Our objectives are a) To describe the detailed structure of the air flow in a mature hurricane, b) To understand the vertical force balance in the eye and the eyewall, c) To investigate the presence of supergradient flow in hurricanes and the underlying processes, d) To study the surface wind structures during landfall, e) To investigate the transformation of a cold-core continental mesovortex ...

The problem of corruption has been universally acknowledged as a drain on a country's developmental efforts. Anticorruption reform hitherto has focused on political corruption. Administrative corruption which citizens have to contend with on a daily basis is only just beginning to attract attention. There have been various strategies, intensifying

Inspired by Pen&Paper Role Playing principles, I intend to design and formalize a Conflict Manager for generating moral dilemmas in digital games, with the aim of intensifying the emotional-involvement of players. Based on previous work, where I formalized a character model endowed with moral values and driven by moral emotions, in this paper I sketch my proposal for a Conflict Manager.

BACKGROUND Clinical inertia, the failure of physicians to initiate or intensify therapy when indicated, is a major problem in the management of hypertension and may be more prevalent in elderly patients. Overcoming clinical inertia requires understanding its causes and evaluating certain factors, particularly those related to physicians. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to determine t...

In this paper we show that speakers of both tonal and non-tonal dialects of Kammu use a fixed tone pattern high–low for intensifying reduplication of adjectives, and also that speakers of the tonal dialect retain the lexical tones (high or low) while applying this fixed tone pattern.