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Management Science Letters Investigating how high school deaf students spend their leisure time
No full textThis paper presents an investigation on deaf students' interests in spending their leisure times. We design a questionnaire and distribute among all deaf students who are enrolled in high schools in two provinces of Iran. The questionnaire consists of three parts, in the first part, we ask female and male deaf students about their interests in various entertainment activities in Likert scale. In terms of gender, we find out that walking inside or outside house is number one favorite exercise for female students while male students mostly prefer to walk on the streets. Although male students prefer to go biking or running activities, female students prefer to go for picnic or similar activities. This could be due to limitations on female for running or biking inside cities. While going to picnic with members of family or friends is the third popular activity for male students, stretching exercises is third most popular activity among female students. Breathing exercise is the fourth most popular activity among both male and female students. The second part of the survey is associated with the barriers for having no exercise among deaf students. According to our survey, while lack of good attention from public and ordinary people on exercising deaf students is believed to be number one barrier among male students, female students blame lack of transportation facilities as the most important barrier. However, both female and male students believe these two items are the most important factors preventing them to exercise. Lack of awareness for exercising deaf students and lack of good recreational facilities are the third most important barriers among male and female students
PROGRESS ON THE MICE TRACKER SOLENOID
No full textAbstract This report describes the 400 mm warm bore tracker solenoid for the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment (MICE
Effect of Superconducting Fault Current Limiters on Successful Interruption of Circuit Breakers
No full textAbstract. The penetration of DG systems in distribution systems can result in the increase of the short circuit current level. The application of the fault current limiter (FCL) would not only decrease the stress on network devices, but also can offer a connection to improve the reliability of the power system. There are various types of FCLs, which are made of different superconducting materials and have different designs. There are several kinds of SFCLs, which can be classified in three types such as the resistive type, the inductive type and bridge type SFCL. In this paper, the transient recovery voltage (TRV) analysis, based on the electromagnetic transient program (EMTP), is used to investigate the behavior of the each three types SFCL installed in an electrical distribution grid. Simulation results show that the TRV can be damped in the presence of the resistive and bridge type SFCL during fault clearing period
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Get PDFABSTRACT Aspergillus was first catalogued in 1729 by the Italian priest and biologist Pier Antonio Micheli. Viewing the fungi under a microscope, Micheli was reminded of the shape of an aspergillum (holy water sprinkler), from Latin spargere (to sprinkle), and named the genus accordingly. Aspergillus is a type of mould which is found everywhere in the air and soil worldwide, especially in autum and winter in northern hemisphere. Only a few of these types of moulds can cause illness in human, animals. Although Aspergillus flavus is the second leading cause of both invasive and non-invasive aspergillosis, aspergillomas have rarely been associated with this species, the vast majority of cases being due to Aspergillus fumigatus. Here we describe a rare case report of pulmonary aspergilloma without any predisposing factors caused by Aspergillus flavus
Study of Heating Time of test model and Application in Low Density Wind Tunnel Using Infrared Thermography
Get PDFAbstract The relation between the model heating time and constant heat transfer rate assumption is analyzed. The study indicates that the shorter is the model heating time, the better is constant heat transfer rate approximation. The typical test results obtained with infrared thermographic technique on the hypersonic winged vehicle as well as heating effect on the flat plate model caused by plume flow are presented
Computation of Bed Load Evolution In Reservoirs مستخلص والقنوات اخلزانات يف للجريان القاع وتغريات اجملروف الطمي إنتقال )حماكاه( لنمذجة الضرورية املطلوبات من املتطلبات تلك على الورقة هذه وتركز . ً ورياضياتيا ً ف
No full textActivity and vulnerability: what family arrangements are at risk?
Get PDFABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to compare different family models according to the typology proposed by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, or National Census Bureau), to verify whether families headed by women really represent the most vulnerable or "at-risk" family arrangement. The latter is the commonsense notion that legitimizes the framework of feminization of poverty, in vogue in the last two decades and with considerable impact on the design of anti-poverty social policies. The current empirical study disaggregates the employment data (employment rate, mean wages, workweek) not only by gender (identifying differences between men and women), but also breaking down the data for women, comparing the situation of women heads-of-families versus wives. In terms of women's full participation in the work market, the effect of conjugality is even more harmful than motherhood (presence of children). Key words: gender and work market; feminization of poverty; gender inequalities Much is spoken of the enormous vulnerability of families with children, notably those headed by lone mothers (i.e. with no spouse). Incontestably, Brazil lacks permanent, universal family-support policies and, therefore, much of what could be de-commodified through public policies to compensate families properly for their (i.e. the women's) contribution is not. As a result, families themselves bear all such costs privately. However, given this enormous vacuum in terms of family-friendly policies, the question is: is the greatest onus borne by families headed by lone women? Which family arrangements are rendered most precarious by the absence of a social protection system to provide security, reduce vulnerability and promote equity? The labour market and the nature and scope of the social protection system are two factors that explain the greater or lesser degree of social vulnerability, and are thus intricately related to the levels of poverty and inequality observed in a society. Below, it will be seen how they operate on gender inequalities. It is well known that, in Brazil, not only has the schooling gap between the sexes been reversed in favour of women at all levels of schooling since the mid-80
dissociative Experiences are Associated with Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in a Non-clinical Sample: A latent Profile Analysis disosiyatif Yaşantılar Klinik Olmayan Örneklemde Obsesif-Kompulsif Belirtilerle İlişkilidir: Gizil Profil Analiziyle Bir İncelem
Get PDFArc hi ves of Neu ropsy chi atry 2014; 51: 253-262 Nö rop si ki yat ri Ar fli vi 2014; 51: 253-262 ÖZET Giriş: Obsesif-kompulsif belirtiler ve disosiyatif yaşantılar arasındaki manidar ilişkilere dair çalışmaların sayısı artmaktadır. Bu araştırmada üniversite öğrencilerinden oluşan bir Türk örnekleminde disosiyatif semptomotoloji ve obsesif-kompulsif belirtilerin alt boyutları arasındaki ilişkiler gizil sınıf analizi kullanılarak elde edilen homojen alt gruplarda incelenmiştir. Yön tem : 2976 üniversite öğrencisinden elde edilen Disosiyatif Yaşantılar Ölçeği (DYÖ) maddelerinden oluşan veriye, gizil sınıf analizine dayalı son zamanlarda geliştirilen bir sınıflama yöntemi olarak gizil profil analizi uygulanmıştır. Obsesif-kompulsif belirtiler, anksiyete ve depresyon şiddeti bakımından gruplar arası farklar multinomial regresyon analizleriyle değerlendirilmiştir. Gizil sınıf olasılıklarının obsesif-kompulsif alt ölçekleri, anksiyete ve depresyonla olan ilişkisi Pearson momentler çarpımı korelasyon katsayıları hesaplanarak değerlendirilmiştir. Bul gu lar: Gizil profil analizi sonuçları disosiyasyon kavramına ilişkin süreksizlik modellerini destekleyici ek kanıtlar sunmuştur. DYÖ maddelerine göre yapılan analiz sonucunda üç alt grup arasında önemli farklılıklar olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Örneklemin önemli bir yüzdesi (%42) yüksek disosiyatif özellik gösteren sınıf içinde kümelenmiştir. Sonraki analizlerde obsesifkompulsif belirtilerin gizil sınıflar arasında manidar düzeyde farklılaştığı görülmüştür. Obsessif-kompulsif belirtiler ve disosiyatif semptomotoloji arasındaki ilişkiler ele alındığında, düşük disosiyasyon düzeylerinin obsesif-kompulsif belirtilerle başa çıkmada tampon işlevi gördüğü halde yüksek disosiyasyonun artmış obsesif-kompulsif belirtilerle ilişkili olduğu gözlenmiştir. So nuç: Araştırma sonucunda disosiyasyon kavramının en iyi tipolojik bir yaklaşım içinde açıklanabileceği, disosiyatif semptomotolojinin obsesifkompulsif belirtilerdeki artışa neden olurken uyuma yönelik bir başa çıkma stratejisi olarak da işlev gördüğü sonucuna varılmıştır. ABS TRACT introduction: There has been a burgeoning literature considering the significant associations between obsessive-compulsive symptoms and dissociative experiences. In this study, the relationsips between dissociative symtomotology and dimensions of obsessive-compulsive symptoms were examined in homogeneous sub-groups obtained with latent class algorithm in an undergraduate Turkish sample. Met hod: Latent profile analysis, a recently developed classification method based on latent class analysis, was applied to the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) item-response data from 2976 undergraduates. Differences in severity of obsessivecompulsive symptoms, anxiety and depression across groups were evaluated by running multinomial logistic regression analyses. Associations between latent class probabilities and psychological variables in terms of obsessive-compulsive subtypes, anxiety, and depression were assessed by computing Pearson's productmoment correlation coefficients. Re sults: The findings of the latent profile analysis supported further evidence for discontinuity model of dissociative experiences. The analysis empirically justified the distinction among three sub-groups based on the DES items. A marked proportion of the sample (42%) was assigned to the high dissociative class. In the further analyses, all sub-types of obsessive-compulsive symptoms significantly differed across latent classes. Regarding the relationships between obsessivecompulsive symptoms and dissociative symptomatology, low dissociation appeared to be a buffering factor dealing with obsessive-compulsive symptoms; whereas high dissociation appeared to be significantly associated with high levels of obsessivecompulsive symptoms. Conc lu si on: It is concluded that the concept of dissociation can be best understood in a typological approach that dissociative symptomatology not only exacerbates obsessive-compulsive symptoms but also serves as an adaptive coping mechanism. (Arc hi ves of Neu ropsy chi atry 2014; 51: 253-262
Hydrogen-Bonded Networks Based on Cobalt(II), Nickel(II), and Zinc(II) Complexes of N,N'-Diethylurea
Get PDFN,N'-diethylurea (DEU) was employed as a ligand to form the octahedral complexes [M(DEU) 2+ cations and counterions self-assemble to form hydrogen-bonded 2D architectures in 2-4 that conform to the kgd (kagome dual) network, and a 3D hydrogen-bonded rtl (rutile) network in 1. The nature of the resulting supramolecular structures is influenced by the nature of the counter-ion. The complexes were also characterized by vibrational spectroscopy (IR)
DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR AGRARIAN COMPANIES IN SERBIA
Get PDFAbstract The aim of this paper is to inform the employees of the agrarian sector in Serbia about the key elements necessary for the effective international marketing activities of the company. Namely, the previous period was dominated by a production orientation which had not respect for market requirements