Two archival studies examined the relation between year-to-year shifts in temperature and violent and property crime rates in the United States. Study 1 examined the relation between annual average temperature and crime rate in the years 1950-1995. As expected, a positive relation between temperature and serious and deadly assault was observed, even after time series, linear year, poverty, and ...

Kim argues that weak and global supervenience are too weak to guarantee any sort of dependency. Of the three original forms of supervenience, strong, weak, and global, each commonly wielded across all branches of philosophy, two are thus cast aside as uninteresting or useless. His arguments, however, fail to appreciate the strength of weak and global supervenience. I investigate what weak and g...

brand creates value for both customer and organization, but the main source of this value, is located in actual and potential customers’ mind. it is obvious that mentality creation cannot be controlled directly. this article aimed to illustrate the importance of branding in banks of iran and demonstrate the relation between images created from marketing activities and customers’ mentality, rela...

We examine the role of family- and individual-level protective factors in the relation between exposure to ethnic-political conflict and violence and posttraumatic stress among Israeli and Palestinian youth. Specifically, we examine whether parental mental health (lack of depression), positive parenting, children's self-esteem, and academic achievement moderate the relation between exposure to ...

The notion of positive implicative vague ideals in BCKalgebras is introduced. A relation between a vague ideal and a positive implicative vague ideal is discussed. Characterizations of a positive implicative vague ideal are considered. 2010 AMS Classification: 06F35, 03G25, 03E72

Although earlier studies have related positive emotions to attentional broadening, recent findings point out the complexity of this relation and show that these broadening effects interact with factors such as characteristics of the information that is presented. Besides stimuli characteristics, individual characteristics such as the presence of depressive symptoms could also influence the broa...

This research examines effective social and family factors toward delinquent behavior. It is a survey research and uses structured questionnaire for gathering the data. A representative sample is 350 students. The result shows that there is a reverse and significant relation among religiousness, the level of parents control of children, family engagement, socio-economic status and school engage...

Representation of a granule, relation and operation between two granules are mainly researched in granular computing. Hyperbox granular computing classification algorithms (HBGrC) are proposed based on interval analysis. Firstly, a granule is represented as the hyperbox which is the Cartesian product of $N$ intervals for classification in the $N$-dimensional space. Secondly, the relation betwee...