OF THESIS VALIDATION OF THE MILLER FORENSIC ASSESSMENT OF SYMPTOMS TEST (M-FAST) IN A CIVIL FORENSIC POPULATION The Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test (M-FAST) is a relatively new measure shown to be a valid and effective tool for screening psychiatric malingering in criminal forensic and psychiatric inpatient settings. The present study attempts to crossvalidate the M-FAST in civil fo...

A dialectical constructivist approach, based on a theory of constructive operators (TCO), is presented. This theory explains human psychological functioning as produced by dynamic syntheses of a variety of schemes, the “software,” and mental “hardware” operators. In this model the activity of the subject is captured by means of such mental operations as allocation of attention to, or interrupti...

The title compounds have been synthesized starting from l-menthone by application of a ring-closing metathesis reaction to confirm their reported absolute and relative stereochemistry. Comparisons of the NMR spectra and specific rotations are also discussed.

RO-15 This paper focuses on medium voltage switchgear in withdrawable execution, compared to medium voltage switchgear in fixed execution. Looking at the benefits and disadvantages of both executions, and the function the switchgear has to fulfill. Elaborating both executions, investigating accidents and near accidents; analyzing the causes, and studying the possibility of unsafe operation. Giv...

Successful adoption of new teaching and learning technologies in higher education requires the consensus of two sub-cultures, namely the technologist sub-culture and the academic sub-culture. This paper examines trends in adoption of open source software (OSS) for teaching and learning by comparing the results of a 2009 survey of 285 Chief Academic Officers and Chief Information Officers with t...

Most of the IO literature takes innovation to be either a patentable breakthrough product or some form of cost reduction. In either case, an increase in the number of players (more competition) stifles their incentives to undertake costly innovations because rents decrease. This runs contrary to the common wisdom and seems to defy the most casual observation of the real world. In this paper we ...

While the critical dimension in the microelectronics industry is continually going down due to developments in photolithography, it is coming at the expense of exponential increase in lithography tool costs and rising photomask costs. Step and Flash Imprint Lithography (S-FIL) is a nano-patterning technique that results in significantly lower cost of the lithography tool and process consumables...

The rapid growth of elastic computing services, together with a raising need to target savings, enable new IT scenarios. In particular, Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) can benefit of digital forensic services sharing, lowering CAPEX and OPEX especially in case of spiky utilization of forensic hardware and software resources. In fact, considering the workloads related to the size of a forensic o...

I. Research Problem The total cost of ownership to implement a software package typically is much higher than the purchase price of software, sometimes as high as twelve times the price. Integrating software with the pre-existing technical architecture, changing business processes, training new users on the system, and maintenance costs for the software make it difficult for customers to replac...

We study the full Maxwell-Dirac equations: Dirac field with minimally coupled electromagnetic field and Maxwell field with Dirac current as source. Our particular interest is the static case in which the Dirac current is purely time-like – the “electron” is at rest in some Lorentz frame. In this case we prove two theorems under rather general assumptions. Firstly, that if the system is also sta...