Amidst the complexity of the development-religion nexus, this chapter examines desire and its varying expressions as fundamental concerns of many religions motivating both development and alternatives to development.In Sri Lanka, as people deal with social change, the neoliberal and globalised development is understood and re-interpreted through lo
In the present study the frontal and parietal P300, elicited in an 3 piece horse wall art auditory oddball paradigm were investigated in a large sample of healthy participants (N=1,572), aged 6-87.According to the concepts of the compensation-related utilization of neural circuits hypothesis (CRUNCH) it was hypothesized that the developmental traje
Glucocorticoids are widely used as an ophthalmic medication.A common, sight-threatening adverse event of glucocorticoid usage is ocular hypertension, caused by dysfunction of the conventional outflow pathway.We report that netarsudil, a rho-kinase inhibitor, decreased glucocorticoid-induced ocular hypertension in patients whose intraocular pressure
Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to locomotor dysfunction.Locomotor rehabilitation promotes the recovery of stepping ability in lower mammals, but it has limited efficacy in humans with a severe SCI.To explain this discrepancy between different species, a nonhuman primate rehabilitation model with a severe SCI would be useful.In this study, we develo