The Frege-Russell view is that existence is a second-order property rather than a property of individuals. One of the most compelling arguments for this view is based on the premise that there is an especially close connection between existence and number. The most promising version of this argument is by C.J.F. Williams (1981, 1992). In what follows, I argue that this argument fails. I then de...

Surface samples have been collected from Kerala coast, Valapatanam-Azhikode deposit of northern Kerala coast. The average heavy minerals percentage shows 30.32 %. The heavy mineral assemblage of samples from area showed an appreciable percentage of opaque followed by sillimanite and zircon. The chemical analysis carried out for the present investigation, is detailed as Ferrian ilmenite. X-ray d...

A recent physiological finding of neural coding for border ownership (BO) that defines the direction of a figure with respect to the border has provided a possible basis for figure-ground segregation. To explore the underlying neural mechanisms of BO, we investigated stimulus configurations that activate BO circuitry through psychophysical investigation of the BO-dependent tilt aftereffect (BO-...

The time is generally a challenging task. All issues in relation to time can be better supported using temporal data models. Almost all enterprise database systems have implemented temporal data, partly according to the model specified in the SQL:2011 standard and partly according to other, older temporal models. In this article five temporal concepts will be used to investigate their implement...

one of the main puzzles of modern population and social history is why, among all countries confronting rapid population growth in the second half of the twentieth century, China chose to adopt an extreme measure of birth control known as the one-child policy. a related question is why such a policy, acknowledged to have many undesirable consequences, has been retained for so long, even beyond ...