The author contends that sex differentials in childhood mortality in Pakistan are a likely outcome of son preference behavior by parents. Consideration is given to the historical improvement in the female disadvantage in mortality, the neglect of female children, gender and class factors, and son preference and high fertility. Data are from the 1981 Pakistan census and other official surveys....

In this paper, we describe research to extend the capability of an existing talking head, Baldi, to be multilingual. We use parsimonious client/server architecture to impose autonomy in the functioning of an auditory speech module and a visual speech synthesis module. This scheme enables the implementation and the joint application of text-to-speech synthesis and facial animation in many langua...

comparing the islamic logic and jurisprudential principles, and basedon the separation between minor and major authorities (hujjiyyatsughrawi wa kubrawi), it can be proved that (1) minor authority ofsuitable verbal text per nexum (al-mantuq al-muwafiq al-iltizami),minor authority of suitable concept per nexum (al-mafhum al-muwafiqal-iltizami), and minor authority of contrary concept (al-mafhum ...

duced by brainstem lesions in the rat. Circ Res 32: 584-593, 1973 10. Badr GG, Lindholm LE: A simple method for connecting chronically implanted electrodes. Physiol Behav 9: 487-488, 1972 11. Snedecor GW: Statistical Methods Applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology. Ames, Iowa State University Press, 1967 12. Guazzi M, Zanchetti A: Blood pressure and heart rate during natural sleep of ...

tawfiq al-hakim is one of the proficient authors in history of egypt’s literature. he has so much worked inliterature, intellectual and cultural concepts. he was a craftsman author .it can say that he is dramatistic literature’s father of egypt and arab and one of the founders of the dramatic art, novel and short story in contemporary literature. tawfiq al-hakim had special attention to human a...