One of the most basic topics in social psychology is the way one agent influences the behaviour of another. This paper will focus on threats, which are an intensified form of attempted behavioural influence. Despite the centrality to the project of social psychology little attention has been paid to threats. This paper will start to rectify this oversight. It reviews early examples of the way s...

There is a theory of continued fractions for formal power series in x−1 with coefficients in a field Fq. This theory bears a close analogy with classical continued fractions for real numbers with formal power series playing the role of real numbers and the sum of the terms of non-negative degree in x playing the role of the integral part. In this paper we give a family of formal power series in...

A new family of recursive power-series distributions involving the generalized hypergeometric function is proposed. The probability generating and moment generating functions are given; and extensions of the Poisson, geometric, negative binomial, log-series, and generalized Waring distributions are presented as examples.

throughout history “family” has undergone changes. among the factors affecting these changes are the increasing participation of women in public areas and entering the world of employment. when women were employed and left homes it transformed the form of traditional family life and power structure between men and women in the family interactions was changed. in this paper the influence of wome...

Qian, Luscombe, and Gerstein (2001) introduced a model of the diversification of protein folds in a genome that we may formulate as follows. Consider a multitype Yule process starting with one individual in which there are no deaths and each individual gives birth to a new individual at rate one. When a new individual is born, it has the same type as its parent with probability 1 − r and is a n...

A fundamental issue that arises after fitting a regression model is that of testing the goodness of the fit. Our work brings together the power divergence family of goodness of fit tests and regression models for categorical time series. We show that under some reasonable assumptions, the asymptotic distribution of the power divergence family of goodness of fit tests converges to a normal rando...

The power family, also known as the family of constant relative risk aversion (CRRA), is the most widely used parametric family for fitting utility functions to data. Its characteristics have, however, been little understood, and have led to numerous misunderstandings. This paper explains these characteristics in a manner accessible to a wide audience.

A new dynamic differential logic family, Short-Circuit Current Logic (SCL), is proposed for low-power high-performance applications. It achieves low-power consumption by using an aggressively reduced logic swing without requiring restoration circuitry. Using a 0.35μm CMOS technology and a nominal supply voltage of 3.3V, a SCL full-adder 8 carry ripple adder (CRA) is implemented. It offers an or...