a prisoner in the Cuttack Jail quarrelled with the female convict warder. In consequence of this quarrel she, on the evening of the 6th September 1902, made an attempt to hang herself. Making a rope by tearing up her cotton saree, she threw a noose round her neck, fastened the ends of the rope to the top bar of an Alipore pattern cubicle, in which she was confined, and sat down. An alarm was ra...

The proportion of citizens with an ethnic minority background in Denmark is rising and considerations about how to adapt health care services to the needs of this part of the population are becoming increasingly relevant. To do this, knowledge is needed about the factors influencing the health of these population groups. Migration is one of these factors. The process of migration influences the...

The number of earthquakes with high damage and high losses has been limited to around 100 events since 1900. Looking at historical losses from 1900 onward, we see that around 100 key earthquakes (or around 1% of damaging earthquakes) have caused around 93% of fatalities globally. What is indeed interesting about this statistic is that within these events, secondary effects have played a major r...

Research and policies concerning primary and secondary school education in the United States are increasingly focused on student achievement test scores, in part because of the rapidly growing availability of data tracking student scores over time. These longitudinal data are currently being used to measure school and teacher performance, as well as to study the impacts of teacher qualification...

one of the possible threats in increasing use of nanomaterials is the emergence of toxicity in humans and other animals which is discussed in nanotoxicology. in addition to toxic effects of nanomaterials themselves, different chemical precursors which are usually used in bottom-up approaches for production of nanomaterials may have secondary toxic effects in living organisms. in contrast, less ...

let r be a commutative ring with non-zero identity and m be a unital r-module. then the concept of quasi-secondary submodules of m is introduced and some results concerning this class of submodules is obtained

Abstract Research shows a heterogeneous picture of migration-related disparities regarding adolescents’ educational trajectories at the end lower-secondary education. Among other disparities, migrants face large disadvantages with regard to transition vocational education and training (VET). They are, however, also more likely change upper-secondary school tracks Using longitudinal data drawn f...