Seymour has shown recently that people take less time to judge that the word above correctly describes the spatial position of a small circle drawn ABOVE a large reference square than they do for the word below and the circle BELOW the square. Seymour has attributed this asymmetry to the tendency for people to invariably scan a picture from top to bottom. In the present study, the first experim...

For an ideal amplifier where Acm1 = 0;CMRR2 is infinite and the second stage is tweaked for maximum CMR. Since there is always a small but finite imbalance in the common-mode gains of the first stage, however, the conclusion from the analysis is that the second stage should be adjusted not in isolation but coupled to the first stage with a common-mode voltage applied to the input of the first s...

Despite being of vital importance to the immune system, the mechanism by which cells engulf relatively large solid particles during phagocytosis is still poorly understood. From movies of neutrophil phagocytosis of polystyrene beads, we measure the fractional engulfment as a function of time and demonstrate that phagocytosis occurs in two distinct stages. During the first stage, engulfment is r...

Research work varies between researchers as they have different beliefs and ways of viewing and interacting within their environment. However, there are certain standards and rules that guide a researcher's beliefs and actions. Such standards or principles can be referred to as a paradigm. The paradigm guides researchers to understand and choose a particular methodology with an understanding of...

The purpose of this article is to investigate both cooperative and competitive strategies of firms that may cause accidents. In order to reduce accident probabilities and the amount of damage, each firm tries to improve the safety level of its products and these firms may exchange information about the previous accidents associated with their products. Thus, these firms may cooperate on this po...

We present a mechanism in which models with two Higgs fields can undergo a two stage phase transition as the temperature falls. The first stage is a conventional second order (or weakly first order) transition in which the symmetry is broken. Shortly thereafter follows a first order transition with barrier penetration, bubble production and loss of thermal equilibrium. For Higgs potentials with...

This article reports the findings of the multistage agenda-setting process of four Israeli elections. In the first stage, agenda building, it is demonstrated that there is a close association between real-world indicators and media agenda. In the second stage, agenda setting, it was found that the level of television coverage of issues influences the proportion of surveys’ respondents naming th...

The aim of the paper is to present alternative to conventional (i.e., the commonly used biological treatment plants) wastewater treatment systems, appropriate for small communities and settlements. These systems are the natural treatment systems. The emphasis here is given on constructed wetlands (CWs). First, advantages and disadvantages of these systems are presented compared to conventional ...

Highly viscous silicone oils within a wide range of volumes were left to spread on smooth horizontal substrates to investigate the effects of capillarity on viscous gravity spreadings under the condition of complete wetting. The study was centered on the intermediate asymptotic behavior, where the details of the initial liquid distribution are irrelevant. We detected small but appreciable depar...

Genomewide scans for mapping loci have proved to be extremely powerful and popular. We present a semiparametric method of mapping a quantitative-trait locus (QTL) or QTLs with the use of sib-pair data generated from a two-stage genomic scan. In a two-stage genomic scan, either the entire genome or a large portion of the genome is saturated with low-density markers at the first stage. At the sec...