Abstract Megarian Actualism is the denial of unmanifesting powers. Aristotle called such a view ‘buffoonery’ and dispositionalists have provided compelling reasons for contrary platitude that powers need not manifest. Even so, drawing on extant treatments quantitative I’ll suggest many which feature in lawlike equations are plausibly interpreted as Megarian. This because described by best under...

Regression plays a central role in the discipline of statistics and is primary analytic technique many research areas. Variable selection classical major problem for regression. This article emphasizes economic aspect variable selection. The formulated terms cost predictors to be purchased future use: only subset covariates used model will need purchased. leads decision-theoretic formulation pr...

common variable immunodeficiency (cvid) is the most common symptomatic primary immunodeficiency disease, predisposing the patients to various tissue involvement and organ damage. here a 16-year-old boy is presented who was referred to our center with cough, dyspnea,cyanosis, and history of recurrent pneumonia. the diagnosis of cvid was made according to reduction all serum immunoglobulin levels...