2014 A formula is derived for the polarization in elastic scattering, based on the semiclassical approximation. The polarization is given by the sum of two terms, one proportional to the angle and one proportional to the derivative of the cross section. The relative magnitudes of the terms depend on the relative phase of the spin orbit potential with respect to the real potential. This is compa...

Article history: Received 26 March 2010 Accepted 9 April 2010 Available online 18 April 2010 Communicated by R. Wu

This paper examines an alternative method for analyzing a collection of Likert items in the multi-criteria decision framework. Likert items are compared in pairs and organized in a set of weighted digraphs aggregated according to the Potential Method rules. In combination with Factor Analysis this approach gives respondents preferences on the scale which approximates a measurable value function...

The classification of traffic provides essential data for network management and research. Several classification approaches are developed and proposed to protect the network resources or enforce organizational policies. Whereas the port number based classification works only for some well-known applications and payload based classification is not suitable for encrypted packet payloads that mak...

THE method of Hagedorn and Jensen [1923] has become widely used for the estimation of reducing sugar in blood. The method depends upon the fact that potassium ferricyanide is reduced to ferrocyanide when heated in alkaline solution with certain reducing substances. In the Hagedorn and Jensen procedure the ferrocyanide formed in this way is precipitated as the double potassium zinc salt, and the...

A method is described for studying in detail the common perspective that members of a culture bring to a situation. The method results in models of the culture that provide a basis for outsiders to begin to frame events from the cultural-insider point of view. The cultural models can then be used to identify priority cultural aspects to emphasize in training, as an aid to anticipating how messa...

Parasitism was a universal human condition. Because of this, people developed herbal medicines to treat parasites as part of their pharmacopoeias. We propose that it is possible to recover evidence of medicinal plants from archaeological sites and link their use to specific health conditions. This is a multidisciplinary approach that must involve at least paleoethnobotanists, archaeoparasitolog...

Transcranial magnetic stimulation is a noninvasive method for stimulation of brain that is based on the ability of magnetic field to penetrate skull and brain meninges, subsequently inducing electric current in the brain tissues that produces neuronal depolarization and generation of action potentials. Moreover, transcranial magnetic stimulation has effects on neurochemical and synaptic process...

The strong logicodeductive method of science is applied in an investigation of the mortality of a large population of communications workers (338 306 white men) to explain the mortality deficits so often observed in occupational studies. A theory for the healthy worker effect is proposed, and its predictions are tested in comparisons of mortality curves fitted to Weibull functions using regress...