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... FUZZY AND NEUTROSOPHIC ANALYSIS OF WOMEN WITH HIV/AIDS With Specific Reference To Rural Tamil Na... ... Rural Tamil Nadu in India W. B. Vasantha Kandasamy Department of Mathematics Indian Institute of Technology, Madras Chennai – 60003... ...c.in web: http://mat.iitm.ac.in/~wbv Florentin Smarandache Department of Mathematics University of New Mexico Gallup, NM 87301, USA e-mail... ...te and tumbler in which we eat and drink tea are thought to be so unclean and infectious so they don’t touch it.” Additional Observation: She is ... ...h her husband for 4 years. She says she cannot question him for he would not listen to her. He was so characterless that even he used to have sex w... ...ly about her. She says the fluid oozing from the blisters in her body is also infectious for it will spread HIV/AIDS. To prevent this disease the on... ...hey are frightened to treat it. She says the fluid from these blisters is so infectious that if children touch this fluid they would get HIV/AIDS. ... ...o far he talked freely to us right in front of her, while she was attentively listening. But she looked cheerful and composed. He seemed to be more ... ...DS have contracted it only from their husbands (We don’t include CSWs in this list). This is in keeping with the gender inequality that is prevalent...

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The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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...After researching 1,300's of natural cures and home remedies, spending months sifting through hundreds of reports and studies, and putting my findings to the test on real people in my natural healing clinic... I can say that the majority of natural...

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...men, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest....

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

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