Methods Four towns and two rural districts of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Russia) were chosen for the questionnaire. The total number of the childhood population was 50442 children under 17 years of age. Totally 43907 children or their parents were examined with the help of the screening questionnaire. The parents were questioned by medical nurses during consulting reception hours, or in kin...

Transition from socialist to capitalist economy led to enormous changes in earnings and employment. In our study a long-horizon descriptive analysis is presented about the major trends, including the last fifteen years of socialism. Education, gender, calendar time, age and vintage effects are separately analyzed. Aggregate (quasi-) panel analysis is used to assess the role of labor demand and ...

This letter deals with the problem of fluctuating target detection in heavy-tailed -distributed clutter over a number of independent coherent intervals, e.g., in the case of a long observation interval (“stare mode”), or that of independent (range) resolution cells as per the track before detect techniques. The generalized likelihood ratio test for the problem at hand is derived, as well as an ...

Is double prevention causation? Some say yes and some no, but the answer is no. Interrupting prevention, where A prevents B from continuing to prevent something, causation, while blocking intervenes before has begun preventing anything, not. I present two arguments for this thesis. First, it sorts canonical examples of correctly. Second, well-known theoretical that not causation only show causa...

The paper deals with 37 selected species of plants which are used as medicine by tribals of the Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh. Detailed uses of these plants as suggested by the tribals are mentioned. It is however, suggested to carry out chemical screening to identify the active principles in these plants before concluding anything on their uses.

The editors of this special issue Conversations: Journal Cavellian Studies invited contributors to write on Stanley Cavell and Thomas Kuhn. Unfortunately, paper will end with reason is simple: I found that couldn’t begin writing anything the new before had set up literary historical framework for project, discussed Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work aspect-seeing Kuhn’s Structure Scientific Revolutions...