This paper examines how differences in the bargaining power of husband and wife affect the distribution of consumption expenditures in rural Bangladeshi households. Two alternative measures of assets are used: current assets and the value of assets brought to marriage. Results show that both assets at marriage and current assets are strongly determined by the human capital of husband and wife a...

The study analyses of the “degree of association” between the satisfaction expressed by the parental figures and the family structure they belong to: Family nuclear, single-parent, binuclear and complex families. In the transversal investigation, 631 mothers and fathers from the middle and upper-middle socio-cultural class took part. The identification of the family structures was undertaken by...

The present investigation was undertaken to study the relationship of Academic Stress with parental aspirations and parental attitudes. Differences among boys and girls in science and humanities stream were studied with regard to academic stress and aspirations and attitudes of the parents of the adolescents. The sample of the study comprised of 120 students of both the sexes studying in twelft...

We compared three commercially supplied blood-gas quality control solutions ("contrIL," "G.A.S.," and "Quantra") and tonometered whole blood under research and service conditions in four hospital laboratories. In some situations Quantra and tonometered blood were comparably sensitive to problems with blood-gas instrument malfunctions (e.g., hydraulics or temperature control) but the aqueous buf...

RNA isolation is performed everyday by molecular biologists for a wide range of applications. No matter what protocol is used and how meticulous the user is, a risk to degrade RNA during the process or to carry over contaminants always exists which may affect the reliability of the subsequent analytical techniques. The parameters that are usually checked for quality control include the concentr...

Voice-induced synaesthesia is an under-researched neurological condition which leads to multisensory perceptions while hearing someone’s voice. This paper is the first attempt to analyse acoustically which aspects of voice qualities (VQs) trigger consistent colour perceptions and associations in synaesthetes, phoneticians and control participants. An online experiment revealed that f0 influence...

Introduction: Epilepsy is a complex pervasive neurobehavioral and social condition accompanied by a wide range of comorbid conditions that can adversely affect the quality of life of patients. Sleep complaints are common among patients with epilepsy. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of subjective sleep disturbances and its effects on sleep quality in epileptic patients.  Me...

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women [1]. Current attempts to control breast cancer concentrate on early detection by means of massive screening cam‐ paign, via periodic mammography and physical examination, because ample evidence in‐ dicates that such screening indeed can be effective in lowering the death rate [2]. Early diagnosis of breast cancer plays a leading role ...