To describe the characteristics of persons in the United States who smoke but do not smoke daily, we analyzed 1997-1998 data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). The NHIS collects self-reported information on cigarette smoking from a representative sample of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population aged 18 years or older through in-home surveys. Nondaily smokers were defi...

This paper d e s c r i b e s a sys t em t h a t a t t e m p t s to i n t e r p r e t d e s c r i p t i v e t e x t s w i t h o u t the uJe of complex grammars. The pu rpose of the sys t em i s to t r a n s f o r m the d e s c r i p t i o n s to a s t a n d a r d form which may be used as the b a s i s of a d a t a b a s e s y s tem knowledgeable i n the s u b j e c t m a t t e r of the teXt. Th...

At present, throughout the world LNG investments are abounding. In particular, the US and the EU are trying to facilitate their security of natural gas supply. For this reason, LNG enables importers to extend their gas suppliers’ portfolio, considering that some producing countries can be reached only via sea transport. LNG will thus increase importers’ choice; at the same time it can widen the...

pistachio nut (pistacia vera l.) is one of the popular and nutritious tree nuts in the world. pistachio spread is a new product which is made from pistachio paste, icing sugar, soy protein isolate (spi), and red palm oil (rpo). this study involved sensory acceptability (by 32 assessors) using hedonic scale and development of suitable terminology for describing pistachio spread using quantitativ...

this paper investigates the enrollment behavior of the students of sylhet international university (siu), a private university in bangladesh. the researcher conducted reliability test, descriptive analysis, and chi-square tests and identified a number of key findings as to the enrollment behavior of students through collecting data from a sample of 584 students of siu. the research shows that t...