COMPARISONS WITH OLYMPUS MONS LAVA FANS, MARS. J.E. Bleacher, W.B. Garry, J.R. Zimbelman, P.W. Richardson. Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Code 698, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, 20771, [email protected], Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian Institution, PO Box 37012, National Air and Space Museum MRC 315, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, Earth and Space Sciences, University of...

Mary is a central figure in the Catholic Church. In fact, among Christians, who mere woman more “popular” than Jesus God and savior. This can be seen Marian devotions shrines which are far outnumber places of pilgrimage to Jesus. mother, not only for but also Church, that is, all faithful. article will specifically discuss life role Using library research, this paper scrutinizes Scriptures, doc...

Religiosity and participation in religious activities have been linked with decreased risky behavior. In the current research, we hypothesized that exposure to the concept of God can actually increase people's willingness to engage in certain types of risks. Across seven studies, reminders of God increased risk taking in nonmoral domains. This effect was mediated by the perceived danger of a ri...

Anthropomorphism is a default strategy for making the unfamiliar familiar, but is it a uniform strategy? Do all dimensions of anthropomorphism “hang together”? We explored this question by involving adults (n = 99) in a speeded property-attribution task in which they decided, as quickly as possible, whether properties of two types— psychological and physiological—could be attributed to God. Par...

Since the origins of humanity, motherhood has remained a central cog around which human societies revolve. With motherhood, it is not just ability to give birth but unbounded love, tolerance, patience and presence associated with mother that keep unique. The onset ravaging coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic its variants have, however, seen painful shift from some these widely held expectation...

In many instances, it is useful to release a part or all of the oligosaccharide chains from a glycoconjugate before analyzing their structure, and the units presented in this section describe a variety of ways in which this can be achieved. Some of the methods described here (particularly the enzymatic ones) can also be applied to the study of free oligosaccharides or to oligosaccharides that a...

Retail chains essentially practice one of two broad strategies in setting prices across their stores. The more straightforward is to set a chain-or country-wide price. Alternatively, managers of retail chains may customize prices to the store level according to local demand and competitive conditions. For example, a chain may price lower in a location with lower demand and/or more competition. ...

Dual distribution systems where firms simultaneously use vertical integration and market governance are widely used across diverse marketing contexts (e.g., restaurants, retailing, and industrial selling). A prominent example of dual distribution includes business format franchising, where firms, the franchisors, license operation of some of its units to franchisees while simultaneously owning ...

The return on investments in electronic procurement platforms has been elusive. We show that the use of an electronic platform for the procurement of pharmaceuticals and medical devices has saved the Government of Chile money. Using a unique data set that covers purchases of the same items before and after the new Chilecompra platform was introduced in 2004 and includes controls for other varia...