The authors used an event-contingent daily recording strategy, the Rochester Interaction Record (RIR), to examine the motivational dynamics of interpersonal relations. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the authors demonstrated that social interactions were more pleasant when participants felt autonomous, competent, and related. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness consistently predicted inte...

Recent rhetoric surrounding the contemporary aid relationship between donors and African states is couched in terms of a high level consensus between western and African political leaderships, a central pillar of which is adherence to liberal principles of governance and economic management. The paper argues that an analysis of the nature of this consensus and its prospects requires that we nee...

The Green function for Klein-Gordon-Dirac equation is obtained. The case with the dominating Klein-Gordon term is considered. There seems to be a formal analogy between our problem and a certain problem for a 4-dimensional particle moving in the external field. The explicit relations between the wave function, Green function and initial conditions are established with the help of the T -exponen...

A general approach for derivation of the spectral relations for the multitime correlation functions is presented. A special attention is paid to the consideration of the non-ergodic (conserving) contributions and it is shown that such contributions can be treated in a rigorous way using multitime temperature Green functions. Representation of the multitime Green functions in terms of the spectr...

Multi-resolution approach is used to derive homogenized (large scale) formulation for propagation of waves in complex laminates. Basic entities such as boundary conditions, spatial and temporal spectrum (eigenvalues and resonances), Wronskian, modal expansions, and Green function representations associated with the homogenized formulation are discussed. The relations between them and their gene...

Multi-resolution approach is used to derive homogenized (large-scale) formulation for propagation of waves in complex laminates. Basic entities such as boundary conditions, spatial and temporal spectrum (eigenvalues and resonances), Wronskian, modal expansions, and Green function representations associated with the homogenized formulation are discussed. The relations between them and their gene...

Green performance measure is vital for enterprises in making continuous improvements to maintain sustainable competitive advantages. Evaluation of green performance, however, is a challenging task due to the dependence complexity of the aspects, criteria, and the linguistic vagueness of some qualitative information and quantitative data together. To deal with this issue, this study proposes a n...