This study provided a detailed description of the experiences 60 treatment-seeking children and young people following parental intimate partner homicide (PIPH) in United Kingdom, evaluated potential effectiveness traumatic grief focused cognitive behavioral therapy they received. A paired samples t-test showed that mean pre-and post-treatment posttraumatic stress scores decreased significantly...

Cancer is one of the deadliest diseases worldwide. Chemotherapy remains frequently applied treatment modalities in clinics. However, as currently agents are associated with severe side effects, scientists searching for novel chemotherapeutic drugs. Within last decades, Cu(II) polypyridine complexes have received increasing attention potential anticancer drug candidates. Herein, biological activ...

Scoring short-answer questions has disadvantages that may take long time to grade and may be an issue on consistency in scoring. To alleviate the disadvantages, automated scoring systems are widely used in America or Europe, but, in Korea, there has been researches regarding the automated scoring. In this paper, we propose an automated scoring tool for Korean short-answer questions using a semi...

To increase the monodispersity of magnetic hybrid nanocomposites, a novel ultrasonic method was introduced to synthesize uniform Fe3O4@SiO2-Ag nanospheres. The immobilized Ag nanocrystals were tunable by varying the experimental conditions. An antibacterial assay indicated that the Fe3O4@SiO2-Ag nanospheres exhibited excellent antibacterial activities against Staphylococcus aureus and Escherich...

Adaptive estimation of the state-of-charge (SoC) for batteries is increasingly appealing, thanks to its ability to accommodate uncertain or time-varying model parameters. We propose to improve the adaptive SoC estimation using multiple models in this study, developing a unique algorithm called MMAdaSoC. Specifically, two submodels in state-space form are generated from a modified Nernst battery...

In order to properly operate an autonomous vehicle navigation system, it is important that the vehicle and sensor models of an autonomous vehicle are defined by an accurate parameter set. This paper presents a technique for identifying parameters of an autonomous vehicle using multi-objective optimisation, which enables the identification process without introducing additional parameters. A mul...

In molecular dynamics applications there is a growing interest in including quantum eeects for simulations of larger molecules. This paper is concerned with mixed quantum-classical models which are currently discussed: the so-called QCMD model with variants and the time-dependent Born-Oppenheimer approximation. All these models are known to approximate the full quantum dynamical evolution|under...

A new link-based document ranking framework is devised with at its heart, a contents and time sensitive random literature explorer designed to more accurately model the behaviour of readers of scientific documents. In particular, our ranking framework dynamically adjusts its random walk parameters according to both contents and age of encountered documents, thus incorporating the diversity of t...

We report the crystal structure and hole-transport mechanism in spiro-OMeTAD [2,2',7,7'-tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenyl-amine)9,9'-spirobifluorene], the dominant hole-transporting material in perovskite and solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Despite spiro-OMeTAD's paramount role in such devices, its crystal structure was unknown because of highly disordered solution-processed films; the ho...

The demand of integration of many heterogeneous semiconductor intellectual property (IP) blocks has been introducing a new chip design paradigm so called on chip network. This paradigm promisingly offers a packet switched network among IPs to reduce the main problems in the very deep sub micron technologies that arise from non-scalable global wire delay, failure to achieve global synchronizatio...