This paper is concerned with investigating Robin Lakoff’s claims about tentativeness in women’s language and the influence of media role models on reproducing gender stereotypes. The aim of this research project was to investigate representations of women’s language in German and Australian soap operas. The project focused on the frequency and the functions of sentenc...

To enable checking of SOAP messages for compliance to a given security policy, extensions to the classical “Schema-only” validation of SOAP messages are required. These extensions check, if the WS-Security elements found in a SOAP message fulfill the Web Service security specification that is laid down in the WS-SecurityPolicy document. In this paper, we discuss to what extent the proposed exte...

A novel alcalophilic Staphylococcus haemolyticus strain with the lipolytic activity was used to perform enzymatic hydrolysis pretreatment of soap stock: a lipid rich solid waste from an oil refining industry. The culture liquid of the selected bacteria and an enzymatic preparation obtained by precipitation with ammonium sulphate from a filtrate of the same culture liquid were used for enzymatic...

Distributed software component architectures provide a promising approach to the problem of building large scale, scientiic Grid applications 8]. Communication in these component architectures is based on Remote Method Invocation (RMI) protocols that allow one software component to invoke the functionality of another. Examples include Java remote method invocation (Java-RMI))3] and the new Simp...

Although the cardinal attribute of turbulence is the velocity fluctuations, these fluctuations have been ignored in theories of the frictional drag of turbulent flows. Our goal is to test a new theory that links the frictional drag to the spectral exponent α, a property of the velocity fluctuations in a flow. We use a soap-film channel wherein for the first time the value of α can be switched b...

Handwashing practices among caretakers of case and control children < 5 years of age enrolled in the Global Enteric Multicenter Study in Mirzapur, Bangladesh were characterized and analyzed for association with moderate-to-severe diarrhea. Soap or detergent ownership was common, yet 48% of case and 47.7% of control caretakers also kept ashes for handwashing, including 36.8% of the wealthiest ho...

Kudos for thinking about how your behavior might affect your long-term health and writing in to ask about it! What you describe may be considered behavior associated with pica, which is considered a craving to eat non-nutritive, non-food items. The research is unclear as to why some people exhibit pica behavior, but there are some potential correlations (read on for more). Depending on the subs...

The effect of preoperative whole-body washing with chlorhexidine detergent on the incidence of postoperative wound infection was assessed in a placebo-controlled trial of 1989 patients. Patients bathed or showered with chlorhexidine, placebo, or conventional bar soap, on two occasions in the 24 h before operation. The overall infection rate for patients treated with chlorhexidine was 9%, agains...