Divorce is often accompanied by feelings of guilt towards the former spouse. So far, no scale has been available to measure such feelings. For this purpose, we developed the Guilt in Separation Scale (GiSS). Content validity was assured by using experts and lay experts to generate and select items. This item pool was comprehensive in terms of both content and quantity. Exploratory analyses were...

Many geographic information systems (GISs) attempt to imitate the manual process of laying transparent map layers over one another on a light table and analyzing the resulting configurations. While this map-overlay metaphor, familiar to many geo-scientists, has been used as a design principle for the underlying architecture of GISs, it has not yet been visually manifested at the user interface....

We examined the activity of CB-181963, a novel cephalosporin, against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (n = 200), methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) (n = 50), glycopeptide-intermediate Staphylococcus species (GISS) (n = 47), and VRSA (n = 2) isolates. CB-181963 exhibited MIC profiles similar to those of linezolid against MRSA and GISS; however, activity against MSSA was ...

[1] Downwelling surface solar radiation is an important input to ecosystem models, and global models require spatially extensive data sets that vary interannually to capture effects that potentially drive changes in ecosystem function. In this paper, I describe and compare solar radiation data sets from two representative sources, National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalyses ...

Geographic information systems (GISS) were introduced into China (Mainland) in the 1970s. This paper provides an overview of the advances in GISs in Mainland China (not including Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau) during the past more than 20 years. It covers the developments of operational application systems, national geospatial databases, and technical systems. It also reviews the advances in res...

This paper illustrates the origin, mission, organization and main activities of Interdivisional Group Separation Science (Gruppo Interdivisionale di Scienza delle Separazioni, GISS) Italian Chemical Society in occasion twentieth anniversary this organization, whose mission is to promote disseminate knowledge on all aspects separation science facilitate strong peer-to-peer relationships. GISS or...

The data model upon which most of today’s commercial database management systems are based has shown to be insufficient for geographic information systems (GISs). The recently promoted object-oriented model provides some useful tools for data abstraction and data structuring, which augment the conventional tools and overcomes some deficiencies inherent to the traditional relational model. In pa...

 This paper discusses traditional development models of GIS and proposes another model, geographical information system shell(GISS). Following the thought of GISS, a geographic information query tool(GIQT) is developed. GIQT's main purpose and menu structure are introduced, as well as the classification and encoding. This paper especially describes the implementation of "two-direction multi-fu...