Some legal concepts, as evidenced by the early grabar (ancient Armenian), later appeared with shifts in meaning, narrowing or expanding, often also moving away from original we have case of word "ojit" ("dowry"), which originally meant a gift brought bridegroom to bride, and he became an inheritance his father's house, bride. We fixed author's new use GITHWORN (githwor, Guilty), since Armenian)...

Random forests have become a widely-used predictive model in many scientific disciplines within the past few years. Additionally, they are increasingly popular for assessing variable importance, e.g., in genetics and bioinformatics. We highlight both advantages and limitations of different variable importance scores and associated testing procedures. For the test of Breiman and Cutler (2008), w...

If gifts are reciprocated in the future, intra-household distribution of resources will depend on premarital gifts such as dowry, bride-price and parents’ gifts to a child such as schooling and nurturing. If such social norms of reciprocity exist, parental income effects on their child’s human capital will be asymmetric, and the effect will depend on the amount of intra-household transfers made...