Review of Spirituality and Mental Health Across Cultures, edited by Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Bruno Paz Mosqueiro, Dinesh Bhugra

Our former study on the empirical relations between the Fourier parameters of the light curves of the fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars and their basic stellar parameters has been extended to considerably larger data sets. The most significant contribution to the absolute magnitude MV comes from the period P and from the first Fourier amplitude A1, but there are statistically significant contribu...

A feature based relation classification approach is presented, in which probabilistic and semantic relatedness features between patterns and relation types are employed with other linguistic information. The importance of each feature set is evaluated with Chi-square estimator, and the experiments show that, the relatedness features have big impact on the relation classification performance. A ...

Landscape patterns demonstrate scale-dependent properties that have been parsimoniously described by empirical scaling functions. These functions, derived from multiple-scale analysis of real landscapes, are evaluated here for their generality and robustness via a series of simulated landscapes with known landscape patterns. A factorial design was used to generate these landscapes, varying the ...

Upcoming missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope, will soon characterize atmospheres of terrestrial-type exoplanets in habitable zones around cool K- and M-type stars by searching for atmospheric biosignatures. Recent observations suggest that ionizing radiation particle environment from active planet hosts may be detrimental to exoplanetary habitability. Since no direct information ...

The paper reviews recent theory and empirical evidence testing unitary versus collective models of the household. In contrast to the unitary model, the collective model posits that individuals within households have different preferences and do not pool their income. Moreover, the collective model predicts that intrahousehold allocations reflect differences in preferences and "bargaining power"...

The varieties of marriage described by Manu and accepted by Vatsyayana are mentioned. The qualities of the bride and bridegroom for an ideal marriage are enumerated by Vatsyayana. The Shastraic view of the same along with the valid conditions of a Hindu Marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 are contrasted. The role of the virtuous wife in house-keeping and looking after the husband, accor...