Both monoand bisylide zwitterionic complexes of gold(I), [(C6F5){PhCH(PPh3)}Au] (4), [(C6F5)2(C6H4-p){CH(PPh3)}2Au2] (5) and [(C6F5)2(C6H4-m){CH(PPh3)}2Au2] (6) were prepared by THT substitution in [C6F5(THT)Au] (THT = tetrahydrothiophene) using deprotonated monoand bis-phosphonium salts. Lithiation of 4,4′-dibromo-2,3,5,6,2′ ,3′,5′,6′-octafluoro-1,1′biphenyl and transmetallation with [Cl(Ph3P)...

The N otre Dame A rm y ROTC b a tta lio n trudged through the woods and slept unde r the stars th is past weekend w h ile conducting their semi-annual field tra in ­ ing exercise. The field training, or FTX, is a m il i ta ry tra in in g event intended to prepare jun io rs fo r a leade rsh ip camp the summer before senior year. Over 80 cadets — freshman through juniors — and senior staff left N...

Users’ information privacy issue becomes an important challenge not only for SNS users but also for the SNS service providers and governing organizations. This study’s objectives are: (1) to study how assurance mechanisms affect SNS users’ self-disclosure intention by applying protection motivation theory (PMT), and (2) to empirically test the perceived privacy concern as part of the PMT in ord...

There are two alternative display metaphors for Augmented Reality (AR) screens: a see-through window or a magic mirror. Commonly used by task-support AR applications, the see-through display has not been compared with the mirror display in terms of user’s task performance, even though the “mirror” hardware is more accessible to general users. We conducted a novel experiment to compare participa...

Sustainability assessment is being increasingly viewed as an important tool to aid in the shift towards sustainability. However, this is a new and evolving concept and there remain very few examples of effective sustainability assessment processes implemented anywhere in the world. Sustainability assessment is often described as a process by which the implications of an initiative on sustainabi...

This paper examines the hypothesis that in a country where disclosure of higher than average achievement can be considered an appropriate justification for bullying, students are more likely to do badly in exams and collude more in assessed course work to ensure that their grades do not stand out. We examine this hypothesis by measuring how students perform when their position in a class is rep...

Simple, almost obvious as this may be, the idea that crime is partly caused by physical environment has been a controversial one among criminologists. In my presentation I will argue that the controversy is based on a misunderstanding about causes and will review what is now a large body of evidence that the physical environment plays an important part in crime. I will then review current appro...

Existing thermal-aware 3D placement methods assume that the temperature of 3D ICs can be optimized by properly distributing the power dissipations, and ignoring the heat conductivity of though-silicon-vias (TSVs). However, our study indicates that this is not exactly correct. While considering the thermal effect of TSVs during placement appears to be quite complicated, we are able to prove that...

Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry by Stephen P. Ryan Department of Economics Duke University

Hair-to-hair interaction is often ignored in human hair modeling, due to its computational and algorithmic complexity. In this paper, we present our experimental approach to simulate the complex behavior of long human hair, taking into account hairto-hair interactions. We describe a thin shell volume (TSV) model for enhancing hair realism by simulating complex hair-hair interaction. The TSV is ...