The study on the dynamic characteristics of light steel residential structural system has both theoretical and practical significance for the application and promotion of light steel residential structural system. In this paper, we analyze several common types of light steel residential structural system, describe the dynamic characteristics of the light steel residential structural system for ...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW There are many different factors involved in how and why people develop problems with video game playing. One such set of factors concerns the structural characteristics of video games (i.e., the structure, elements, and components of the video games themselves). Much of the research examining the structural characteristics of video games was initially based on research and th...

a r t i c l e i n f o The study aimed to investigate the sex differences in the reciprocal relations between parental corporal punishment and child internalizing problem behavior in China. Four hundred fifty-four Chinese elementary school-age children completed measures of their parental corporal punishment toward them and their own internalizing problem behavior at two time points, 6 months ap...

To date, researchers have shown that males are more likely to pirate software from the Internet than females (Hollinger, 1993; Hinduja, 2001, 2003). The purpose of this paper is to determine if low self-control or social learning theory can reduce the gender gap in software piracy. Using a nonrandom sample of college students, in four individual structural equation models, this study provides i...

Article history: Received 23 December 2015 Received in revised form 19 February 2016 Accepted 21 February 2016 Available online 28 February 2016 This study explored a longitudinal data set of 3725 sixteen year olds examining parental social status (at birth), childhood intelligence, self-esteem, personality traits and behavioural problems (all measured at age 10) that influence teenage locus of...

Dynamic usability-testing is required for the improvement of various Human-Computer interactive systems. This paper examines the indices of assessing usability using the frequency spectrum of eyemovements up to four Hz. An input operational task experiment was conducted using a mouse (Mouse), a keyboard (KeyBD) and a keypad (KeyPAD), and the conventional subjective system usability measurements...

Background: Although obesity and physical activity influence psychosocial well-being, these effects may vary based on race, gender, and their intersection. Using 6-year follow-up data of a nationally representative sample of adults over age of 50 in the United States, this study aimed to explore race by gender differences in additive effects of sustained high body mass index (BMI) and physical ...