A study is made of the propagation of time-harmonic magneto-thermoviscoelastic plane waves in a homogeneous electrically conducting viscoelastic medium of Kelvin-Voigt type permeated by a primary uniform external magnetic field when the entire medium rotates with a uniform angular velocity. The generalized thermoelasticity theory of type II (Green and Naghdi model) is used to study the propagat...

The creation of identity, in terms of both consumer identity and brand identity, is a core topic in marketing theory. Based on participant ethnography of Yes Edinburgh North & Leith, part of Yes Scotland, the national referendum campaign supporting Scottish independence, this paper explores identity co-creation among three entities: The brand, the individual consumer, and the brand community. T...

Measuring internet traffic related to NNTP protocol (Usenet News) provides vital information needed for optimum news server configuration. However, gathering data is usually restricted to the “local view”, even though in networked environment an overview of the neighbourhood traffic would be more appropriate. This article describes method of gathering such data from remote points and analysing ...

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sándor Juhász-Nagy, Professor of Physiology and Pathophysiology Critical Examiners: Dr. András Vereckei, Assistent Professor of Cardiology, Ph.D. Dr. József Kaszaki, Assistent Professor of Surgery, Ph.D. President of the Defence Board: Prof. Dr. Ferenc Perner, Professor of Transplantation Surgery Members of the Defence Board: Dr. Mária Szekeres, University Assistent of Phy...

In August 2010 Facebook launched Places, a locationbased service that allows users to check into points of interest and share their physical whereabouts with friends. The friends who see these events in their News Feed can then respond to these check-ins by liking or commenting on them. These data consisting of the places people go and how their friends react to them are a rich, novel dataset. ...

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We investigate trace functions of modules for vertex operator algebras satisfying C2-cofiniteness. For the modular invariance property, Zhu assumed two conditions in [Zh]: A(V ) is semisimple and C2-cofiniteness. We show that C2cofiniteness is enough to prove a modular invariance property. For example, if a VOA V = ⊕m=0Vm is C2-cofinite, then the space spanned by generalized characters (pseudo-...

BACKGROUND Despite long-standing guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that call for avoiding elective births prior to 39 weeks of gestation, elective deliveries make up almost one-third of US births occurring in weeks 36-38. Poor outcomes are more likely for infants born electively before 39 weeks than for those born at 39 weeks. The Perinatal Quality Collabor...

is biholomorphic equivalent to the Satake compactification of H2/Γ′ for a certain subgroup Γ′ ⊂ Sp(2, Z). This variety has 96 singularities which correspond to certain zero-dimensional cusps and these singularities are ordinary double points (nodes). In the paper [CM] it has been pointed out that the results of [GN] imply that a (projective) small resolution of this variety is a rigid Calabi-Ya...

Recreational diving on coral reefs is an activity that has experienced rapidly growing levels of popularity and participation. Despite providing economic activity for many developing coastal communities, the potential role of dive impacts in contributing to coral reef damage is a concern at heavily dived locations. Management measures to address this issue increasingly include the introduction ...