Parental Property Equal Right Policy of Nepal: A Focus Group Discussion of Students of Law Faculty of Kathmandu

It is general fact that the parental property equal rights are the rights of son and daughter upon parents’ properties, rights to ownership into the parents’ properties, rights to get properties earned by parents, rights of properties acquired in accordance with the inheritance, ownership rights to house, money, land and other properties earned by parents and forefather. The property right is a national issue and it is also related to the economy, which is one of the important factors for the development of the country. Unless it would not identify the property-related issue because its effort to change in society will be meaningless. The main objective of the study is to analyze the Parental property equal rights policy of Nepal. To find the objective this article is prepared based on primary information direct group discussion with Law students of different Law Colleges of Kathmandu Valley. Specifically, it is to find quality information regarding the existing policy of parental property equal rights system in Nepal. The researcher has not used the information besides as mentioned objectives. The researcher has applied the analytical research methods and inductive approach to make the meaning full of the information. The obtained information is explained in extended forms without disregards what the participants said. As research results that there have been found lots of changes (19 important issues discussed below) in women’s lifestyle after initiating the parental property equal right system in Nepal. The policy program is highly appropriate and welfare for equal existence of women in the society

Moduli spaces of abstract and embedded Kummer varieties

In this paper, we investigate the construction of two moduli stacks of Kummer varieties. The first one is the stack [Formula: see text] of abstract Kummer varieties and the second one is the stack [Formula: see text] of embedded Kummer varieties. We will prove that [Formula: see text] is a Deligne-Mumford stack and its coarse moduli space is isomorphic to [Formula: see text], the coarse moduli space of principally polarized abelian varieties of dimension [Formula: see text]. On the other hand, we give a modular family [Formula: see text] of embedded Kummer varieties embedded in [Formula: see text], meaning that every geometric fiber of this family is an embedded Kummer variety and every isomorphic class of such varieties appears at least once as the class of a fiber. As a consequence, we construct the coarse moduli space [Formula: see text] of embedded Kummer surfaces and prove that it is obtained from [Formula: see text] by contracting the locus swept by a particular linear equivalence class of curves. We conjecture that this is a general fact: [Formula: see text] could be obtained from [Formula: see text] via a contraction for all [Formula: see text].

Those who ignore the past are doomed…to be heartless: Lay historicist theory is associated with humane responses to the struggles and transgressions of others

When one learns that current struggles or transgressions of an individual or group are rooted in an unfortunate history, one experiences compassion and reduced blame. Prior research has demonstrated this by having participants receive (or not) a concrete historicist narrative regarding the particular individual or group under consideration. Here, we take a different approach. We explore the possibility that everyday people show meaningful variation in a broad lay theory that we call lay historicism. Lay historicists believe that—as a general fact—people’s psychological characteristics and life outcomes are powerfully molded by their life histories. We present eight studies linking lay historicism to broad tendencies toward compassion and non-blaming. Collectively, Studies 1–5 suggest that lay historicism affects compassion and blame, respectively, via distinct mechanisms: (1) Lay historicism is associated with compassion because it creates a sense that—as a general fact—past suffering lies behind present difficulties, and (2) lay historicism is associated with blame mitigation because historicists reject the idea that—as a general fact—people freely and autonomously create their moral character. Thus, lay historicism increases compassion and decreases blame via distinct mechanisms. The remaining studies diversify our evidence base. Study 6 examines criminal justice philosophies rather than broad moral traits (as in the earlier studies) and shows that lay historicism is associated with preference for humane criminal justice philosophies. Study 7 moves from abstract beliefs to concrete situations and shows that lay historicism predicts reduced blaming of an irresponsible peer who is encountered face-to-face. One additional study—in our Supplemental Materials—shows that lay historicism predicts lower levels of blaming on implicit measures, although only among those who also reject lay controllability theories. Overall, these studies provide consistent support for the possibility that lay historicism is broadly associated with humane responding to the struggles and transgressions of others.

Feasibility and Acceptability of Digital Legacy-Making: An Innovative Story-Telling Intervention for Adults With Cancer

Background: This study examined the feasibility, burden and acceptability of a legacy-making intervention in adults with cancer and preliminary effects on patient quality-of-life (QOL) measures. Method: We conducted a Stage IB pilot, intervention study. The intervention was a digital video legacy-making interview of adults with advanced cancer to create a digital video of their memories and experiences. Baseline and post-video QOL assessments included: Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—General (FACT-G), Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Emotional Thermometers for distress, anxiety, anger, help and depression. Participants received a final copy of the digital video for distribution to their families. Results: Adults (n = 16) ages 38-83 years old with an advanced or life-limiting cancer diagnosis completed an intervention. Feasibility and acceptability was strong with 0% attrition. While the pilot study was not powered for quantitative significance, there were changes from baseline to post-intervention in the participants’ total or subscale FACT-G scores, PDI, HADS anxiety or depression scores, and Emotional Thermometer scores. Conclusions: A digital video legacy-making intervention is feasible for adults with cancer without significant negative outcomes for individuals completing the study. It remains unclear whether this intervention contributes to positive quality of life outcomes.

Age-Related Nuances in Knowledge Assessment

Although crystallized intelligence (gc) is a prominent factor in contemporary theories of individual differences in intelligence, its structure and optimal measurement are elusive. Analogously to the personality trait hierarchy, we propose the following hierarchy of declarative fact knowledge as a key component of gc: a general fact knowledge factor at the apex, followed by broad knowledge areas (e.g., natural sciences, social sciences, humanities), knowledge domains (e.g., chemistry, law, art), and nuances. In most scientific contexts we are predominantly concerned with aggregate levels, but we argue that the sampling of knowledge items strongly affects distinctions at higher levels of the hierarchy. We illustrate the magnitude of item-level heterogeneity by predicting chronological age differences through knowledge differences at different levels of the hierarchy. Analyses were based on an online sample of 1,629 participants between 18 and 70 years old who completed 120 broadly sampled declarative knowledge items across twelve domains. The results of linear and elastic net regressions, respectively, demonstrated that the majority of the age variance was located at the item level, and the strength of the prediction decreased with increasing aggregation. Knowledge nuances seem to tap important variance that is not covered with aggregate scores (e.g., sum or factor scores) and that is useful in the prediction of age. In turn, these effects extend our understanding how knowledge is acquired and imparted. On a more general stance, to gain new insights into the nature of knowledge, its optimal measurement and psychometric representation, item and person sampling issues should be considered.

COVID-19 across Countries: Situation and Lessons for Pandemic control

In the context of rapid worldwide spread of COVID-19 pandemic, many facts and issues are coming up. Some are general across borders while some others specific to particular context. We intend to review situation (condition, trend) and lessons (observations, and messages) from 9 different countries across the continents (in brief as contributed by respective authors). We have, here, the accounts and observations from Nepal, India, Japan (Asia); Norway and United Kingdom (Europe); United States of America (North America), Ecuador (South America), Australia and South Africa. General fact is that all need to maintain social distancing, adequate testing, aggressive contact tracing and treatment along with strategies to limit movements and crowds (e.g. lockdown). This pandemic has again shown that there is no border for disaster and pestilence. Borders are artificial. We all human being and whole world is a single unit. We have certain weaknesses, drawbacks and deficits as well as strengths that we need to understand and positively stand together in the battle against this pandemic.

Contemplating Historical Actors in Context

Part 1 Contemplating Historical Actors in Context This Part of the book takes seriously the historian’s imperative to do justice to different ways and circumstances of life in the past. One of the greatest obligations historians bear is not to caricature or traduce the historical objects of their investigations, and this obligation is honoured by care in depicting what one infers about the beliefs, motives, intentions, and situations of historical actors. The same obligation ought to be honoured for any actor under scrutiny, whether from a millennium ago or last year, whether Gulag guard or inmate. The discussion paves the way for greater clarity and consistency in contextual understanding by bringing into focus what the practice of contextualization implies and examining the logics of different sorts of contextualization. It is a guide to what it means to deliver on the commitment to take historical actors on their own terms, and it highlights the unavoidable evaluative implications of the process. It has implications for revising how certain historians have evaluated and how others might yet evaluate, but it is the general fact of evaluation rather than the direction of any particular evaluation that is central.