Weconducted two studies to examineperceptions of, and reactions to, ostracismoccurring either in-person or online. In study 1, participants read a vignette describing either in-person or online ostracism, then estimated their psychological and interpersonal responses as if they experienced such ostracism. Participants anticipated experiencing distress, and this was consistent across ostracismme...

From the first commentaries of Akhundzadeh to Jamalzadeh’s introduction to Yeki Bud YekiNabud, i.e., over a period of almost fifty years, we can see a collection of a few scattered commentaries on story and novel which are rarely noticed by researchers. These scattered commentaries can be regarded as the first literary manifests of story and novel. These critiques and commentaries include subje...

In this paper, we investigate various methods of classifying time– varying signals. In particular, we are interested in detecting acoustic emissions that may occur in concrete structures during imminent failure. This important classification problem will result in detecting and separating the distress signal from other natural or man made acoustic signals. Due to the time–varying nature of the ...

concrete pavements and precast members gained notoriety because of uncertainty over the cause of their distress. Because of the unexplained and complex nature of several of these cases, considerable debate and controversy have arisen in the research and consulting community. To a great extent, this has led to a misperception that the problems are more prevalent than actual case studies would in...

We present a dynamic structural model of integrated risk management that incorporates several motivations for managing risk. Risk management is enabled through a coordination of operating flexibility, liquidity management, and derivatives hedging policies. We analyze the value created by such integrated risk management strategies, and disintegrate this value in several ways to separate out the ...

Addressing a gap in process-oriented understanding of relations between marital conflict and children’s adjustment, propositions of the emotional security hypothesis from a family-wide perspective were tested in a longitudinal research design. Participants were 181 families and their 11–12 year-old-child (115 boys, 76 girls) living in Wales, in the United Kingdom. Relations between marital conf...

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A robust literature indicates that neuroticism has numerous negative implications for romantic relationships. But are there factors that can protect intimates from such implications? Given that negative affect accounts for part of the association between neuroticism and relationship distress, and given that the positive affect associated with sex may negate that negative affect, the authors pre...

traditions and manners of nuba is part of egyptian’s culture which is emerged in novelists’ works of nuba in various ways and most of the times they have been denied and objected; because ignorance and prejudice govern them, is routed in their culture and except in very few cases, they never change. the novel “playing over nuba mountains” by edris ali is one of the novels which is clearly analy...