This research documents “the friendly taking effect” in choosing consumption packages for the self and others, interpersonal closeness leads to a preference for a self-benefiting package when this package also offers greater total benefit to the self-other collective (studies 1 and 2). We propose that a friendly intention (i.e., concern for the total benefit) underlies the friendly taking effec...

We investigate the process of fixation of advantageous mutations in an asexual population. We assume that the effect of each beneficial mutation is exponentially distributed with mean value ωmed = 1/β. The model also considers that the effect of each new deleterious mutation reduces the fitness of the organism independent on the previous number of mutations. We use the branching process formula...

Manyof the lllechanismsthat lead to the ultimate failure of an integrated circuit maybe evident early in the life of a device and should be detectable if sufficiently precise electrical llleasurements are made. A variety of tests have been I114deon mediumscale CMOScircuits to evaluate this hypothesis. These have included leakage current, transient current, electrical noise, upper cut off freque...

The cataclysmic 18 May 1980 eruption at Mount St. Helens was preceded by intense seismic activity marking the mechanical response of the volcanic edifice to interior pressurisation. This seismicity is analysed to yield the temporal change in the seismic scaling exponent, D, inferred from the seismic b-value, that in-turn is related to the seismic moment of an earthquake. Time evolution of D pre...

To render inoperative the machine that governs our conception of man will therefore mean … to risk ourselves in this emptiness: the suspension of suspension, Shabbat of both animal and man. (Agamben, The Open 92) In The Open, Giorgio Agamben diagnoses the history of both science and philosophy as part of what he calls the " anthropological machine " through which the human is created with and a...

From its inception, NASA has pushed the boundaries of science and engineering and prided itself on knowing how to manage these engineering innovations. However, pushing the management boundaries requires a careful adaptation of risks, resources, and procedures, and projects must clearly assess the complexities and uncertainties of the task. Too often attempts to resolve errors in these areas ar...

Using the formula of shear bearing force of oblique cross section in eccentrically loaded column, we analyze the stress acting on short-leg shear wall and conventional eccentrically loaded column. We propose the formula for calculating the shear bearing force of oblique cross section of short-leg shear wall that considers the action of vertical reinforcing steel bars, flange and axial compressi...

We evaluated the effects of a major ice storm on understory light conditions (%PPFD, photosynthetic photon flux density) in an old-growth Acer–Fagus forest in Quebec, based on preand post-disturbance light measurements taken until the seventh growing season after the event (which occurred in January 1998). Before the ice storm, most microsites received between 2 and 4%PPFD. Following the ice st...

In a recent paper, Polchinski and Strassler found a string theory dual of a gauge theory with reduced supersymmetry. Motivated by their approach, we perturb the N = 8 theory living on a set of N M2 branes to N = 2, by adding fermion mass terms. We obtain M-theory duals corresponding to M2 branes polarized into M5 branes, in AdS4 × S7. In the course of doing this we come across an interesting fe...

Monotonic and fatigue tests were carried out in four-point bending on a glass fabric/epoxy composite, using two different stress ratios. Ultimate failure both in monotonic tests and in fatigue was precipitated by microbuckling phenomena happening at the compression side of the specimens. The experimental results were evaluated adopting a fatigue model statistically implemented, based on the hyp...