Engineering low-frequency phonon transport in nanostructures with the resonant mechanism has become an important research direction. On basis of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, thermal pristine and Si-membranes bounded {100}, {110} {111} facets is investigated. It found that creation surfaces can introduce anisotropic due to lattice symmetry breaking. Besides, ballistic membrane...

A new scheme for detecting edges in multi-channel SAR images is proposed. The method is applied to a set of two full-polarimetric SAR images, i.e. a P-band and an L-band image. The first step is a lowlevel edge detector based on multi-variate statistical hypothesis tests. As the spatial resolution of the two SAR bands is not the same, the test is applied to the polarimetric information for each...

Previous studies demonstrated that different academic contexts could have different effects on moral development, i.e. in most cases formal education enhances moral reasoning, but sometime erodes it (for example for medical students). The aim of this study was to examine differences in moral reasoning among students of different academic disciplines (health care, law, social sciences and humani...

Using a contrast matching procedure, we measured the perceived contrast of vertical test gratings after adapting to other gratings of either vertical or horizontal orientation. The results show that both parallel and orthogonal adapting gratings reduce perceived contrast and do so proportionally more at low test contrasts than at high. The results are consistent with a single mechanism model pr...

This paper examines the existence of gender differences in computer mediated (CM) negotiations where ‘‘gender differences’’ refers to the differential patterns of behavior of males and females proposed by Rubin and Brown (Rubin, J. Z., & Brown, B. R. (1975). Bargainers as individuals. In The social psychology of bargaining and negotiation (pp. 157–196). New York: Academic Press). Namely, males ...

Acetylcholine-binding protein (AChBP) recently emerged as a prototype for relating structure to function of the ligand binding domain of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs). To understand interactions of competitive antagonists at the atomic structural level, we studied binding of the curare derivatives d-tubocurarine (d-TC) and metocurine to AChBP using computational methods, mutagenesis...

The decline in religious identification and corresponding increase in the unaffiliated has been one of the most important religious changes in the United Kingdom (UK). The emergence of the “religious nones” is the most obvious sign of continuing secularization and the declining social and cultural relevance of religion. Yet while the religiously-unaffiliated often form the plurality — if not so...