I do not believe there are any "special sciences" in Fodor's sense. I think that there is a large group of sciences I will call them "historical sciences" that differ fundamentally from the physical sciences because they quantify over a different kind of natural or real kind than do the physical sciences. Moreover, the laws, or better, the generalizations, that these kinds support are not excep...

For millennia, people have utilized essential oil-rich plants to control mosquitoes and other hematophagous insects. A review of the literature found that terpenoids "sesquiterpenoid-rich oils" were effective in mosquito control. Due benign impression successful prevention bites, there has been a recent surge acceptance biobased agents as solutions, conjunction with worldwide ...

The primary task of association rule mining is to detect frequently co-occurring groups of items in transactional databases. The intention is to use this knowledge for prediction purposes. So many researches has focused mainly on how to expedite the search for frequently co-occurring groups of items in "shopping cart" and less attention has been paid to the methods that exploit these ...

The author explores the discourses of stigmatisation using experience Soviet "perestroika", Soviet, Russian and foreign materials, documents CPSU, bodies, public organisations movements, eyewitness memoirs, media testimonies, personal memories. content mechanisms as a process means struggle against USSR Russia are revealed, external internal components highlighted. sta...

Virtual worlds, particularly those able to provide a three-dimensional physical space, have features that make them suitable support collaborative activities. These distinguish virtual worlds from other collaboration tools, but current taxonomies of the field Computer-Supported Cooperative Work do not account for several distinctive namely related with non-verbal communication. We intended find...

Surgical treatment is generally regarded to have a low success rate. Many patients fall into the category Failed Back Surgery Syndrome (FBSS). Burton et al ( [1] ) pointed out, "Nerve compression can be relieved surgically but pain due to nerve injury or scar tissue can only be reduced in extent by therapy ...physical and emotional reactivation in chronic pain programmes..." "The...

Epidural anaesthetics are another group of drugs implicated in causing arachnoiditis. Vandermeulen ( [i] ) includes arachnoiditis as a "mishap"... "solely due to ... epidural anaesthesia". Haisa et al ( [ii] ) state that lumbar adhesive arachnoiditis should be considered for differential diagnosis of back and leg pain after epidural anaesthesia. Furthermore, epidural anaesth...