The concept of "calling" has evolved from a religiously oriented description of occupation to an integrated, broad, and multidimensional construct that is associated with optimal vocational outcomes, personal fulfillment and meaning, and contribution to the "greater good." This article investigates the relevance of calling in the parental domain and explores the experience of calling in child r...

In this paper we present several simple performance models for computationally intense remote procedure calls. Previous analyses of remote procedure call have dwelt largely on how to reduce call overhead for computationally trivial remote procedure call. Experimental determination the values of the parameters of the models are shown for a variety of network sizes. Conclusions are drawn for the ...

While Nalimov’s endgame tables for Western Chess are the most used today, their Depth-to-Mate metric is not the only one and not the most effective in use. The authors have developed and used new programs to create tables to alternative metrics and recommend better strategies for endgame play.

Endgame databases have previously been built based on complete analysis of endgame positions. In the domain of Checkers, where endgame databases consisting of 39 trillion positions have already been built, it would be beneficial to be able to build select portions of even larger databases, without fully computing portions of the database that will almost never be needed. We present a new win-lo...

Temporal variation represents an important component in understanding the structure of ecological communities and species coexistence. We examined calling phenology of an assemblage of anurans in the Gran Chaco ecoregion of Bolivia by deploying automated recording devices to document nocturnally vocalizing amphibians nightly at seven ponds from 20 January 2011 until 31 October 2011. Using logis...

Recently, research in pragmatics has turned to the analysis of online impoliteness in light of the growing importance of computer-mediated communication and the prevalence of online aggression in such contexts. However, although name-calling and other impoliteness strategies have been examined in various languages, similar research in Greek is still scarce. Therefore, this paper focuses on the ...

In cricket frogs, Acris crepitans, sexually active males can switch between calling and noncalling (satellite) mating strategies and injections of the neuropeptide arginine vasotocin (AVT) stimulate calling behavior. We report here that this behavioral variation of animals under field conditions is associated with variations in AVT-immunoreactive (AVT-ir) staining in distinct brain nuclei. In b...