Some have argued that belief in God is intuitive, a natural (by-)product of the human mind given its cognitive structure and social context. If this is true, the extent to which one believes in God may be influenced by one’s more general tendency to rely on intuition versus reflection. Three studies support this hypothesis, linking intuitive cognitive style to belief in God. Study 1 showed that...

[1] Geotail measurements from within the equatorial inner plasma sheet at r 10–13 RE are used to show that a reduction in equatorial plasma pressure within the current wedge is a general feature of substorms and that this decrease is simultaneous with the wellknown expansion phase increase in energetic particle fluxes. The decrease in pressure is found to be due to a decrease in particle fluxes...

This paper presents a design methodology and analytic relationships for the optimal tapering of cascaded buffers which consider the effects of local interconnect capacitance. The method, constant capacitance-to-current ratio tapering (CRT), is based on maintaining the capacitive load to current drive ratio constant, and therefore, the propagation delay of each buffer stage also remains constant...

Abstract— Ananda Mohan suggested that the first New Chinese Remainder Theorem introduced by Wang can be derived from the constructive proof of the well-known Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) and claimed that Wang’s approach is the same as the one proposed earlier by Huang. Ananda Mohan’s proof is however erroneous and we show here that Wang’s New CRT I is a rewriting of an algorithm previously s...

In a ) , ( n t secret sharing scheme (SS), a dealer divides a secret into n shares in such a way that (a) the secret can be recovered successfully with t or more than t shares, and (b) the secret cannot be recovered with fewer than t shares. In a weighted secret sharing scheme (WSS), each share of a shareholder has a positive weight. The secret can be recovered if the overall weight of shares i...

Peer assessment has proven to be a promising assessment form, but there is only limited research about how to decrease the undesirable social effects that are inherent to the process, such as peer pressure and fear of disapproval. In previous research, anonymity has proven to be an important factor in peer assessment in higher education. In the current research, peer assessment was studied in s...

Background Interventions aiming to improve health systems should engage people on the front lines of health care delivery. Evaluations of these interventions should focus on the multiple change processes and outcomes resulting from their implementation into dynamic social systems. The PRIME intervention was designed to build health workers’ (HWs) skills by supporting and motivating them emotion...

Computational models of cardiac electrophysiology are being investigated for improved patient selection and planning of therapies like cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). However, their clinical applicability is limited unless their parameters are fitted to the physiology of an individual patient. In this paper, a method that estimates spatially-varying electrical diffusivities from routin...

An algorithm is presented that scales the pixel intensities of a computer generated greyscale image so that they are all displayable on a standard CRT. This scaling is spatially nonuniform over the image in that different pixels with the same intensity in the original image may have different intensities in the resulting image. The goal of this scaling transformation is to produce an image on t...