Beliefs about whether people can change ("lay theories" of malleability) are known to have wide-ranging effects on social motivation, cognition, and judgment. Yet rather than holding an overarching belief that people can or cannot change, perceivers may hold independent beliefs about whether different people are malleable-that is, lay theories may be target-specific. Seven studies demonstrate t...

This paper reports on our experiences in parallelizing WaterGAP, an originally sequential C++ program for global assessment and prognosis of water availability. The parallel program runs on a heterogeneous SMP cluster and combines different parallel programming paradigms: First, at its outer level, it uses master/slave communication implemented with MPI. Second, within the slave processes, mult...

Recent advances in molecular genetics methods have provided new means of determining the genetic bases of human behavioral traits. The impetus for the use of these approaches for specific behaviors depends, in large part, on previous familial studies on inheritance of such traits. In the past, a finding of a genetic basis for a trait was often accompanied with the idea that that trait is unchan...

We prove that if a countable group Γ contains a non-amenable subgroup with centralizer infinite and “weakly normal” in Γ (e.g. if Γ is non-amenable and has infinite center or is a product of infinite groups) then any measure preserving Γ-action on a probability space which satisfies certain malleability, spectral gap and weak mixing conditions is cocycle superrigid. We also show that if Γ y X i...

Objectives: The aim of this study is to confirm the main hypothesis of this work indicating that impairment of abstract thinking is met with in non psychotic psychiatric patients more than is usually believed. Method: The study group consists of 60 subjects; 20 non psychotic psychiatric patients (1 0 obsessives and 10 conversion), 20 schizophrenic patients and normal subjects. Impaired abstract...

Continuous welded turnouts are important for CWR track through the railway station. According to equivalent resistance and non-linear theories and the principle of force diagram, a new method of theoretical calculation for continuous welded turnouts was developed. The continuous welded turnouts designed and installed according to the new theory behaved fairly well. The data collected on sites b...

We propose a new security measure for commitment protocols, called Universally Composable (UC) Commitment. The measure guarantees that commitment protocols behave like an “ideal commitment service,” even when concurrently composed with an arbitrary set of protocols. This is a strong guarantee: it implies that security is maintained even when an unbounded number of copies of the scheme are runni...

Abstract Food values are supposed to be stable. This paper tests this assumption by comparing food before and during the coronavirus-19 pandemic. While ranking of remains very similar, there some interesting differences in relative importance that consumers attached A substantial decrease attach safety was observed pandemic, while a moderate increase taste, nutrition, appearance, convenience or...