Researchers have found that religious affiliation, religious attendance, religious beliefs, and prayer are associated with teen sexual attitudes and behavior.(Wallace & Williams, 1997; Whitehead, Wilcox, & Rostosky, 2001) Holding strong religious beliefs and praying are linked to reduced sexual activity among adolescents (Meier, 2003; Resnick et al., 1997) and teens (girls in particular) from m...

In this paper we present a system named EasyCmd that provides voice navigation on the desktop of Microsoft Window 9x system. Speech recognition engine for EasyCmd is much similar to that for dictation machine. Statistical Knowledge Based Frame Synchronous Search algorithm (SKBFSS) and Word Search Tree (WST) technologies are applied for acoustic decoding. Recognition Score Gap (RSG) is used for ...

This study investigated the effects of religious education on student religious identity over and above parent religiosity by examining student perceptions of two aspects of teacher functioning: teacher caring and teacher as role-model. We posited that effects of these variables on students' religious identity are mediated by student perceptions that the school provides a non-alienating religio...

This paper studies the relation between execution and verification. A simple imperative language with execution and verification commands is introduced. A machine only executes execution commands of a program, while the compiler only performs the verification commands. Common commands in other languages can be defined as a combination of execution and verification commands. Design of verifiers ...

We describe a family of MPI applications we call the Parallel Unix Commands. These commands are natural parallel versions of common Unix user commands such as ls, ps, and find, together with a few similar commands particular to the parallel environment.We describe the design and implementation of these programs and present some performance results on a 256-node Linux cluster. The Parallel Unix ...

We describe a family of MPI applications we call the Parallel Unix Commands. These commands are natural parallel versions of common Unix user commands such as ls, ps, and find, together with a few similar commands particular to the parallel environment.We describe the design and implementation of these programs and present some performance results on a 256-node Linux cluster. The Parallel Unix ...

This file defines commands to use the old German fonts for Fraktur, Schwabacher, and Gothic designed by Yannis Haralambous. To access them, use the package oldgerm in a \usepackage command. gothfamily frakfamily swabfamily This package option defines the commands \ \ \ \gothfamily, \frakfamily and \swabfamily to switch to the corresponding font families (thus these commands behave similar as \s...

Within the last few years the relationship between religiousness and psychosocial adjustment has become a subject of increasing interest. However, previous research did not explicitly differentiate between dispositional religious commitment and situation-specific religious coping. The current cross-sectional study investigated the relative power of religious commitment, positive and negative re...

OBJECTIVE Multiple aspects of religion have been linked with a variety of physical health outcomes; however, rarely have investigators attempted to empirically test the mechanisms through which religiosity impacts health. The links between religious participation, religious coping, and diurnal cortisol patterns over a 10-year period in a national sample of adults in the United States were inves...