This paper examines the European Union’s interaction with civil society organizations in Armenia through the European Neighbourhood Policy as a potential example of normative socialization. Through examining the EU’s interaction with domestic NGOs in Armenia, this paper offers an evaluation of the socialization mechanism coupled with a general critique of the EU’s democratization policy in rela...

We investigated associations between familism, parent-adolescent relationships, and developmental outcomes for a sample of 97 Armenian adolescents in immigrant families. Our results suggested that adolescents emphasizing family needs over their own were more likely to report conformity to parents’ wishes, respect for parental authority, and disclosure to parents about activities. Familism was a...

In master slave teleoperation schemes operated by humans, the interface with which the user interacts plays a key role. In this work an interface based on inertial sensors with applications for unilateral master slave robotic teleoperation is developed. The interface is composed of two portable inertial sensor units which are placed on the upper and lower arm to obtain acceleration and turning ...

We analyze theoretically the polarization dynamics in unidirectionally coupled vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). The master VCSEL is subject to an isotropic optical feedback. The slave VCSEL is subject to an orthogonal optical injection from the master VCSEL, i.e., only the linearly polarized mode orthogonal to the dominant linearly polarized mode of the free-running slave VCSEL...

A population of Crepis pannonica, growing in the Hosrov reserve in Armenia, at the southem limit ofthe species ' area, has been investigated over a period ofmore than 20 years. An extraordinary chromosomal polymorphism has been detected by the study of root tip mitoses ofseedlings. 40 different chromosome complement variants were found, including a full range of aneuploids, B-chromosomes, struc...

Methods We observed 2300 patients with FMF (1408 boys and 892 girls; mean age: 8.86±0.29) in the National Pediatric Centre for FMF. Diagnosis of FMF was based on Tel-Hashomer criteria and MEFV genetic analysis. The epilepsy was diagnosed based on clinical manifestations (>2 unprovoked epileptic seizures),neurological history, exam, EEG and MRI. The statistical analysis was performed using Epi-I...

N D E X O F U N D E R G R A D U A T E P R O G R A M S A Aboriginal Communities, Middle School Education in (Certificate) [Education] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Aboriginal Education for Certified Teachers (Certificate) [Education] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Aboriginal Literacy Education (Certificate) . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Accoun...

This paper discusses the minimization of end-to-end delays in a small Bluetooth scatternet with a Slave/Slave bridge. We assume that both piconets operate under exhaustive scheduling policy, that slaves generate packet bursts, that burst arrivals follow Poisson distribution, and that the size of packet bursts follows geometric distribution. Using the theory of queues with vacations, we investig...

Endoscopes for industrial and medical fields are expected to have multi degree-of-freedom (DOF) motions. A multi-DOF ultrasonic motor we developed consists of a spherical rotor and a bar-shaped stator, and the rotor rotates around three perpendicular axes using three natural vibration modes of the stator. In this study, a multi-DOF unilateral master-slave system for active endoscope using the m...