste (phenylthiocarbamide [PTC] perception) has been maintained at high frequency worldwide, its use as a potential genetic marker for food preferences and dietary choices and its influence on body weight/adiposity which in turn maybe a contributor to various co-morbidities…
Cameroon’s War: The Fight Against Impunity. A Normative Analysis
Cameroon, Corruption, Globalization, Good Governance, impunity, Rule of Law, Sovereignty, Sustainable DevelopmentBy: THIERRY ONGA – The choice of the resolution of conflict by arbitration conducted by the mediator in the conflict to establish and monitor over time the specific causal relationships between trade, conflict, and rules thus legalizing politics. In other words, legalization would operate over time, a transfer of skills as well as powers to…
Nutritional status of children as indicated by z-scores of the Hmars: a tribe of N.E. India
By: TEMSUTOLA MAKEN, L. ROBERT VARTE – Introduction: In North-East India, many growth studies have been published for the populations of Assam and Meghalaya. However, no study, especially with regard to the nutritional status of the Hmars of Mizoram has been undertaken. So, more growth and nutritional studies are needed to carry out in populations…
The Mead Hall. Notes on the Name of Milan, Italy
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – When I started reading an article by Fumagalli (2008) about the etymology of the name of Milan, the capital of Lombardy as well as the economical heart of Italy, at first I began jotting down notes, only to notice that there was an Ariadne’s thread of symbols. The final result of…
Dream-Land. The mythical skinheads’ communitarianism
By: MARCO MENICOCCI – Skinheads are a kind of subculture2 with well-defined aesthetical, iconographical and ideological connotations, which are deliberately shown and clearly flaunted. Those kind of people can be easily recognized on the basis of their behaviour, clothes, music styles and phrasing, expression. These aspects help Skinheads show their identities to the others and…
Towards a bio-psycho-cultural anthropology of AIDS
By: JACQUES J. ROZENBERG – This paper aims to outline a theoretical framework which could define the bio-psycho-social basis of the representations of the HIV sufferers, regarding the complex relationships between the biologic reality of HIV, its psychic and psychopathologic manifestations, as well as its social stigma. We wish to unify these different aspects for…
Il dolore come valore. Modificazioni del corpo e sofferenza
By: STEFANO MENICOCCI – La diffusione, soprattutto a partire dagli anni ’80 dello scorso secolo, delle modificazioni corporee a fini estetici, dalla chirurgia estetica sino ai tatuaggi, costituisce un fenomeno culturale complesso che solo in parte ha attratto l’attenzione degli studiosi. Una delle caratteristiche delle modificazioni corporee, naturalmente, è che comportano un intervento sul corpo…