A better understanding of manipulative abduction at the level of scientific experiment could improve our knowledge of induction and its distinction from abduction: manipulative abduction can be considered as a kind of basis for further meaningful inductive generalizations. For example different generated “construals” can give rise to different inductive generalizations. It is difficult to grasp...

Manipulative authorities can bunch tenders just below thresholds to implement noncompetitive procurement practices. I use regression discontinuity manipulation tests identify the bunching scheme. investigate European Union public data set that covers more than two million contracts. The results show 10–13% of examined exhibit a high probability bunching. These are less likely employ competitive...

The manipulative influence of speech is a constant subject debate. Advertising as reflection social reality has potential. Studies the linguistic means that form and enable slogans political advertising are studied in terms sociolinguistics, language dynamics discourse, most scientific sources revealed new conscious manifestation desire to masses. Manipulative discourse considered strategic fie...

The authors used the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 1999 Summary to compare the practice patterns of osteopathic and allopathic physicians in the management of musculoskeletal disorders in family practice settings. Patient and physician characteristics, diagnostic test ordering patterns, treatments, and amount of time spent with patients during visits were compared. Patients who visit...

The pneumonias due to infection continue to be a meaningful threat to the health and viability of persons, particularly those in high risk groups: children, the aged and the debilitated. Noll and colleagues provide us with the results of a well-designed and well-executed multi-institutional controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in the tre...

For positive integers n and q and a monotone graph property A, we consider the two player, perfect information game WC(n, q,A), which is defined as follows. The game proceeds in rounds. In each round, the first player, called Waiter, offers the second player, called Client, q + 1 edges of the complete graph Kn which have not been offered previously. Client then chooses one of these edges which ...