Participation in leisure activities is an important arena for the positive psychological development of adolescents. The present study set out to examine the relationship between adolescents' satisfaction of the psychological needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy in their participation in leisure activities and their perceived life satisfaction. The aim was to identify the extent to w...

Mathematicians often speak of conjectures as being confirmed by evidence that falls short of proof. For their own conjectures, evidence justifies further work in looking for a proof. Those conjectures of mathematics that have long resisted proof, as Fermat’s Last Theorem did and the Riemann Hypothesis still does, have had to be considered in terms of the evidence for and against them. It is not...

Abstract Live streaming services enable the audience to interact with one another and streamer over live content. The surging popularity of platforms has created a competitive environment. To retain existing viewers attract newcomers, streamers fans often create well-condensed summary streamed However, this process is manual costly due length online events. current study identifies enjoyable mo...

Abstract This work presents an efficient parallel implementation of density-based robust topology optimization (RTO) using adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) schemes permitting us to address the problem with modest computational resources. We use sparse grid stochastic collocation methods (SCMs) for transforming RTO into a weighted multiple-loading deterministic at points. The calculation these pro...

Abstract Why do authoritarian states sometimes play up dangerous international crises and embarrassing diplomatic incidents in domestic propaganda? Is it to mobilize, threaten, divert, or pacify? Recent studies comparative politics have focused on regime legitimacy stability as key drivers of propaganda practices, leaving aside other possible motivations such mobilization the regime’s allies st...

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) constitutes an irritating and embarrassing problem for estimated 11–16% of the Danish population. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how young middle-aged people diagnosed with IBS attend to, experience, manage gut trouble in a welfare context. It asks we may understand relation between IBS, irritation, attention. Drawing conceptualis...

AIM to identify the leisure activities performed in Long-Stay Institutions for the Elderly (LSIEs), registered in the city of Maringá-PR, Brazil, and to analyze the attitude of the elderly people toward leisure promoted by the institutions. METHOD this was a descriptive and transversal study with a quantitative approach, carried out with 97 elderly people, through the establishment of the soc...

1196 an embarrassing corrective lesson. The wrong-doings of the media are not as common as is often claimed. Scientific research is also an overwhelmingly honest profession. But both the media and scientists have misled the public on some important matters. And when it comes to uncovering fraud, freedom of the press and an editor who backs an investigative reporter can be superior to the mechan...