discourse analysis attempts as methodology to discover the interactions of language with intellectual-social structures within written and oral texts, as well as to study the meaning formation in relation to intralingistic and cross-linguistic factors. in other words, the conditions of meaningfulness are called discourse. this method has been achieved as the outcome of studies conducted by scho...

OBJECTIVES To examine posttraumatic growth (PTG) and its predictors social acknowledgment as survivors, sense of coherence (SOC), trauma severity, and further factors in former child soldiers more than 60 years after deployment. DESIGN Cross-sectional. SETTING University-based geropsychiatric center in Germany. PARTICIPANTS One hundred three former German child soldiers of World War II, m...

Researchers are of the belief that employee voice has favorable effects for both the employee and the organization. However, the effect of employee voice on creativity, and the process through which it influences creativity, has hitherto received little attention. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between perceived employee voice and creativity. Employees of three premier dairy...

Collaborative planning in natural resource management involves a number of non-state actors and different institutions to make decisions that fall under the realm governance. However, legitimacy, quality considered necessary successful governance, has not been thoroughly investigated empirically. This research examines perceived importance three dimensions legitimacy — representativeness, meani...

A knot is a circle smoothly embedded in 3-dimensional Euclidean space or its compactification, the 3-sphere. Two knots are regarded as the same if one can be smoothly deformed into the other.1 The mathematical theory of knots emerged from the smoky ruins of Lord Kelvin’s “vortex atom theory,” a hopelessly optimistic theory of matter of the nineteenth century in which atoms appeared as microscop...

We analyze the freezing transition in a system of hard particles with a very long-ranged repulsion. The long-range repulsion makes first-order freezing transitions continuous, but leaves the initial stages of the crystallization unchanged: the crystal phase must still nucleate. The coexistence between bulk phases is replaced by microphase separation.

Skeletonization will probably become as valuable a tool for shape analysis in 3D, as it is in 2D. We present a topology preserving 3D skeletonization method which computes both surface and curve skeletons whose voxels are labelled with the D6 distance to the original background. The surface skeleton preserves all shape information, so (close to) complete recovery of the object is possible. The ...

The Angel-Devil game is an infinite game played on an infinite chess board: In each move the Angel, a generalized chess king, jumps from his current square to some location at distance at most k, while his opponent, the Devil, blocks squares trying to strand the Angel. The Angel wins if he manages to fly on forever. It is a long-standing open question whether some Angel of sufficiently large po...

A particular higher-derivative extension of the Einstein-Hilbert action in three spacetime dimensions is shown to be equivalent at the linearized level to the (unitary) Pauli-Fierz action for a massive spin-2 field. A more general model, which also includes "topologically-massive" gravity as a special case, propagates the two spin-2 helicity states with different masses. We discuss the extensio...