This thesis explores new mobile media sharing applications by building, deploying, and studying their use. While we share media in many different ways both on the web and on mobile phones, there are few ways of sharing media with people physically near us. Three systems were designed, built, and studied: Push!Music, Columbus, and Portrait Catalog, and a fourth commercially available system was ...

The literature of American legal history is primarily a history of federal and state governments, creating the false impression that these governments have produced and enforced all relevant law. Indeed, there seems to be a widely held belief that law and order could not exist in a society without the organized authoritarian institutions of the state. But while law can be imposed from above by ...

heat exchangers are one of the most important devices of mechanical systems in modernsociety. most industrial processes involve the transfer of heat and more often they requirethe heat transfer process to be controlled. a heat exchanger is the heat exchanged betweentwo media, one being cold and the other being hot. there are different types of heatexchanger, but the type which is widely used in...

Building on the work of S. M. Sales, who related contemporaneous economic threat to authoritarian behaviors, two studies tested the hypothesis that threat is associated with relatively more attraction to authoritarian churches and less attraction to nonauthoritarian churches. The hypothesis was supported in Study 1, when the annual percentage of changes in memberships (1928-1986) for two author...

A maternal authoritarian style has been related to the development of physical aggression during childhood and later future social problems; however, not too many studies have detected other than individual or family factors that may buffer this maternal effect. This work examines whether daycare center attendance may moderate the relationships between a mother authoritarian style and physical ...

This study examined authoritative and authoritarian parenting and specific parenting practices among Chinese mothers with preschoolers. The final sample consisted of 463 mothers with their 3 to 7 year-olds from 11 preschools, in Taiwan. Mothers completed a Chinese translation of the Parenting Behavior Questionnaire that assessed their parenting practices. Findings indicated that the subscales o...

the goal of this article is to proposing a conceptual model explaining the information systems integration. in this paper, passing the concept of intra-organizational information systems integration, we emphasis on the concept of inter-organizational integration.the problem is what the information systems integration is, and which problems the organizations face.the method using in this researc...

Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine has given the world's democrats a renewed sense of unity and purpose. Galvanized by common threat existential peril, Western democracies have imposed biting sanctions Russia, boosted weapons aid shipments to Ukraine, increased military spending dramatically. This vigorous unified response from contrasts their muted replies past decade democratic malaise, which wa...

A nyone who reads Jeremy Shearmur’s book will be struck by the degree to which Popper’s vast output is an integrated work. In particular, Popper’s political thought is closely connected with his explanation of science. One of Popper’s more impressive achievements was to expose the authoritarian element in the Western intellectual tradition. For instance, traditional theories of knowledge addres...