Indonesia, although it is developing rapidly, still offers many traditional circumstances that could be the subject of research. An example Manggarai, a region in western part Flores Island. When founding family, inhabitants Manggarai practice way (adat).This procedure based on local concept family not only has classical meaning as nuclear called kilo, ca kilo or mbaru kilo), but also includes ...

The Guidance Manual for the Assessment of Joint Toxic Action of Chemical Mixtures (Mixtures Guidance Manual) is intended to assist environmental health scientists and toxicologists in determining whether exposure to chemical mixtures at hazardous waste sites may affect public health. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) approach is a semi-quantitative screening process. ...

Hannah S. Decker, The Making of DSM-III: A Diagnostic Manual’s Conquest of American Psychiatry (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 443, £35.99, paperback, ISBN-10: 0195382234. Edward Shorter, How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 246, £19.99, hardback, ISBN-10: 0199948089. Deborah Weinstein, The Patholog...

Adaboost is a machine learning algorithm that builds a series of small decision trees, adapting each tree to predict difficult cases missed by the previous trees and combining all trees into a single model. We will discuss the AdaBoost methodology and introduce the extension called Real AdaBoost. Real AdaBoost comes from a strong academic pedigree: its authors are pioneers of machine learning a...

the aim of this study is assessing and mapping landslide susceptibility in watershed of semiarid mountain areas. saeedabad-chai watershd is located on the northwest of iran and the north of sahand mountain. this study is using bivariate statistical analysis (bsa), weights-of-evidence (woe),gis. the results of this assessment show that causative factors as slope (∑wæ’= + 3.965), landuse(∑wæ’...

In this article, we focus on tackling a relative research gap: how country distance (institutional, cultural, economic, and geographical distance) determines the entry mode choice between wholly-owned enterprises (WOEs) joint venture (JVEs) in context of “going global”. Based sample 439 multinational (MNEs) from 22 different nations that directly invested agricultural sector Vietnam period 1996...

A number of chemicals, including several organochlorine pesticides, have been identified as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Here, the properties of chlorpyrifos (CPY; CAS No. 2921-88-2) and its active metabolite, chlorpyrifos oxon (CPYO; CAS No. 5598-15-2), are assessed relative to criteria for classification of compounds as persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances (PBTs). The ma...