Three studies were conducted to examine the impact of being a numeric majority or minority in Hawai’i and U.S. mainland on the ethnic identity and self-esteem of Asian and European Americans. Results of Study 1 (N=214, M age=19.85 years) and Study 2 (N=215,M age=18.20 years) showed that Asian Americans who grew up on the U.S. mainland, where they are a numeric minority, reported higher ethnic i...

The conceptual design of parallel robots can be dated back to the time when Gough established the basic principles of a device with a closed-loop kinematic structure (Gough 1956), that can generate specified position and orientation of a moving platform so as to test tire wear and tear. Based on this principle, Stewart designed a platform for use as an aircraft simulator in 1965 (Stewart 1965)....

The internal/external synchrotron shock scenario has proved very successful in interpreting the key observations about gamma–ray bursts. There still remains, however, some big uncertainties. The hottest issue concerns the nature of the progenitor, but there are also other problems concerning the global energetics, coupled with the issue of the degree of the collimation of the fireball. To be ef...

{ Whenever a sensor is mounted on a robot hand it is important to know the relationship between the sensor and the hand. The problem of determining this relationship is referred to as the hand-eye calibration problem. Hand-eye calibration is important in at least two types of tasks: (i) map sensor centered measurements into the robot workspace frame and (ii) allow the robot to precisely move th...

HC n=32 MDD n=30 DC n=18 DD n=15 Age mean(SD) 55.13 (16.28) 54.90 (13.67) 56.11 (11.06) 54.27 (8.32) F=0.06 p=0.98 Gender (M/F) 16/16 14/16 9/9 6/9 ?2=0.47 p=0.93 Magnetization Transfer Imaging Reveals Subcortical Biophysical Abnormalities in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Major Depression Shaolin Yang, Olusola Ajilore, Minjie Wu, Melissa Lamar, and Anand Kumar Department of Psychiatry, Univ...

In this paper, we present a joint cross-correlation analysis of the Archeops CMB maps at 143 and 217 GHz and the WMAP CMB maps at 41, 61 and 94 GHz with sky templates of projected galaxy density constructed from the 2MASS Extended Source catalog. These templates have been divided in patches sorted in decreasing galaxy density with a fixed number of pixels (we considered patches having 32, 64 an...

Abstract. A limit analysis numerical procedure for the determination of a lower bound on ultimate load human proximal femur is presented. The procedure, already applied by authors in different contexts, based simplified 3D geometrical model and assumption few geometric material data available relevant literature. perfectly plastic behaviour bone, due to phenomena starting at molecular scale, or...

The flow structure of a DNS of a flat-plate turbulent boundary layer (Wu & Moin 2010) is studied by combining the topological techniques developed by Chong et al. (1990) and Ooi et al. (1999) with the multiscale non-local geometric analysis of Bermejo-Moreno & Pullin (2008), extending the latter to include physical parameters in the analysis and relating them to the geometry of the educed struc...

In the article, “Evaluation of a combined posterior lateral and anteromedial approach in the treatment of terrible triad of the elbow: A retrospective study”, which appeared in Volume 96, Issue 22 of Medicine, the author byline should have appeared as “Xulin Wu, MM, Bensen Tang, BA, Weimin Zhu, BA, Guangfu Zhou, BA, Fuyao Liu, BA, Bing Qiu ∗ , BA, Hong-Wei Chen, MB, Zi-Yang Wang, MB.” The corre...

Objective: The existing literature on the application of real options in maritime economics is rather limited. Bendall & Stent (2003, 2005, 2007) show how investing in a new ship or maritime technology can incorporate an option value. Another application is elaborated by Bjerksund & Ekern (1995), discussing the value of mean-reverting cash flows through contingent claim analysis, applied to tim...