objectives: the present study explored the role of religious orientations to predict identity styles. in the past decades identity style has been one of the basic discussion in social and personality psychology. recently, religious orientation was converted to the core perspective in religious psychology. based on this, this study has been examined the role of religious orientations in predict ...

The adaptive immune responses of humans and of other jawed vertebrate species (gnasthostomata) are characterized by the B and T cells and their specific antigen receptors, the immunoglobulins (IG) or antibodies and the T cell receptors (TR) (up to 2.1012 different IG and TR per individual). IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system (http://www.imgt.org), was created in 1989 by M...

AltaVista, are essential tools in the quest to locate online information. This article reports research that used transaction log analysis to examine the characteristics and changes in AltaVista Web searching that occurred from 1998 to 2002. The research questions we examined are (1) What are the changes in AltaVista Web searching from 1998 to 2002? (2) What are the current characteristics of A...

In educational contexts the WWW can be viewed as source of edutainment that is quite effective on the entertainment side because most students are highly motivated to use the web but is much less successful on the educational side. Without a structuring mechanism that allows focus on specific learning domains, the usefulness of the web may be similar to having 500 channels of TV. Learning in th...

The paper will explore how the landscape types and the quest types are used in various games, how they structure the gameplay, how they act as bones for the game-content (graphics, dialogue, sound) and how they sometimes form the base on which a story is imposed and related to the player. The question then becomes, how does the quest structure influence the story structure? How do the limitatio...

Exfiltration from sewers poses negative environmental effects and health risks. Quantification of exfiltration is the first step towards solving these detrimental effects. QUEST/QUEST-C (Quantification of Exfiltration from Sewers with Artificial Tracers) methods were tested in this research. Two different tracers are used by these methods, in order to calculate mass balances rather than flow me...