Fate of light hadronic excitations above the critical temperature Tc of the QCD phase transition was first investigated 20 years ago.1,2 In Ref. 1 whose title is “Fluctuation effects in hot quark matter: precursors of chiral transition at finite temperature”, the hadrinic modes above Tc were discussed in connection with the critical fluctuation associated with chiral symmetry restoration: The a...

Tipping is a widespread custom in which service patrons voluntarily give money, above and beyond the price of the service, to the workers who have served them. This study found that the greater a nation’s level of neuroticism the larger the number of service professions that it is customary to tip in that country. This finding provides some support for an anthropological theory that tipping evo...

This article advances a communicative approach to social capital that views communication as the fundamental source of societal integration. We contend that integration occurring at the system level via news consumption and at the individual level via interpersonal discussion is amplified through ties at the community level. This cross-level interaction is theorized to encourage civic engagemen...

Article history: Received 22 August 2012 Available online 17 November 2012 Unemployment bearsmanynegative consequences for both individuals and societies. Particularly the long-term unemployed face poor chances of finding reemployment, and many recommendations issued in the regular unemployment literature may not apply to them. Therefore, the current study investigates whether employability (Fu...

Multiphoton resonances with ponderomotively upshifted Rydberg states are believed to have dramatic effects on the plateau of high-order above-threshold ionization. For short pulses and intense laser fields, individual Rydberg states lose their physical significance. Under these conditions, on the basis of experimental and theoretical investigation of the dependence of the photoelectron spectra ...

Hemalata C. Dandekar, a licensed architect with a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA, is Prof essor, College ofArchitecture and Urban Planning, University ofMichigan. She was Director of Michigan's Center for South and Southeas t Asia. Her publications o n international development include two books, Shelter, Women and Development: First and Third World Perspectives, and Men to Bombay, Women at ...

The present study examine s the relation ship betwe en technology self-efficacy among university students and gender roles. Previous research has based differences in technology self-efficacy on biological sex and found significant differences. University students were asked to complete a survey dealing with gender roles and technology self-efficacy. The current study shows that gender roles, s...