Aggressive driving behavior is an important cause of traffic accidents. Based on the recent view that aggressive driving is one way that trait aggression manifests itself, a growing research area has focused on the development of scales to assess aggressive driving. The aggressive driving scale (ADS) analyzed in the present study consists of 24 items. A sample of 276 participants was analyzed t...

In this report, which is an extended version of that appearing in the Proceedings of GR16, I will give a summary of the main topics covered in Session A.3. on mathematical relativity at GR16, Durban. The summary is mainly based on extended abstracts submitted by the speakers. I would like to thank all participants for their contributions and help with this summary. According to a conjecture by ...

Artemisia annua L. produces small amounts of the sesquiterpenoid artemisinin, which is used for treatment of malaria. A worldwide shortage of the drug has led to intense research to increase the yield of artemisinin in the plant. In order to study the regulation of expression of a key enzyme of artemisinin biosynthesis, the promoter region of the key enzyme amorpha-4,11-diene synthase (ADS) was...

Advertising used to be heavily controlled by marketers. The role of a consumer in advertising realm is merely a passive viewer. Thanks to the developments of media technology, consumers start to obtain powers in controlling ad viewing and shaping ad appearance through diverse advertising forms. Such powers obtained by consumers represent the coming of a new era of advertising, in which consumer...

We discuss the role of conformal matter quantum effects (using large N anomaly induced effective action) to creation-annihilation of an Anti-de Sitter Universe. The quantum maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory covariantly coupled with classical N = 4 conformal supergravity is considered as a typical example of conformal GUT. On a purely gravitational (supersymmetric) AdS background, the q...

OBJECTIVE The Alcohol Dependence Scale (ADS) yields continuous scores purported to reflect the severity of the dependence syndrome. We evaluated the concurrent validity of the ADS as a general measure of severity and the screening accuracy of the total score and subscales to detect Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), physiological dependence. METHOD...

OBJECTIVES The principal aim was to investigate the feasibility of assessing mother-infant interactions at discharge and at 6 months infant corrected age in singletons born before 32 weeks of gestation. The secondary aims were to describe these interactions and their disorders, explore the association between maternal emotional state and the interactions, and assess the relationship between dis...

Many applications on Android rely on advertisements for revenue. In the current advertisement model, ad libraries are linked to host applications and their permission requirements are coupled. More permissions means more targeted ads, which brings more revenue. As a result, developers tend to seek more permissions from the user, which is not desirable with regard to the user’s privacy. In this ...