OBJECTIVE This study examined the extent to which associations between volunteering and subjective well-being (SWB) could be related to volunteers having more supportive social networks relative to nonvolunteers. METHOD The sample consisted of 561 midlife and older adults (aged 55-94 years) from the TRAnsitions In Later Life study. Multiple mediation analyses examined associations between hou...

The purpose of Oriental COCOSDA is to exchange ideas, to share information and to discuss regional matters on creation, utilization, dissemination of spoken language corpora of oriental languages and also on the assessment methods of speech recognition/synthesis systems as well as to promote speech research on oriental languages. A series of International Workshop on East Asian Language Resourc...

A new species of Corynoneura Winnertz (1846) from Oriental China, C. ecphora sp. n. is described and illustrated as male. A distribution map of adult males in Oriental China is given. A key to known males of Oriental China is provided.

The Oriental species of Microplitis Foerster are reviewed. 21 species are recognized from the Oriental region, of which two are described as new, Microplitis narendrani sp. nov. and M. pennatulae sp. nov., and Microplitis carinicollis (Cameron), M. demolitor Wilkinson, M. maculipennis (Szépligeti) and M. similis Lyle are redescribed. Four species, Microplitis areyongensis Austin & Dangerfield, ...

Machine understanding of hand,filled documents in China, Japan and Korea requires not only general solutions of document analysis but also ability to handle peculiarities of the Oriental languages. As expected, handwritten Chinese character recognition is the major task for it. In addition, Japanese Kana, Korean Hangul, Roman alphabet as well as numerals are targets of recognition. The main dif...

Malaria, Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Urinary Tract Infection, Yellow fever, Hepatitis-B, Leprosy and Chicken Pox are the existing tropical diseases that are considered in this work. In sub-Saharan Africa, the application of fuzzy logic to the diagnosis of these diseases is still very sparse and in some places practically nonexistent. Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic ar...

The paper analyzes the management activities of professor-orientalist A.M. Pozdneev, first director Oriental Institute in Vladivostok, who also served as head Vladivostok Men’s Gymnasium. study was conducted context problem formation and development oriental studies Russian Far East. It highlights role directorial body two different educational institutions is particularly important shows diffi...