The Delight Design Platform Project is managed by The University of Tokyo as part of the Crossministerial Strategic Innovation Program (SIP) which is organized by Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. This project recommends using 1DCAE design tools in the concept phase of the product development. In the Delight Design Platform, new product concepts are simulated and evaluated as 1DCAE models. O...

Rhinoplasty is a demanding task, especially when augmentation of the nasal contour is required. Autologous cartilage grafts are challenging. Contour and alignment of the graft are difficult goals. It is presented a case of a successfully nasal dorsum augmentation in a secondary rhinoplasty with the Turkish Delight technique and a brief review of literature. A 33-years-old female, with history o...

Professor John Coffee is one of the most insightful and imaginative scholars of modern corporate finance, and I am delighted that he has turned his fertile mind to the study of enforcement in securities regulation. On the view that extension is the sincerest form of flattery, I am especially pleased to see that Professor Coffee has found my own earlier work on regulatory intensity as a useful s...

I am delighted to have the opportunity of speaking on the issue of development of financial markets along with Mr. Christian Noyer, Governor of the Banque de France. He has displayed a deep commitment to the development of financial markets over the years and we heard a very thoughtful speech from him on this subject at the Reserve Bank just two days ago. His approach to financial markets is ma...

Dependable data storage in wireless sensor networks is becoming increasingly important, due to the lack of reliability of the individual sensors. Recently, data centric storage (DCS) has been proposed to manage in network sensed data. DCS reconsiders ideas and techniques successfully proposed in peer to peer systems within the framework of wireless sensor networks. In particular it assume that ...

Expectancies of success are widely thought to influence people's emotional reactions to performance outcomes: The lower one's expectancies, the more delighted one should be following success and the less disappointed one should be following failure. Although this proposition has been accepted almost as a truism, a review of the literature reveals that it has not been tested adequately. In this ...

Like everyone else who is a part of the celebration of the 80th year of Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein, the invitation to include my work in this collection has delighted, honoured and overwhelmed me. I have known Zena and Mervyn since I was 30, both my entire life as an independent scientist and my entire life as a mother. That I have been able to be both has been due to the example of Zena, mor...

Dear colleagues, I would like to congratulate the editorial team of the Arab Journal of Urology, the official journal of the Arab Association of Urology. In particular I would like to acknowledge the enormous contribution that Professor Shokeir has made in assembling this team for this important journal. He has also encouraged several key leaders in urology to be involved in the international e...

Thirty-nine commercial varieties of head cabbage were evaluated for feeding preference of the diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella, at Kula, Hawaii, USA. Varieties were evaluated for density of caterpillars, extent of feeding damage and percentage of marketable heads. Twelve out of 39 (31%) varieties that showed the least DBM caterpillar damage and produced high percentage of marketable ...

Recognizing that a consumer’s congruity judgment with a store image can be formed with both actual and ideal self-images, this study investigates the differential effects that these two congruity judgments might have on a consumer’s evaluation of an online store. The results indicate that the closer the image of an online store is to the consumer’s actual self, the more favorably the store is e...