First we should mention legislation related to the higher education (HE) in the Republic of Latvia. The key laws regulating HE are as follows: ‘Law on higher education establishments’ passed in 1995 (revised in 2000), and ‘Frame Law on Education’ passed in 1998. Regulation of HE is referred to also in the ‘Law on Professional Education’ passed in 1999 and other laws, for instance, the law ‘On S...

The ancient Vedic texts Provides us with valuable information and guide lines on various multi-faced aspects of human life. The present discussion is limited to the medical treatment and medicinal charms mentioned in the Atharvanic literature with specific consideration to Kausikasutra for better understanding of the rites and actions mentioned in Atharvanaveda.

Objectives The aim was to identify theoretically expected as well as actually reported benefits from drug development and the importance of individual patient benefits compared to the collective benefits to society in general. Background Ethical guidelines require that clinical research involving humans offer the potential for benefit. A number of characteristics can be applied to define rese...

In complex stimuli, there are many different possible ways to refer to a specified target. Previous studies have shown that when people are faced with such a task, the content of their referring expression reflects visual properties such as size, salience, and clutter. Here, we extend these findings and present evidence that (i) the influence of visual perception on sentence construction goes b...