Suranho healing: Filipino concepts of intellectual disability and treatment choices in Negros Occidental

This qualitative study investigated the use of folk medicine by families for people with intellectual disability in the Philippines. Workers from Negros Occidental who support people with intellectual disability participated in semi-structured interviews. Findings show families seek the intervention of a folk healer before seeking primary healthcare support and a prosperous cultural use of folk medicine exists across the Philippines. Intellectual impairment is perceived by some Filipinos to be caused by supernatural forces. Socio-cultural constructs of intellectual disability probably influence health outcomes for this populace. If primary healthcare tools and resources for people with intellectual disability that are developed in higher-income nations are to have the potential to be transferred into other settings, understanding of attitudes towards alternative medicine is needed.     

WILCOXON-TYPE RANK-SUM PRECEDENCE TESTS

This paper introduces Wilcoxon‐type rank‐sum precedence tests for testing the hypothesis that two life‐time distribution functions are equal. They extend the precedence life‐test first proposed by Nelson in 1963. The paper proposes three Wilcoxon‐type rank‐sum precedence test statistics—the minimal, maximal and expected rank‐sum statistics—and derives their null distributions. Critical values are presented for some combinations of sample sizes, and the exact power function is derived under the Lehmann alternative. The paper examines the power properties of the Wilcoxon‐type rank‐sum precedence tests under a location‐shift alternative through Monte Carlo simulations, and it compares the power of the precedence test, the maximal precedence test and Wilcoxon rank‐sum test (based on complete samples). Two examples are presented for illustration.     

三峡库区城镇布局结构特征及发展框架构建研究

重庆三峡库区城镇分布呈现出的断带性和单体性、城镇协作的松散性、空间布局的非均衡性、发展水平的非平衡性、职能类型结构的单一性、产业组合的同构性、城镇工业空洞化等特点,严重阻滞着库区社会经济的发展.为此,必须建立三个"金三角"城镇级次群落体系,构建重庆三峡库区城镇带,以此为支撑,培育以奉节、万州、涪陵、长寿为核心的特色产业集群,组建三峡库区城镇新型产业带.     

Midlife Lesbian Parenting

Summary

This study explores the experience of nine midlife lesbian mothers parenting young children. The participants live in the greater Bay Area of San Francisco.

The participants reported positive feelings about their parenting experience. They felt confident and secure in midlife, and this enhanced their parenting. Their own maturation issues, whether they were coming out or other developmental concerns, seem successfully traversed, leaving them more inner resources for mothering.

Participants experienced acceptance from the larger culture, as well as discrimination and ignorance. Participants experienced little conflict regarding nurturing with their partner and little conflict with respect to their identities as mothers.     

丙烷作为冰箱、空调制冷工质毛细管最佳长度的计算

本文以计算传热学、流体力学为研究手段,利用数值计算的方法模拟出所需毛细管的最佳几何尺寸及随工况变化时的情况,建立相应的物理模型和模型、编制程度,计算出以丙烷（R290）作工质的小型制冷设备毛细管的长度,为毛细管的选择建立一定的理论依据。     

我国物权法关于抵押转让制度设计之不足与完善

<中华人民共和国物权法>已由十届人大五次会议高票通过,担保物权作为物权法中的一项重要内容,对于抵御我国市场经济生活中的各种风险将起到举足轻重的作用.但在担保物权中,<物权法>关于抵押转让制度规定却存在许多不足:限制抵押人转让抵押物,没有兼顾当事人的利益,没有考虑到动产抵押的特殊性,仅以替代清偿作为唯一解除抵押权人同意的条件.通过分析比较国内外关于该制度的立法状况,针对我国立法中存在的问题提出一些建设性的意见.     

离散型模糊概率在方案选择中的应用

针对决策者在进行方案选择时各种自然状态发生概率的不确定性,提出并讨论了离散型模糊状态概率下的方案选择问题。将方案各状态发生概率的三项估计值表示为三角模糊数,从而获得离散型模糊概率分布,利用限制模糊算法确定离散型模糊概率分布的数字特征值,在确定决策者决策准则的前提下,利用方案评价指标的数字特征值选择方案,同时分析了该法处理的优点。     

论《左传》代词别称词的使用及其贵族文化特点

《左传》的人称代词既丰富又复杂,还存在一些相当于这些人称代词的别称词,这些别称词在行文中长期稳固地替代这些人称代词,成为古代汉语人称代词用法的一个特点。这种使用特点反映了春秋时期的语言特点,同时也折射出那个时代谦恭礼让、自卑而尊人的贵族文化风范以及尊卑等级差异显著的贵族文化特点。     

Constant hazard against a change-point alternative: a bayesian approach with censored data

A Bayesian approach to the problem of a constant hazard with a single change-point is developed using noninformative reference priors. We also present a generalization for the comparison for two treatments.     

Precedence-type test based on Kaplan–Meier estimator of cumulative distribution function

In this paper, we introduce a precedence-type test based on Kaplan–Meier estimator of cumulative distribution function (CDF) for testing the hypothesis that two distribution functions are equal against a stochastically ordered hypothesis. This test is an alternative to the precedence life-test proposed first by Nelson (1963). After deriving the null distribution of the test statistic, we present its exact power function under the Lehmann alternative, and compare the exact power as well as simulated power (under location-shift) of the proposed test with other precedence-type tests. Next, we extend this test to the case of progressively Type-II censored data. Critical values for some combination of sample sizes and progressive censoring schemes are presented. We then examine the power properties of this test procedure and compare them to those of the weighted precedence and weighted maximal precedence tests under a location-shift alternative by means of Monte Carlo simulations. Finally, we present two examples to illustrate all the test procedures discussed here, and then make some concluding remarks.