In this paper, we describe: (a) our experiences and accomplishments in the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB) Research Scholars Mentoring Program; (b) current state mentorship field sexually transmitted infections (STIs); (c) fundamental factors successful mentoring, including alignment with personal values, transparency, intentionality, respect, equity, empathy, emotional intelligence....

My research areas include VLSI CAD, FPGA testing and trust design, fault-tolerant computing and parallel processing. We have also made a recent foray into optimization. Our work has received one best paper and one most-influential paper awards, one featured speaker recognition, and one best paper nomination, all at premier conferences. My research has been or is funded by NSF, DARPA and AFOSR, ...

the category of verb as the nucleus of sentence has a significant importance in grammar. this grammatical category has specific semantic and syntactic characteristics in different languages. in role and reference grammar as a functional grammar, predicates are classified into five classes including states, activities, achievements, accomplishments and active-accomplishments. these five classes ...

The component and architectural design reuse value of application frameworks enables higher productivity, faster turn-around time, and reduced cost when compared with the traditional development approaches. Because of the constrained nature of mobile devices, the application frameworks for such a computing environment have to provide a simple and lightweight implementation while still maintaini...

When I received the invitation to contribute an article to this series about “personal accomplishments I am proud of and which could be inspiring for young urologists,” I felt fl attered, but turned it down. I really do not feel like a “legend,” and trying to fi nd arguments for my case appeared prohibitive. The Editorial Board of CJU, after considering my excuses, determined that they do not m...

This study applies the techniques of contrastive ethnopragmatics to communicative style in initial conversational interactions in three varieties of Anglo English: Australian English, American English, and English English. It proposes for each variety a distinctive suite of cultural scripts concerning matters such as presumed stance in relation to sameness and difference, degree of attention to...