Introduction 1 Acknowledgment 1 Notation 1 1. The tensor product with a motive of weight zero 3 1.1. The tensor product of two motives of weight zero 3 1.2. The tensor product of a torus with a motive of weight 0 3 1.3. The tensor product of an abelian scheme with a motive of weight 0 4 1.4. The tensor product of an extension of an abelian scheme by a torus with a motive of weight 0 4 2. The 1-...

The aim was to better understand the role of motives in exercise participation. It was hypothesised that motives influence exercise participation by influencing behavioural regulation, and that motives are themselves influenced by personality traits. Data were from a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 252 office workers, mean age 40 years. Analysis was by structural equation modelling. Acc...

This paper examines how aversion to risk and aversion to intertemporal substitution determine the strength of the precautionary saving motive in a two-period model with Selden/Kreps-Porteus preferences. For small risks, we derive a measure of the strength of the precautionary saving motive which generalizes the concept of "prudence" introduced by Kimball (1990b). For large risks, we show that d...

Reaction centers of the phototrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris were introduced as proton motive force-generating systems in membrane vesicles of two anaerobic bacteria. Liposomes containing reaction center-light-harvesting complex I pigment protein complexes were fused with membrane vesicles of Streptococcus cremoris or Clostridium acetobutylicum by freeze-thawing and sonication. Ill...

Sex hormones have been reported to dynamically modulate the expression of implicit motives, a concept that has previously been thought to be relatively stable over time. This study investigates to what extent the need for affiliation, power, and achievement, as well as the form of enactment of these needs as measured with the Operant Motive Test (OMT), is affected by cycle-phase dependent sex h...

The authors tested the hypothesis that after motive arousal, individuals with an inhibited power motive (IPM) would excel at a persuasive task and explored the behavioral strategies IPM individuals use to that purpose. Sixty-eight participants presented their point of view on a controversial subject to another person. Power motivation and inhibition were both assessed by a picture-story test. P...

Liyou Xu, Jingyun Zhang, Zhili Zhou, Xianghai Yan Vehicle & Motive Power Engineering College, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, [email protected] Vehicle & Motive Power Engineering College, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang, Henan Province, China, [email protected] Vehicle & Motive Power Engineering College, Henan University of Sci...