While it is well established that alcohol consumption a gendered practice, the supposedly more progressive ethos of emerging craft drinks sector suggests possibility for great gender equality. However, as growing body research shows, cultures, and beer in particular, remain heavily with number features working to establish maintain both production masculine domain. In relation consumption, show...

the purpose of the present study was to examine the psychometric features (construct reliability and validity) of baker’s  (2008) 13 - item work  related fondness questionnaire. so  260  employees of  iran air craft construction company were selected to respond to the questionnaire through multiple clustered random sampling. the exploring factor structure via varimax   rotation  in work  relate...

For over 2000 years the manual craft of papermaking has been practiced all over the world utilizing a variety of techniques. This review describes the evolution of hand papermaking and its cultural significance. Paper’s evolution has been shaped by the structure and chemical composition of the fibers. Almost every aspect of modern papermaking technology has been foreshadowed by traditional prac...

Green pea (Pisum sativum L. var. Alaska) stem segments that were aged in buffer responded differently after aging depending on whether they were floating or submerged, or bubbled with air or N(2). Segments aged anaerobically for only 1 to 2 hours at 23 C responded to subsequent aerobic conditions by elongating more rapidly than aerobically aged sections. Longer periods of anaerobic treatment (u...

Memory leaks are recognized to be one of the major causes of memory exhaustion problems in complex software systems. This paper proposes a practical approach to detect aging phenomena caused by memory leaks in distributed objects Off-The-Shelf middleware, which are commonly used to develop critical applications. The approach, which is validated on a real-world case study from the Air Traffic Co...

The European project PHASE aims to evaluate patterns of change in the temperature-mortality relationship and in the number of deaths attributable to heat in nine European cities in two periods, before and after summer 2003 (1996-2002 and 2004-2010). We performed age-specific Poisson regression models separately in the two periods, controlling for seasonality, air pollution and time trends. Dist...

The concept and application of ‘creative learning’ is being developed in England in particular through work both in schools and elsewhere, supported by organisations such as Creative Partnerships (Creative Partnerships, 2006; Brice-Heath and Wolf, 2004; Lamont and Hill, 2005), National College for School Leadership (NCSL, 2006), the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA, 2005a, 2005b) an...

The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) currently receives NEXRAD Doppler radar level II (base) data from 120 NWS, 12 FAA and 26 DOD sites on 8mm tape or online. The NCDC is partnering with the NWS Radar Operations Center, the National Severe Storms Lab, the University of Oklahoma and UNIDATA on the Collaborative Radar Acquisition Field Test (CRAFT) project (Droegemeier et al. 2002). CRAFT sta...

background : china has become an aging society, and the mental health problem of the elderly is increasingly becom-ing prominent. this paper aimed to analyze the effect of air pollution and rural-urban difference on mental health of the elderly in china. methods : using the data from the china health and retirement longitudinal survey (charls, 2013), after control-ling the social demography var...