The present study used a stratified random sample of undergraduate students at a major Metropolitan University in the Gauteng province of South Africa to examine aspects of the contact hypothesis as originally formulated by Gordon Allport. Specifically, the study sought to examine the effects of two social settings, namely, educational and religious settings on students’ attitudes toward interr...

The representatives ©f William and Mary were Fritz Zepht, president of the student body; Tommy Smith, president of the Honor Council; Greg. Mann, vice-president of the Honor Council; and Harry Stinson, junior member of the Honor Council. The .representatives of the University of Richmond were Gordon Conklin, president Of the student government; Mosley . Powell, treasurer of the student governme...

In the present article we present general linear stability criteria for multibreathers in Klein-Gordon chains at low coupling. Our method is constructive, which means that if we have a specific potential the method provides the allowed multibreathers and their characteristic exponent to leading order of approximation.

The basic model for valuation of firm is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM). When investors buy stocks, they expect to receive two types of cash flow: dividend in the period during which the stock is owned, and the expected sales price at the end of the period. In the extreme example, the investor keeps the stock until the company is liquidated; in such a case, the liquidating dividend becomes t...

We write the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz for the massive OSp(2|2) Gross Neveu and sigma models. We find evidence that the GN S matrix proposed by Bassi and Leclair [12] is the correct one. We determine features of the sigma model S matrix, which seem highly unconventional; we conjecture in particular a relation between this sigma model and the complex sine-Gordon model at a particular value of t...

This paper presents a formal model that enables us to define five distinct types of burden of proof in legal argumentation. Four standards of proof are shown to play a vital role in defining each type of burden. These standards of proof are defined in a precise way suitable for computing in argumentation studies generally, but are based on a long tradition of their use in law. The paper present...

Blogs are highly rich in opinion making their automatic processing appealing to marketing companies, the media, costumer centres, etc. TREC ran a Blog track in 2006 with two tasks: opinion retrieval and an open task. This document reports the experiments conducted at The Robert Gordon University (RGU) where we used Statistical Language Models combined with shallow parsing techniques for the opi...

We demonstrate that for the sine-Gordon theory at the free fermion point, the 2point correlation functions of the fields exp(iαΦ) for 0 < α < 1 can be parameterized in terms of a solution to a sinh-Gordon-like equation. This result is derived by summing over intermediate multiparticle states and using the form factors to express this as a Fredholm determinant. The proof of the differential equa...

This paper examines the stock price sensitivity to dividend changes. The Dividend Signaling, the Free-Cash-Flow, the Maturity and the Catering Hypotheses all predict an average positive (negative) reaction to announcement of a dividend increase (decrease). However, these hypotheses have different cross-sectional predictions. This paper documents that the positive stock price response to dividen...