in the present study, modelling and vibration analysis of carbon nanotubes/ fiber/ polymer composite microplates are investigated. the governing equations of the carbon nanotubes/ fiber/ polymer composite microplates are derived based on first order shear deformation plate theory, rather than other plate theories, due to accuracy and simplicity of polynomial functions. the modified couple stres...

In service-oriented systems, negotiating service level agreements (SLAs) occupies a central role in the service usage cycle. It is during negotiations that parties are brought together in an interactive mechanism determined by the negotiation protocols. The choice and description of negotiation protocol determines the scope of information flow which in turn influences convergence upon an agreem...

The main goal of this study was to assess how the millennial generation perceives companies that have different social media policies and how such perception influences key variables for job-seeking behaviors, including perceived person-organization fit (POF), organizational attraction, and job pursuit intention. Results from a univariate general linear model and path analysis supported all of ...

The World Wide Web has become a phenomenon that now influences our everyday life in any possible areas and disciplines. This paper investigates how a grid equivalent of the WWW, the World Wide Grid can be created. We define requirements towards a workflow-oriented computational World Wide Grid and propose a solution how current production Grids can be connected in order to form the technical ba...

Social class reflects more than the material conditions of people’s lives. Objective resources (e.g., income) shape cultural practices and behaviors that signal social class. These signals create cultural identities among upperand lower-class individuals— identities that are rooted in subjective perceptions of social-class rank vis-à-vis others. Empirical studies find that perceptions of social...

T he biochemical, metabolic, honnonal, and neurotransmitter influences as they relate to hearing and balance problems have just begun to be explored. The inner ear is, in fact, an internal body organ. The diagnostic and therapeutic direction for the evaluation of the neurotological patient should be oriented to confinn an etiological mechanism. This can be accomplished only if our testing modal...

This paper presents a proposal for a grammar error typology oriented towards the development of an automatic grammar and style checker. Cognitively– motivated errors have been considered the first and foremost objective. In particular, in the area of grammar checking, the granularity of the error typology greatly influences the adequacy of the error messages shown to the final user during the d...

This study examined the relative influences of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), other psychopathology, and intimate partner alcohol and drug use on substance-related problems in U.S. veterans (242 couples, N = 484). Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that partner alcohol and drug use severity explained more variance in veteran alcohol use and drug use (20% and 13%, respectively) tha...

this study aims at empirically furthering awareness of the organization of interaction in efl classes. informed by the methodological framework of conversation analysis, it draws upon a corpus of 52 three-hour naturally-occurring classroom interaction to identify classroom interactional contexts based on the structuring of the pedagogic goals in turn-taking sequences. conversation analytic proc...

The aspect-oriented software development community has always shown great interest in language design, and simplicity is a very common criterion for the quality of such language design. However, we claim that simplicity is not so simple as it looks, and this paper proposes three different variants of simplicity in language design. Setting out from the recommended topic structure of papers for t...