Annually million tons of freight and mail are being transported through US airports. The air freight transportation services reportedly result in millions of jobs, activities and dollars which in effect stimulate economic development of regions and the nation as a whole. Beyond passengers and aircraft movements, freight volume nowadays is another major target of opportunity for an airport manag...

60 patients suffering from "Depression" attending the Psychiatry outpatient clinic in a general hospital were studied.The intensity of symptoms, and life stress events for 12 months prior to episode were obtained and compared on the basis of sex of patient.The findings of the study indicate that, the depressed patients had the severity of symptomatology positively correlated with the severity o...

It is often assumed, by laypeople and researchers alike, that people shift visual perspective in mental images of life events to maintain a positive self-concept by claiming ownership of desirable events (first-person) and disowning undesirable events (third-person). The present research suggests that people shift perspective not according to the pictured event's desirability but according to w...

Locating a facility is often modeled as either the maxisum or the minisum problem, re ecting whether the facility is undesirable (obnoxious) or desirable. But many facilities are both desirable and undesirable at the same time, e.g. an airport. This can be modeled as a multicriteria network location problem, where some of the sumobjectives are maximized (push e ect) and some of the sum-objectiv...

By analyzing corpus data, we have shown that the tendencies of restricting perfective past marking to Accomplishments and Achievements and imperfective marking to Statives and Activities as described by the Aspect Hypothesis (Shirai, 1991; Andersen & Shirai, 1996), undesirable in the acquisition of various languages, are desirable in the acquisition of a language like Chinese, because these ten...

In recent years, the deteriorations of living habits like immobilization or unhealthy diet are becoming serious social problems in many developed countries. Even if we know the importance, it is difficult to change our undesirable habits and to maintain a desirable lifestyle. This study demonstrates a concept called ambient lifestyle feedback systems to be used to motivate people to change thei...