The area of our research is the phenomenon of social influence process and the role of person's and group's mentality in the conflict. Conflict implies the existence of at least two sides or parties, majority and minority (by its number, territory, resources and etc.). Until now the role of majority in social influence process was mainly studied considering the existing numerous psychological r...

The use of survival time models with non-proportional hazard functions is introduced as a method of studying age of onset effects in family studies. Statistical methods for investigating non-proportionality of the hazard function are described, and the application of these methods is illustrated using data from a family study of depression to investigate transmission of age of onset between pro...

The purpose of this paper was to review the theoretical underpinnings, major concepts, and methods of the typological approach. It was argued that the typological approach offers a systematic, empirically rigorous and reliable way to synthesize the nomothetic variable-centered approach with the idiographic case-centered approach. Recent advances in cluster analysis validation make it a promisin...

More than 20 different leukocyte or tissue antigens can presently be recognized; they belong to one complex system (HL-A) which is, from the genetic point of view, very similar to the H-2 system in the mouse. Another independent system consisting of two antigens has also been well defined, the Group Five system. The methods of defining these antigens, their tissue distri bution, and complex rel...

specific and non- specific cellular immune responses were studied in 20 amoebiasis cases and 10 controls. all the study cases and controls were indians living in varanasi, india. ten amoebic liver abscess cases were patients admitted to university hospital. ten non-invasive intestinal amoebiasis cases constituted the second study group. non-specific immune responses were studied using e-rosette...