The Low Energy Neutron Source (LENS) is based on Be(p,xn) reactions at proton energy up to 13 MeV. Its novel design employs a cylindrical light water reflector/moderator surrounding the Be target primary neutron source and a solid CH4 cold neutron moderator downstream from the Be target that is coupled to the reflector. The design of the Target/Moderator/Reflector (TMR) assembly was optimized w...

Liquid para-hydrogen has smaller scattering cross section than those of normal hydrogen at an energy region below about 15 meV, and the para-rich-hydrogen moderators might decrease the width of the cold neutron pulses emitted from the moderators due to low up-scattering cross-section in para-hydrogen. We developed a hydrogen gas supply system to convert ortho-hydrogen to para-hydrogen using an ...

Traditional research on moderator variables in personality has focused on measures of relative consistency. In contrast, using Goldberg's (1992) adjectives representing the Big Five personality traits, the authors examined the applicability of moderator variables to measures of personality coherence. The authors considered 3 traditional moderator variables (interitem variability, construct simi...

Comment: There was angiocentric involvement, with atypical cells that were positive for the B cell marker CD20, with more benign appearing CD3 positive T cells also present. Reticulin stain showed reticulin proliferation about involved vessels. In situ hybridization of lesions showed strong positivity for EBV. Some members of the audience noted the presence of intranuclear inclusions in the les...

BACKGROUND There are both theoretical and empirical reasons to believe that design and execution factors are associated with bias in controlled trials. Statistically significant moderator effects, such as the effect of trial quality on treatment effect sizes, are rarely detected in individual meta-analyses, and evidence from meta-epidemiological datasets is inconsistent. The reasons for the dis...

Although, the resource based theory mentions both resources and capabilities to be sources of competitive advantage, not much distinction between the two has been made in research on competitive advantage. Therefore, this proposal presents a literature review of the research on information technology (IT) and organizational capability, and then puts forth a model of IT capability as a moderator...

The cultural normativeness perspective argues that parenting practices such as spanking are more beneficial for children when they occur in cultural groups within which they are normative. Research on this issue in the United States has focused on race as a marker of culture, and findings have been mixed. The present study presents meta-analyses of five studies that reported effect sizes separa...

The relationship between initiating export stimuli and export performance is examined within the context of four specific types of export marketing strategies. The nature of the export stimulus is seen to be associated with performance for some types of strategy but not for all. Consequently, export marketing strategy acts as a moderator of the relationship between export stimuli and the perfor...