Introduction The Montane Mainland of Southeast Asia (MMSEA) covers about half of the total area of six countries, viz., Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (Figure 1) and is home to many ethnic minorities (Table 1). Ethnic minorities account for about 15% of total population of the region. Food security is a major concern of local communities as well as national governments. Sh...

This is an admirable and pvactical little book which practising physicians will find of much use. Habitual constipation is a complaint every medical man has to deal with and one in which the skilled clinician is able to do much good. Of the present little book some chapters appeared in the author's Contributions to Practical Medicine (5th Ed., 1912). It contains six chapters and their contents ...

During a study several species of mitosporic fungi which have been collected from Guilan Province were examined and seven species viz.: Hansfordia pulvinata, Myriellina cydoniae, Phloeospora cf. ulmi, Questieriella sp., Sarcinella questieri, Septoria cf. castaneicola and Sirosporium mori were found to be new records for Iran mycoflora. Moreover, Sirosporium celtidis is described and illustrated...

The notion of extensionality means in plain sense that properties of complex things can be expressed by means of their simple components, in particular, that two things are identical if and only if certain of their components or features are identical; e.g., the Leibniz Identitas Indiscernibilium Principle: two things are identical if each applicable to them operator yields the same result on e...

The paper draws attention to an important, but apparently neglected distinction relating to axiomatic theories of truth, viz. the distinction between weakly and strongly truth-compositional theories of truth. The paper argues that the distinction might be helpful in classifying weak axiomatic theories of truth and examines some of them with respect to it.

Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in the hydrogen economy, with emphasis n the metal/hydrogen system and its application to energy conversion efforts. Two ndustrially important aspects are emphasized, viz. the amount of hydrogen stored and the ate at which it can be transferred (absorbed/desorbed) because they are crucial factors in he design and construction of electrochemical energ...

Correlations arise naturally in non-cooperative games, e.g., in the equivalence between undominated and optimal strategies in games with more than two players. But the non-cooperative assumption is that players do not coordinate their strategy choices, so where do these correlations come from? The epistemic view of games gives an answer. Under this view, the players’ hierarchies of beliefs (bel...

The present study examines the variables of gender and relationship status as a function of one component of Facebook activity, viz., the percentage of birthday greetings a Facebook user received. Information regarding birth date, relationship status (single or in a relationship) number of friends, and number of birthday wishes received were obtained from the profiles of 200 Facebook users, 100...