Wind-generated surface waves breaking in the nearshore cause an increase mean water levels, wave setup, which can represent a significant fraction of storm surges developing both along open coasts and over sheltered areas such as coastal lagoons estuaries. A common way to simulate setup is assume balance between barotropic gradient divergence depth-integrated wave-averaged momentum flux (radiat...

ion.” (Hjorland, 2000a, p.506) “The goal for Library and Information Science is to write a history of its theoretical development abstracted from the concrete technologies in which its principles have been studied.” (ibid., p.512) This disjunction is also noted by Bonnevie (2001) who observes that theory in IS tends to remain at the meta level and is not actually implemented at a practical leve...

This study explored sources of tension in the aging mother-adult daughter relationship. Forty-eight dyads of healthy mothers over the age of 70 years (mean age = 76 years) and their adult daughters (mean age = 44 years) were interviewed individually and then together about their relationship. Responses to questions about tension were coded as referring to intrusiveness, exclusion, inappropriate...

In contrast to the claim that the most significant fault line in contemporary global affairs is between the civilisation of the West and all others, this essay argues that the schism between those who advance their values through violence and those who rely on persuasion, both of which are present in all civilisations, is the greatest source of conflict in the post-Cold-War era. Moderates come ...

Computational grids involve the intersection of different geographically distributed communities: the resourceusers and the resource-providers. Grid monitoring is required by various super-sets of these communities as everyone wants to know something about how the Grid is performing. Many grid monitoring systems have a top-down prescriptive approach. Grid monitoring is often considered separabl...

GSK3beta and Cdk5 are the two kinases in the center of research on Alzheimer's disease (AD), involved in the pathological symptoms of AD, Abeta plaque formation, tau hyperphosphorylation and neurodegeneration. So far, both kinases have mostly been examined in isolation, leading to a schism of the research field into defenders of the GSK3beta-versus the Cdk5 hypotheses of AD. However, in this de...

The major objectives of this paper are to explore, from the perspective of 18 senior procurement professionals interviewed, the current status of their role and identify the skills they need to develop, in order to effectively manage the changes they are experiencing. The interviews revealed a schism in perception of the procurement role between professionals (strategic) and their organisations...