As if fueled by its own fire, curiosity and speculation regarding botnet sizes abounds. Among researchers, in the press, and in the classroom—the questions regarding the widespread effect of botnets seem never-ending: what are they? how many are there? what are they used for? Yet, time and time again, one lingering question remains: how big are today’s botnets? We hear widely diverging answers....

An important function of the self is to identify external objects that are potentially personally relevant. We suggest that such objects may be identified through mere ownership. Extant research suggests that encoding information in a self-relevant context enhances memory (the so-called 'self-reference effect'), thus an experiment was designed to test the impact of ownership on memory performan...

This list is offered as a supplemental resource to the video series located at z.umn.edu/cmhpbh. It is for those interested in exploring in-depth issues related to the promotion of children’s mental health. Included are broad conceptualizations and frameworks relating to mental health as a public health issue, calls to better connect education and public health fields around mental health promo...

A pure Silicate host namely Sr2MgSi2O7 as a support for a long-lasting afterglow when dopped with rare-earth elements was sought after. To this end the process of obtaining firing temperatures of the above mentioned phase in normal condition was carried out using suggested wet and dry methods. The degree of purity obtained in these preparatory methods as wel...

errors (SEs), from which one can calculate confidence intervals to reach the conclusions we made – that the social gradient in non-fatal accidents appears not to be increasing and the total rates are falling in men. The data published in the Health Survey for England (HSE) 2001 refer to social class of the head of the household, as is now customary in the HSE, while the rates presented in our p...

Title: Patterns of Long Term Care in 29 European countries: evidence from an exploratory study. We would like to thank you for revising our manuscript. We also thank the reviewers for their critical comments, which helped us to improve our article significantly. Please, find below our point to point response to the comments. Responses to Editorial requests We thank you for having reminded us to...