We report on the first direct measurement of the change of the surface stress in the reconstruction of the Au(111) and the Au(100) surfaces. For both surfaces the reconstruction relaxes the intrinsic tensile stress, by 22% and 5%, respectively. A discussion of the data on the Au(111) surface in the FrenkelKontorova model shows that the energy gain due to the surface stress is not quite large en...

A ftcr the tragedies of September 11, the Public Relat ions Society of America (PRSA) asked its 20 ,000 members how public relations professionals could best help the country. Thousands responded, and their top recommendation was to help the Red Cross help Americans. "Recause the Red (joss is always at the center of disaster-relief efforts and public relations professionals often play essential...

Abstract The global introduction of COVID‐19 vaccines provided relief to the burden inflicted by SARS‐CoV‐2 virus. However, reports vaccine wastage are still apparent in some countries, particularly Philippines. This paper examines phenomenon with emphasis on factors related improper storage and distribution hesitancy whose roots may be traced a controversial rollout. discussion elaborates foll...

Humanitarian relief work is a growing field characterized by ongoing exposure to primary and secondary trauma, which has implications for workers' occupational mental health. This paper reviews and summarizes research to date on mental health effects of relief work. Twelve studies on relief workers and 5 studies on organizations that employ relief workers are examined to determine whether relie...

INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of Islamic work ethic in the relationship between spiritual intelligence and occupational self-efficacy in the Red Crescent relief workers. METHODS: This applied research was conducted based on a descriptive-survey design. The statistical population consisted of all Red Crescent relief workers in Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran (n...

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of pain relief following injection of local anesthetic (LA) into lumbar discs that caused concordant pain during provocation testing. DESIGN Prospective collected data review from two centers and compare with published results. OUTCOME MEASURES We compared subjective reported pain relief following provocative testing using the following protocols at three ...

In humanitarian relief operations (HRO), due to the excessive number of relief organizations, multiple organizational coordination is a demanding and complicated task. Considering such a problem, this paper proposes a two-phase mechanism to coordinate multiple heterogeneous relief organizations in a decentralized HRO logistics network. To address such a problem, first a bi-level mixed integer l...