2nd edition



Authored by David L. Robinson



Pontoon Publications, 2009



Brain, Mind and Behaviour describes new discoveries concerning the relationship between brain-function and individual differences in human personality…

A gram-negative bacterium designated A8 was isolated from hydrocarbon contaminated soil collected from petrol pump of Ahmedabad, India. Its ability to degrade carbazole, nitrogen containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon was checked in basal salt media containing 3 mM of carbazole. Growing…

It is argued in this paper that the Islamization of the social sciences should be seen-for conceptual and for pragmatic reasons-as the heart of the Islamization of Knowledge (IOK) movement. If that position is accepted, the importance of efforts to…

This study utilized a PEW media consumption survey to gauge specific links between socioeconomic status, online news use, traditional news use, and knowledge of public affairs. The analysis examined whether technological change could add to knowledge differences between social segments.…

Al-Ghazālī expressed many ideas on the theory of knowledge in his different works including Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm aI-dīn as well as al-Risālah al-laduniyyah. The former work is accepted by the scholars as securely attributed to al-Ghazālī, while the authenticity of the…

En la era del conocimiento los docentes deben tener múltiples competencias para responder a la misión de la universidad, que contempla tres funciones sustantivas: la docencia, la investigación y la extensión. A la segunda se quiere responder con este artículo,…

This article analyzes Mark Haddon’s 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, using a combination of both disability studies theory and ecocriticism.  The author argues that the novel’s main character, Christopher Boone, presents a social model…

Abstract: I describe a recent touch tour I took at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and suggest that since sighted visitors do not enjoy the opportunity to touch works of art, museums should collect the observations of…

Cancer and Malaria are the common diseases affecting the citizens of both developed and poor countries. An ethno-botanical survey was conducted at Sardar Bahudar Khan Women’s university campus, From March to November,2010. Ethno-botanical information was collected from faculty and students…

From the perspective of Michel Foucault’s conceptualizations of biopower and technologies of normalization, disability activism emerges as a collective protest against the form of power/knowledge that produces disability as an abject identity. Yet, disability activists also claim a “right to…