Rabies remains a public health problem in the Americas because of the great diversity of wild reservoirs that maintain the virus in nature. Here we report the antigenic characterization of 254 rabies viruses isolated from 148 nonreservoir and 106 reservoir…

An account of a recasting of a theoretical model of integrated lives from a model of collective capability - a theoretical model rooted in Amartya Sen's Capability Approach, in order to make sense of the way that adult early childhood…

In this paper it is argued that moral distress is an emotional response to an ethical dilemma, and that to date the literature has largely failed to address the
fundamental questions that need to be answered in response to this…

This study was undertaken to observe factors affecting the process and impact of employee volunteer activities in three business enterprises in Thailand, using a Buddhist economic framework. Buddhist economics differs significantly from mainstream (neoclassical) economics in its ontological underpinning. This…

Ted Hughes sought collaborators throughout his literary life: from Jim Downer in the fifties to Sylvia Plath, Peter Brook, Fay Godwin, Peter Keen, Seamus Heaney and Leonard Baskin. Despite this, the majority of critical attention focuses on Hughes in isolation,…

No continent has as high a proportion of older people as Europe. In this paper, we report the findings of an empirical project examining the legal advice needs of older people. An important element of the project also sought information…

After a few remarks about the relationship between law and technology in the Knowledge society and the position that ICT is not a kind of application of law to new needs and tools of the society but something that is…

An affordable, solar powered row house is designed and constructed for implementation in a historically low-income area of Houston, Texas. This ZeRow House is tied to the electrical grid for purchase of electricity at night, but completely compensates by generating…

Virtually all engineering education organizations from around the world agree on the critical awareness of the societal context of engineering for graduating engineers. Service learning is one viable way that can bring about students’ awareness of their role in society.…

Valparaiso University engineering students have completed a service learning project to design and manufacture an upgraded braille printing press for Lutheran Braille Workers, Inc., a charitable organization that provides free-of-charge, Christian print material to visually impaired individuals around the world.…