Embedded in traditional culture perpetuating family-centered elderly care, informal care is still viewed as a family or moral issue rather than a social and policy issue in South Korea. Using newly available microdata from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging, this study investigates the effect of informal caregiving on labor market outcomes in South Korea. By doing so, this study provides ev...

This paper presents a system called CodeBreaker for supporting small and medium size software development based on an extreme programming principle. The system follows a decentralized model of development, which means, it does not requires a central repository. A set of rules for code ownership maintains the synchronization of the work among all members of the deveoping team which can wokl onor...

We investigate a version of the Mastermind game, where the codebreaker may only store a constant number of questions and answers, called Constant-Size Memory Mastermind, which was recently introduced by Doerr and Winzen. We concentrate on the worst case, where the codebreaker may store only one question and one answer, called Size-One Memory Mastermind. We consider two variants of the game: the...

there is a semi-proverbial expression in some persian literary texts that has not yet indexed in none of persian dictionaries –such as loqat-nameh or any other proverb references and has been totally neglected. accordingly it seems necessary being explained.  it has been mentioned under different topics such as ibn-e hâjib’s lamb, ibn-e hâjib’s sheep, ibn-e hâjib’s ewe in divans of adib-ol-mamâ...

the existence of eight imitations and five translations of hosn va del into other languages such as english and german shows the importance of this persian book of verse. many researchers have sought the sources of this work and some sources have been mentioned, but the imitation of sibak neishaburi from nezami’s khosrow va shirin, as the most important source of this work, has not yet been m...

to study the causes of difficulties in understanding the german short story bypersian learners from the perspective of text linguistics first we have searchedthe factors of cohesion and coherence in german texts in a short story. then wehave checked its translations by the students and observed that these people arefamiliar with the grammatical structure of each sentence and the vocabulary ofth...

zipper braced frames are an innovative bracing system for steel structures. conventional inverted-v-braced frames exhibit a design problem arising from the unbalanced vertical force generated by the lower story braces when one of them buckles. this adverse effect can be mitigated by adding zipper columns or vertical members connecting the intersection points of the braces above the first floor....

plan irregularity causes local damages being concentrated in the irregular buildings. progressive collapse is also the collapse of a large portion or whole building due to the local damages in the structure. the effect of irregularity on the progressive collapse potential of the buildings is investigated in this study. this is carried out by progressive collapse evaluation of the asymmetric mid...