BACKGROUND In-depth understanding of cultural and religious factors limiting organ donation of three ethnic populations (Malay, Chinese, and Indian) in Southeast Asia is lacking. Identification of factors limiting organ donation among these three ethnic groups will provide insights into culturally appropriate strategies to promote acceptance of organ donation in a multiethnic Asian community. ...

Because many students experience frustration during learning, it is important to develop affective strategies to support students’ coping with frustration in interactive learning environments. First, we must devise affect recognition models to detect student affect. Second, we need to determine when to intervene; these conditions are likely to be different for each student. To determine how muc...

David Chidester’s Wild Religion focuses on religious diversity and South Africa ‘‘from the advent of democracy in 1994 to the euphoria of the Football World Cup in 2010’’ (viii). It is not a conventionally defined description of particular faith communities or sacred rituals but rather an attempt to describe in a well-informed story-telling anecdotal way how ritual and the sacred are used (and ...

when the parties enter into a contract, they are obliged to implement its obligations, but sometimes events occur that make it impossible to execute the contract or runtime status than the time of conclusion of the contract is fundamentally different. these events are referred to as legal excuses if eligible, the parties are exempt from the obligations and responsibilities. the most important l...

Presents results of free-recall experiments conducted in France, Gabon and Nepal, to test predictions of a cognitive model of religious concepts. The world over, these concepts include violations of conceptual expectations at the level of domain knowledge (e.g., about ‘animal’ or ‘artifact’ or ‘person’) rather than at the basic level. In five studies we used narratives to test the hypothesis th...

We have performed density-matrix renormalization group studies of a square lattice $t$-$J$ model with small hole doping, $\delta\ll 1$, on long 4 and 6 leg cylinders. include frustration in the form second-neighbor exchange coupling, $J_2 = J_1/2$, such that undoped ($\delta=0$) "parent" state is quantum spin liquid. In contrast to relatively short range superconducting (SC) correlations been o...

the main purpose of this research is to explain the elements and characteristics of religious education curriculum based on the task-oriented approach. to achieve this purpose, frankena`s model for analyzing a normative philosophy; deductive method was used. based on the results, the task-oriented the ultimate goal of religious education and then ten target interface for religious education wer...

Large C and C++ softwa¡e projects typically share common types, macros, and variables among modules via include files organized into hierarchies. Many of these hierarchies grow so complex that it is haed for programmers to figure out when a file must be included. Since including unused symbols is usually harmless, application code tends to include more files than required. Knowing when ñles are...

We present a stochastic Petri net model of a replicated file system in a distributed environment where replicated files reside on different hosts and a voting algorithm is used to maintain consistency. Witnesses, which simply record the status of the file but contain no data, may be used in addition to or in place of files to reduce overhead. We present a model sufficiently detailed to include ...