Splintage external fixation in Chinese Mongolian osteopathy is a biological macroscopic model. In this model, the ideas of self-life "unity of mind and body" and vital natural "correspondence of nature and human" combine the physiological and psychological self-fixation with supplementary external fixation of fracture using small splints. This model implies macroscopic ideas of uncovering fixat...

Using data from a 31-year panel study, we evaluate both the reliability of measurement of family attitudes, relationships, and self-concepts and the stability of these variables across time. We also compare the reliability of measurement and the stability of variables across time in these domains of family life with the reliability and stability of behavioral dimensions. Our results provide con...

A dynamic two-sided matching market is considered. We examine two existing notions of stability—the core and recursive core—for this multi-period market and argue that they both have limitations. We define two new notions of stability and label them, self-sustaining stability and strict self-sustaining stability. Both concepts can be viewed as the recursive core with more stringent conditions f...

Dilatively stable processes generalize the class of infinitely divisible self-similar processes. We reformulate and extend the definition of dilative stability introduced by Iglói (2008) using characteristic functions. We also generalize the concept of aggregate similarity introduced by Kaj (2005). It turns out that these two notions are essentially the same for infinitely divisible processes. ...

Deployment of solar fuels technology requires photoanodes with long term stability, which can be accomplished using light absorbers that self-passivate under operational conditions. Several copper vanadates have been recently reported as promising photoanode materials, and their stability and self-passivation is demonstrated through a combination of Pourbaix calculations and combinatorial exper...

we consider a new type of integrable coupled nonlinear schrodinger (cnls)equations proposed by our self [submitted to phys. plasmas (2011)]. the explicitform of soliton solutions are derived using the hirota's bilinear method.we show that the parameters in the cnls equations only determine the regionsfor the existence of bright and dark soliton solutions. finally, throughthe linear stabili...

OBJECTIVES To examine: i) the mean changes in adolescent females' body mass index (BMI), global self-esteem, physical self-perceptions, social physique anxiety, physical activity, and dietary restraint; ii) the stability of measuring self-perceptions, BMI, self-esteem, physique anxiety, activity, and dietary restraint; and iii) the relationships among changes in these variables over 12 months. ...

Prior literature examines the direct relationship between personality traits and body esteem. This article explores the possibility that self-esteem mediates this relationship. 165 undergraduate women and 133 men (age 18-21; 42.6% Hispanic, 28.9% Asian, 28.5% Caucasian) completed items measuring personality traits (Big Five), self-esteem, and body esteem. Path analyses were used to test for med...