1 The author is an independent researcher. He received a PhD in physics from MIT. His research areas include semiconductor physics, marketing science, management science, and the psychology of dreams, conformity, obedience and short term memory. Abstract Recently it was shown that free recall consists of two stages: the first few recalls empty the working memory and a second stage concludes the...

khaled hussain builds up the text of his novel “the kite runner” on the borders of the biography and novel imagination and chronicles the changes of the consciousness in this active and reactive self about what happens with it and what goes around it, and with the other characters that direct the events of narration, its development and its interaction with openness to the future, as it was...

When Christos Papadimitriou graduated in 1972 from the National Technical University of Athens in his native Greece, he arrived at a breaking point. Like all Greek men he was required to join the armed forces, and he enlisted while the country struggled under military rule. “I went in fully expecting to serve and then work quietly as an engineer somewhere,” Papadimitriou recalls. “But during mi...

With the beginning of the 19th century, England entered into a transitional period. Sociologists believe that in each era of transformation, the ruling class tries to establish its own values, but some resistance to these new values is inevitable. Thomas Hardy's novels in general, and Under the Greenwood Tree specifically, are no exception. Based on these notions, this paper tries to interpret ...

"DEL (1963) recently discussed the various ways in which genetic correlaR:ons may be generated. In particular he suggested that, when the development of two characters is dependent upon common resources (T), then it is reasonable to assume that a proportion ( a ) of T will be used to develop one character and the remaining proportion (1-a) will be used to develop the other character. Hence a an...

We analyze the sourcing decisions of firms that may choose between two types of suppliers: responsible suppliers that are costly but adhere to the strictest social and environmental responsibility standards, and normal suppliers that are less expensive but may randomly experience responsibility violations. There are two potential consequences of any such violation to the buying firm: costs may ...

When Linnik introduced the classical large-sieve in 1941 [Lin], he was motivated by the following problem: given a non-trivial primitive character χ modulo q, how large (compared to q) can be the first n such that χ(n) = 1? From the Riemann Hypothesis one can deduce (see [Mon] chapter 13 for instance) n (log q) 2 and the (weaker) conjecture n q ε for all ε > 0 is known as Vinogradov's conjectur...

At age sixteen, Rodney Bruntmyer was sentenced to eight years in prison for setting a dumpster on fire.2 He was raped and then removed from, and against his wishes returned to, the general population.3 There he was raped again and repeatedly forced to perform oral sex on other inmates.4 At age seventeen, Rodney hung himself in his cell.5 His mother recalls that when she talked to the warden reg...