Submitted for the DPP09 Meeting of The American Physical Society Self-Similar Decay of Enstrophy in an Electron Plasma DOUGLAS RODGERS, SERGIO SERVIDIO, WILLIAM MATTHAEUS, TRAVIS MITCHELL, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 — The similarity solution for energy decay in 3D hydrodynamic turbulence, due to Taylor and von Karman [1], based on the self pres...

Through the last three decades different seismological and engineering approaches for the generation of artificial earthquakes have been proposed. Selection of an appropriate method for the generation of applicable artificial earthquake accelerograms (AEAs) has been a challenging subject in the time history analysis of the structures in the case of the absence of sufficient recorded accelerogra...

Human language, over its evolutionary history, has emerged as one of the fundamental defining characteristic of the modern man. However, this milestone evolutionary process through natural selection has not left any ’linguistic fossils’ that may enable us to trace back the actual course of development of language and its establishment in human societies. Lacking analytical tools to fathom the cr...

The emerging concept of ‘critical HRD’ is complex, ambiguous and lacks clarity. To address this problem, the technique of concept analysis (Walker & Avant 1988, Rodgers 1989) is employed to help clarify our understanding of CHRD. Concept analysis presents theoretical definitions and defining characteristics of CHRD, which can help provide clearer operational definitions, to assist practitioners...

Mark W. Shephard, Robert L. Herman, Brendan M. Fisher, Karen E. Cady-Pereira, Shepard A. Clough, Vivienne H. Payne, David N. Whiteman, Joseph P. Comer, Holger Vömel, Larry M. Miloshevich, Ricardo Forno, Mariana Adam, Gregory B. Osterman, Annmarie Eldering, John R. Worden, Linda R. Brown, Helen M. Worden, Susan S. Kulawik, David M. Rider, Aaron Goldman, Reinhard Beer, Kevin W. Bowman, Clive D. R...

Aim To analyse the concept of maternal distress. Background Although, not well developed, the concept of maternal distress has provided an important viewpoint in nursing and midwifery practice since the mid 1990s. Traditionally, understanding of maternal distress has been based on the medical model and dysfunction. The concept of maternal distress needs development so that it describes response...