Carolyn Caffrey Gardner is Information Literacy Coordinator at California State University, Dominguez Hills; e-mail: [email protected]. Gabriel J. Gardner is Reference & Instructional Librarian at California State University, Long Beach; e-mail: [email protected]. ©2017 Carolyn Caffrey Gardner and Gabriel J. Gardner, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/...

The authors present characteristics of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) proposed by Gardner as well as data, which may help to differentiate that syndrome with real psychological, physical and sexual abuse. The consequences of Gardner Syndrome for legal decisions in the court cases of child custody and the critique of this syndrome in forensic and psychiatric literature are also discussed, an...

It is current practice in in-vitro fertilization (IVF) to transfer embryos 48 h post-insemination at the 2–4 cell stage. However, it is now clear that this is a totally blind process. Firstly, embryos encounter an unsuitable environment, normally they would be in the oviduct. Secondly, motility of the uterus is related inversely to circulating progesterone. This problem of hypermotility of the ...

Hardware design methods come closer to software engineering. Proven techniques are further ahead than common awareness of them. Behavioral Synthesis means hardware compilation rather than CAD: Hardware compilation from register-transfer level sources or even from high-level programs like C sources. The programmer “programs” by himself the hardware he needs. This has become reality by novel dyna...

Energy efficiency has an increasingly important role to play in responses to climate change at both an individual and organisational level (IPCC, 2014). Personal consumption patterns (consumer behaviour, household energy use, dietary changes etc.) are identified as crucial elements in the move towards lower carbon emissions, thus efforts to promote energy-saving behaviour change form an importa...

—Migratory barriers, habitat loss, entrainment in irrigation canals, and overexploitation, especially at times of aggregation, have been suggested to explain the failure of Yellowstone River saugers Sander canadensis to return to historical abundances after a late-1980s decline that was attributed to drought. These factors are thought to affect saugers throughout their range and migratory large...

We derive an asymptotic formula for the amplitude distribution in a fully nonlinear shallow-water solitary wave train which is formed as the long-time outcome of the initial-value problem for the Su-Gardner (or one-dimensional Green-Naghdi) system. Our analysis is based on the properties of the characteristics of the associated Whitham modulation system which describes an intermediate “undular ...