Akın for his valuable comments during the thesis defense and also his trust on me for offering a part-time instructorship position in the department during my studies. I had a long and confusing journey for this thesis in the last seven years. Unfortunately , not being an idealist full-time PhD candidate researcher all the time, PhD dissertation seemed to be the main motivation that seriously a...

The “particle in a box'' is a standard second year quantum mechanics problem, much beloved by lecturers and mastered by successive generations of undergraduates. An electron bubble in liquid helium provides a strikingly simple example of this kind of system, and theory predicts that it should exhibit a series of excited states. But these states have never been demonstrated experimentally. Now D...

Plan to spend some time reading this information-dense issue with a large amount of new material and ideas. From the humanoid behavioral health coach to tackling the controversial topic of environmental causes of autism spectrum disorders, this issue encompasses a broad range of topics. New anticoagulants for an extremely common entity, atrial fibrillation, are discussed. Learn about the shocki...

Background Early childhood education (ECE) in China has gone through many dramatic changes during the past century, associated intricately with the fall and rise of the Chinese economy, politics, culture, and society (Li and Wang 2008; Zhu and Zhang 2008). Strongly influenced by its neighboring Japan, former partner Soviet Union, and the powerful United States, China has been learning from othe...

the present article intends to study badr shakir al sayyab poetries in descriptive – analytical method by place semiotics which is paid attention by linguists. the outcome is that the study of place semiotics assists us to find the place beauties in sayyab poetries and discover the hidden treasures inside his poetry by the cities and villages he met his beloved. this article has been done based...

N color palette—the changing sky, autumn leaves, the tinted irises of beloved eyes—has allured human interest since time immemorial. Scientific advances over the past twenty years have led to a far better understanding of the relevance and physiological basis of color experience than ever before. Recent research in molecular genetics, color perception and cognitive psychology is clarifying the ...