When preschoolers evaluate actions and agents, they typically neglect agents' intentions and focus on action outcomes instead. By contrast, intentions count much more than outcomes for older children and adults. This phenomenon has traditionally been seen as evidence of a developmental change in children's concept of what is morally good and bad. However, a growing number of studies shows that ...

this paper investigates the impacts of economic and financial developments on environmental pollution for 6 opec countries using panel cointegration and panel long-run estimator (dols) over the period 1980–2008.  the results shows that both economic and financial development have significant effect on the environmental quality in selected opec economies. the findings not support the existence o...

a recent study indicates that the incidence of smoking cessation varies with age. although nicotine dependence (nd) has been regarded as one of the most significant barriers of successful smoking cessation, few researches have focused on the relationship between nicotine dependence and age.a cross-sectional study (conducted in 2013) with 596 chinese rural male current smokers was performed to s...

This study examines dynamic interrelationships and causality relationships among CO2 emissions, economic, political and financial variables over the period of 1971-2011 for the case of Iran as one of the top CO2 emitting countries in the world. The results of ARDL and Johansen cointegration approaches confirm the existence of long run relationship among CO2 emissions, energy consumption, GDP, f...

As an important part of road transportation, bridge engineering plays a pivotal role in infrastructure construction. The wind field characteristics the site area have essential influence on both construction and operation period bridge, especially mountainous canyon terrain. In this paper, numerical simulation using computational fluid dynamics software was conducted to examine intricate region...