This article presents original research on relations between middle-class residents and informal-sector workers in Delhi, India. It shows how middle-class associations used their consumption preferences as well as relationships with local authorities to legitimize the work of street hawkers and waste workers. These findings suggest that the toleration of informality can be traced to governance ...

A recent review suggested using topical pharyngeal anaesthesia only in patients who prefer to be endoscoped without sedation. Topical anaesthesia was also found to be unnecessary in sedated patients in a subsequent study'. However the mean (range) dose of midazolam given to patients in this study was 8 mg (4-10). Using a lower dose of midazolam (mean dose = 5.2 mg ± 0.5 (2SEM) ), lignocaine spr...

This paper, based on the exploration of the characteristics of folk innovation, provides thorough analysis of its status quo in China. The author holds that there exist many problems in the innovation among individual folks, non-governmental scientific research institutions and private enterprises, and that in view of Indian experience in folk innovation development, the entrepreneurial culture...

Ladyman, Lipton, and Teller on The Empirical Stance Bas C. van Fraassen I. What is a stance? 1. The argument 2 What is a stance, in general? A. "Stance" and non-philosophical stances B. Role and unity of a stance 3. What is a philosophical stance? 4. What is an empiricist stance? II. Metaphysics III. Voluntarism A. Ladyman's challenge: counterinductive strategies B. The challenge concerning tol...

Acute hepatitis C (AHC) remains difficult to diagnose due to its asymptomatic course. The manuscript presents two children with AHC after known sexual and parenteral exposure, which allowed for close monitoring. Both developed increased aminotransferase activity, though the viral load was significantly higher after parenteral exposure. Lack of hepatitis C virus (HCV) clearance led to therapy wi...

Opinion dynamics in relative agreement models seen as an extension of bounded confidence ones, involve a new agents’ variable usually called opinion uncertainty and have higher level complexity than that models. After revising the meaning we conclude it has to be interpreted agent’s toleration, changes type from social psychological one. Since convergence rates stationary states sociological va...

Purpose This paper aims at understanding the dynamics underlying toleration as a complex social phenomenon and its pattern on Facebook during June 30th revolution in Egypt. Thanks to huge advances ICT, internet-mediated research (IMR) has become one of most prominent methodologies sciences. Discussions network sites cannot be neglected studying emerging phenomena such changes public opinion, cu...

Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama’s book, Persecution Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom, examines the links between religion, state action, development of liberalism in medieval Europe. It discusses a model “conditional toleration”; how interaction religion influences persecution discrimination against minorities; religious freedom eventually paved way for scientific advances, libera...

Extensive research with animals and humans indicates that rewarded effort contributes to durable individual differences in industriousness. It is proposed that reinforcement for increased physical or cognitive performance, or for the toleration of aversive stimulation, conditions rewards value to the sensation of high effort and thereby reduces effort's aversiveness. The conditioning of seconda...

The immunogenicity and tolerability of hepatitis A virus vaccine was evaluated in a group of 32 children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and 27 children with seroreversion. After 2 doses of vaccine, 100% of children experienced seroconversion with good toleration of the vaccine. There were no differences in variation of virus load between immunized HIV-positive children and a ...