Black youth of the current generation are creating new definitions of engagement that vary from the nostalgic reverence to the activism of Black student leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Because today’s student leaders are engaged in navigating predominantly White institution (PWI) norms, this research sought to contextualize the racial attitudes of Black student leaders through race-consci...

30 Aortic coarctation is a frequent and serious clinical entity that decreases life expectancy; without treatment it is associated with high morbidity and mortality.1 It has an important impact on the clinical, social and working life of the treated or untreated patient, and requires ongoing follow-up, due the threat of immediate or future complications, such as: aortic rupture, acute stroke, a...

In modeling inductively coupled plasmas, the boundary condition for the electromagnetic field equations can be treated by specifying either the current in the induction coil or the total power dissipated in the plasma. This paper presents a method for using the coil current boundary condition. An advantage of using the coil current boundary condition is that coil current, unlike plasma power di...

The telecom industry over the past fifteen years offers a fascinating 'natural experiment' to discuss the much debated notion of efficient market. Market efficiency was actually the central motivation and justification of the liberalization policies devised worldwide in that sector. The current severe crisis affecting the telecom sector provides an opportunity to reconsider this line of reasoni...

In this chapter I describe the motivation behind this Thesis work. I briefly review the main theoretical aspects and the very broad observational scenario, explaining the fundamental goals of this work and summarizing its most relevant contributions to the study of galaxy evolution. The review of previous work, both observational and theoretical, is by no means to be intended as exhaustive nor ...

Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices have been used for several targets in power system, one of the main contributions of the devices is improving operation conditions. In this paper, two types of these devices have been placed to raise voltage profile, minimizing system loss and arising loadability. The suggested FACTS devices are: Unified Power Flow Controller (UP...

Faces are processed more holistically than other objects, and it has been suggested that the loss of holistic face processing causes acquired prosopagnosia. Support for this hypothesis comes from several cases who failed to show holistic face effects as well as the absence of reports of prosopagnosics with unequivocally normal holistic face perception. The current study examines the relationshi...

Materialism is a way of life characterized by the pursuit of wealth and possessions. Several studies have documented that a materialistic lifestyle is associated with diminished subjective well-being. In spite of this, many people continue to pursue materialistic goals rather than pursue goals that are more beneficial for their well-being. The current paper investigates one mechanism that may c...

The aim of the present study was to explore the holistic processing of the human body shape. Composite illusion is used as a marker to demonstrate face holistic processing. Previous studies showed that adults find it difficult to name the top half of a familiar face when it has been aligned with the bottom half of a different face compared with misaligned condition. The current study aimed to e...

The responses of neurons to time-varying injected currents are reproducible on a trial-by-trial basis in vitro, but when a constant current is injected, small variances in interspike intervals across trials add up, eventually leading to a high variance in spike timing. It is unclear whether this difference is due to the nature of the input currents or the intrinsic properties of the neurons. Ne...