a total of 3528 specimens of freshwater turtles belonging to two families viz., geoemydidae (brown river turtle, kachuga smithi; indian saw-backed turtle, k. tecta; brahminy rrive turtle, hardella thurgi; spotted pond turtle, geoclemys hamiltonii) and trionychidae (indian soft-shell turtle, aspederates gangeticus; peacock soft-shell turtle, a.hurum; narrow-headed soft-shell turtle, chitra indic...

let s be a monoid and x a class of s-acts which is closed under coproducts. the object of this article is to find conditions under which all s-acts have x-precovering. we have shown that the existence of torsion-free precovering implies the existence of torsion-free covering. this work is an attempt to further facilitate the study of the conjecture that all s-acts have flat cover.

Previous studies suggest that people holding protected values show a bias against harmful acts as opposed to harmful omissions (omission bias). Protected values (PVs) have been seen as grounded in deontological moral rules to avoid causing harm. The present study 1) investigated the relationship between PVs and acts of commission versus omission in risky choices, using a paradigm where act and ...

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.06.017 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 519 746 8631. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.P. Eibach In modern liberal societies people are generally reluctant to morally condemn acts that they find personally distasteful so long as those acts are not harmful or unfair to others. However, in providing character educatio...