In spite of a growing presence of pornography in contemporary life, little is known about its potential effects on young people's sexual socialization and sexual satisfaction. In this article, we present a theoretical model of the effects of sexually explicit materials (SEM) mediated by sexual scripting and moderated by the type of SEM used. An on-line survey dataset that included 650 young Cro...

To investigate the nature of Pn propagation, we have implemented the spectral-element method (SEM) for vertically and laterally varying media with and without attenuation. As a practical measure, essential features of the Pn waves are distilled into seismic attributes including arrival times, amplitudes and pulse frequencies. To validate the SEM simulations, we first compare the SEM results wit...

All too frequently, a software cost estimate is required in the early stages of the life-cycle when requirements and design specifications are immature. To produce a cost estimate under these conditions requires extensive use of expert judgment and addressing significant estimation uncertainty. Research has shown that expert judgment under the right conditions can yield relatively "accurate" es...

The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is probably one the most fascinating examination approach that has been used since more than two decades to detailed inspection of micro scale objects. Most of the scanning electron microscopes could only produce 2D images that could not assist operational analysis of microscopic surface properties. Computer vision algorithms combined with very advanced ge...

Supplementary information S1: SEM micrographs of four SiNCs (tilt 70°) and one SiNW (tilt 45°) fabricated by cryogenic RIE with SF6 and O2 chemistry (scale bar is 1μm). Masking is performed with silica spheres (diameter 1μm). Different shapes can be realized by the adjustment of O2 concentration in the plasma that results in a different amount of under etching. The table gives the geometrical p...

This study was conducted to extract first, the underlying factors of Home Culture Attachment Scale (HCAS) and second, to confirm these factors via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analysis. To meet this end, the scale was distributed to 374 English language learners in private language institutes in Mashhad, Iran. To determine the construct validity of the scale, Exploratory Factor Analysis (...

Recently several multicast mechanisms [3], known as small group multicast, were proposed that scale better with the number of multicast sessions than traditional multicast does. In this paper, we propose a new approach, Simple Explicit Multicast (SEM), which uses an efficient method to construct multicast trees and deliver multicast packets. SEM is original because it adopts the source-specific...