We are praised and blamed for things of which we are causes, not things for which necessity, nature,chance or other human beings are causes. In his ethical writings Aristotle restricts moral responsibility to those actions an agent performs voluntarily. Only voluntary actions are candidates for praise and blame, reward and punishment. Voluntary actions meet two conditions: they have their causa...

Characteristics of qualitative and quantitative composition benthos organisms on littoral spring spawning grounds Kurile Lake was given for the first time in 1974. Grounds typically consist intermiting plots pebble or gravel (clean covered by biocrust) with permanent sand component, sometime silty. The silt component rivers Srednaya Kirushutk is more impressive comparing to lake grounds. Chiron...

In this paper we study curvature properties of semi - symmetric type of totally umbilical radical transversal lightlike hypersurfaces $(M,g)$ and $(M,widetilde g)$ of a K"ahler-Norden manifold $(overline M,overline J,overline g,overline { widetilde g})$ of constant totally real sectional curvatures $overline nu$ and $overline {widetilde nu}$ ($g$ and $widetilde g$ are the induced metrics on $M$...

Longitudinal repeated measures data has often been visualized with spaghetti plots for continuous outcomes. For large datasets, this often leads to over-plotting and consequential obscuring of trends in the data. This is primarily due to overlapping of trajectories. Here, we suggest a framework called lasagna plotting that constrains the subject-specific trajectories to prevent overlapping and ...

Nematode population densities in field plots were estimated by collecting samples consisting of 12 soil cores. Plots encompassed a variety of plant hosts and sampling dates, and provided data on the population densities of seven species of plant-parasitic nematodes. Three separate samples were collected per plot on each sampling date to obtain estimates of the mean and variance of numbers for e...

In this paper we establish the empirical likelihood method for the two-sample case in a general framework. We show that the result of Qin and Zhao (2000) basically covers the following two-sample models: the differences of two sample means, smooth Huber estimators, distribution and quantile functions, ROC curves, probability-probability (P-P) and quantile-quantile (Q-Q) plots. Finally, the stru...