Sonja Perren, Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, University of Zürich, Switzerland Lucie Corcoran, School of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Helen Cowie, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, United Kingdom Francine Dehue, Department of Psychology, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, the Netherlands D’Jamila Garcia, Instituto Universitári...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS To investigate the prevalence and pattern of PC and BCP mutations and their clinical significance in patients with genotype D chronic hepatitis B infection in the Fars province of southern Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 2007 to March 2008, we evaluated 44 patients with chronic hepatitis B infection who were referred to our hepatology clinics affiliated with the S...

The dog had a history of abdominal pain and vomiting of five days duration. An umbilical hernia had been surgically repaired years earlier. The dog was depressed, lethargic, and had painful palpations of the cranial abdomen. Body temperature (39"C), heart rate (1 10 bpm) and respiratory rate (44 breathdmin.) were normal. Heart sounds were clearly audible on the right side and muffled on the lef...

Practical decision situations are becoming increasingly complicated. It is common for a person to select or rank alternatives with respect to multiple attributes, and the TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese of interactive and multiple attribute decision making) method, which is one of the first multiple attribute decision making (MADM) methods based on prospect theory, has received more attention d...

A logical foundation for the intersection and union types assignment system (IUT) is proposed. We present Intersection-Union Logic (IUL) as an extension of Intersection Logic (IL) by adding rules for union and we examine some properties of this system and its relation with intuitionistic minimal logic.

To solve saddle point systems efficiently, several preconditioners have been published. There are many methods for constructing preconditioners for linear systems from saddle point problems, for instance, the relaxed dimensional factorization (RDF) preconditioner and the augmented Lagrangian (AL) preconditioner are used for both steady and unsteady Navier-Stokes equations. In this paper we comp...

The present manuscript constitutes the lecture notes for the “Probability, Statistics and Stochastic Processes” module of the PhD program on Complexity Science, held at ISCTE-IUL during April and May 2012. The aim of the notes is to provide some auxiliary material for the students to follow this 10 hour length module, devoted to the study of the Probability theory and Stochastic Processes, as w...

The effects of emotions on football spectators' satisfaction and behavioural intentions Rui Biscaia a , Abel Correia a , António Rosado a , João Maroco b & Stephen Ross c a Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Human Performance (CIPER), Faculty of Human Movement, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal b Higher Institute of Applied Psychology (ISPA-IUL), Lisbon, Portugal c School of Kines...

In the rat, some phthalates alter sexual differentiation at relatively low dosage levels by altering fetal Leydig cell development and hormone synthesis, thereby inducing abnormalities of the testis, gubernacular ligaments, epididymis, and other androgen-dependent tissues. In order to define the dose-response relationship between di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) and the Phthalate Syndrome of r...

in this paper‎, ‎an efficient dropping criterion has been used to compute the iul factorization obtained from backward factored approximate inverse (bfapinv) and ilu factorization obtained from forward factored approximate inverse (ffapinv) algorithms‎. ‎we use different drop tolerance parameters to compute the preconditioners‎. ‎to study the effect of such a dropping on the quality of the ilu ...