390 research outputs found
Being more honest but not necessarily more intelligent than others: Generality and explanations for the Muhammed Ali effect
Two questionnaire studies were conducted ({N} = 80 and {N} = 175) ti examine the structure and the social anchoring of the organizing principles of personal and governmental involvement concerning human rights. The results indicated that these organizing principles had, as hypothesized one abstract and one applied dimension. The second study evaluated the correlations between these dimensions and values. Results were consistent with Schwartz's (1992) model predicting both the internal structure of values and their relations with other variables. Amongst other results, self-transcendence values were positively correlated with the abstract involvements and the applied personal involvement, and negatively with the applied governmental involvement. The results concerning the links between different levels of social anchorings, particularly between the value types and variables such as religious affiliation and practice political preferences, and social and political activism were also presented and discussed
Telecommunications systems design techniques handbook
Handbook presents design and analysis of tracking, telemetry, and command functions utilized in these systems with particular emphasis on deep-space telecommunications. Antenna requirements are also discussed. Handbook provides number of tables outlining various performance criteria. Block diagrams and performance charts are also presented
Anatomy of a pressure-induced, ferromagnetic-to-paramagnetic transition in pyrrhotite: Implications for the formation pressure of diamonds
Meteorites and diamonds encounter high pressures during their formation or subsequent evolution. These materials commonly contain magnetic inclusions of pyrrhotite. Because magnetic properties are sensitive to strain, pyrrhotite can potentially record the shock or formation pressures of its host. Moreover, pyrrhotite undergoes a pressure-induced phase transition between 1.6 and 6.2 GPa, but the magnetic signature of this transition is poorly known. Here we report room temperature magnetic measurements on multidomain and single-domain pyrrhotite under nonhydrostatic pressure. Magnetic remanence in single-domain pyrrhotite is largely insensitive to pressure until 2 GPa, whereas the remanence of multidomain pyrrhotite increases 50\% over that of initial conditions by 2 GPa, and then decreases until only 33\% of the original remanence remains by 4.5 GPa. In contrast, magnetic coercivity increases with increasing pressure to 4.5 GPa. Below âŒ1.5 GPa, multidomain pyrrhotite obeys NĂ©el theory with a positive correlation between coercivity and remanence; above âŒ1.5 GPa, it behaves single domain-like yet distinctly different from uncompressed single-domain pyrrhotite. The ratio of magnetic coercivity and remanence follows a logarithmic law with respect to pressure, which can potentially be used as a geobarometer. Owing to the greater thermal expansion of pyrrhotite with respect to diamond, pyrrhotite inclusions in diamonds experience a confining pressure at Earthâs surface. Applying our experimentally derived magnetic geobarometer to pyrrhotite-bearing diamonds from Botswana and the Central African Republic suggests the pressures of the pyrrhotite inclusions in the diamonds range from 1.3 to 2.1 GPa. These overpressures constrain the mantle source pressures from 5.4 to 9.5 GPa, depending on which bulk modulus and thermal expansion coefficients of the two phases are used
An affordable methodology for quantifying waterborne microplastics - an emerging contaminant in inland-waters
The occurrence of microplastics in marine habitats is well documented and of growing concern. The presence of these small (<5 mm) pieces of plastic is less well recorded in inland water systems. In this paper, we determine a cost-efficient and straightforward method for the collection and identification of microplastics in UK inland waters. We found pieces of microplastic from all sample sites ranging from over 1000 L-1 in the River Tame, to 2.4 L-1 in Loch Lomond. The presence of microplastics in all waters tested suggest it should now be classed as an emergent contaminant, with routine monitoring required
When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Social identification and individual effort in intergroup competition.
Based on social identity theory, the authors predicted that in ongoing intergroup competition, peopleâs strength of social identification will have a positive impact on their behavioral efforts on behalf of an ingroup when its current status is low, whereas this will not be the case when its current status is high. In a first experiment, male participants showed the expected pattern of behavior. Female participants, however, tended to display opposite reactions. As a possible explanation, it was argued that the experimental procedure may have inadvertently evoked a gender-based stereotype threat for female participants. In an attempt to obtain more consistent support for their hypothesis, the authors therefore replicated the experiment with modifications to avoid such a threat. These changes proved to be effective in the sense that this time the predicted interaction effect between ingroup identification and current group status was obtained for both male and female participants
Security Analysis of Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks distribute a common sensing and computing task within the large
number of participants that use wireless communication. Such networks require a
self-organizing and energy-aware set of protocols. Several protocols have beed designed
for such environments, however to make certain proof of their secureness, their formal analysis is required.
In our article, we show an analysis framework capable of proving security
properties of such protocols. Our methodology is based on the CSP process algebra.
We will demonstrate its power by giving an attack possibility for an existing protocol, and the extensibility of the model will also be pointed
Are There Quantum Effects Coming from Outside Space-time? Nonlocality, free will and "no many-worlds"
Observing the violation of Bell's inequality tells us something about all
possible future theories: they must all predict nonlocal correlations. Hence
Nature is nonlocal. After an elementary introduction to nonlocality and a brief
review of some recent experiments, I argue that Nature's nonlocality together
with the existence of free will is incompatible with the many-worlds view of
quantum physics.Comment: Talk presented at the meeting "Is Science Compatible with Our Desire
for Freedom?" organised by the Social Trends Institute at the IESE Business
School in Barcelona, Octobre 201
A General, Rhodium-Catalyzed, Synthesis of Deuterated Boranes and N-Methyl Polyaminoboranes
The rhodium complex [Rh(Ph2PCH2CH2CH2PPh2)(η6âFC6H5)][BArF4], 2, catalyzes BH/BD exchange between D2 and the boranes H3Bâ
NMe3, H3Bâ
SMe2 and HBpin, facilitating the expedient isolation of a variety of deuterated analogues in high isotopic purities, and in particular the isotopologues of Nâmethylamineâborane: R3Bâ
NMeR2 1âdx (R=H, D; x=0, 2, 3 or 5). It also acts to catalyze the dehydropolymerization of 1âdx to give deuterated polyaminoboranes. Mechanistic studies suggest a metalâbased polymerization involving an unusual hybrid coordination insertion chainâgrowth/stepâgrowth mechanism
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