TAENIA SAGINATA is a parasite of hu-mans, where its adult form is a large tapeworm in the small intestine, and of cattle, where its larval form is a small cysticercus in the muscles. Man can only acquire the infestation by eating raw beef. Cattle can only acquire the cysticercus by consuming ova from human excreta. Humans, as a rule, are concerned only with their own infestation. They seldom co...

to follow. Paper 2: Sayana Namsaraeva: MPI Halle, and Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow “The ambiguous use of avuncular terminology in defining Buryat diaspora relations with homeland and host country” Abstract The significance of the relationship between mother’s brother and sister’s son (avunculate) in kinship has been one of the most discussed topics in the h...

Motivated by applications such as the spread of epidemics and the propagation of influence in social networks, we propose a formal model for analyzing the dynamics of such networks. Our model is a stochastic version of discrete dynamical systems. Using this model, we formulate and study the computational complexity of two fundamental problems (called reachability and predecessor existence probl...

This paper examines the impact of social and cultural factors on malaria control in rural Thailand. It contends that standard vertical malaria control programs tend to ignore local workplace and living conditions instead of recruiting traditional practices into the planning scenario for more effective control. Careful attention to these practices in the context of local economic capacity can se...

Based on a paper read before the Continuing Education Program, Mendota State Hospital, Madison, Wis, Nov 6, 1969 LET ME assure the reader who may have a response to a presumptious title that what follows does not comprise any final view or comprehensive statement; in this case at least, the appearance is not the reality. Rather, my discussion proceeds from a particular point of view (or bias, i...

Contrary to the structural aspect of conventional social network analysis, a new method in behavioral analysis is proposed. We define behavioral measures including self-loops and multiple links and illustrate the behavioral analysis with the networks of Wikipedia editing. Behavioral social network analysis provides an explanation of human behavior that may be further extended to the explanation...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Landmines have long been used in conventional warfare. These are antipersonnel mines which continue to injure people long after a ceasefire without differentiating between friend or foe, soldier or civilian, women or children. This study focuses on Afghan non-combatants engaged in mine clearing operations in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Russo-Afghan war. The patterns and ...

Data quality problems are widespread in practice, particularly in data warehousing and the implementation of enterprise resource planning systems. Attempts to define data quality include lists of data quality dimensions and more comprehensive theory-based frameworks. This paper extends the semiotics-based data quality framework proposed by Shanks and Darke. In particular, it discusses the socia...

Objectives: In a single Muslim village in Israel, established about 300 years ago by a small number of founders, a longitudinal study was conducted on the types of marriages and their effects on family planning, with the age at which a woman had her first child and the size of the family assessed. Methods: The information for the analysis was extracted from a detailed database including individ...