This study investigates whether objective self-report measures of personality are better regarded as sources of factual information about the self (i.e., as self-disclosures), or as ways to instruct others about how one is to be regarded (i.e., as self-presentations). The two per­ spectives were compared by testing the unique, divergent predictions each made about the kinds of personality varia...

the first international convention on maritime transportation is thebrussels’ convention of 1924. this convention was widely acceptedthroughout the world and; thus, lasted for a long time due to the widespreadsupport of the countries possessing fleet for this convention and the lack ofexistence of a legal document in terms of maritime transportation. thepassage of time together with innovations...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the largest known remaining anthropogenic threat to the stratospheric ozone layer. However, it is currently only regulated under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol because of its simultaneous ability to warm the climate. The threat N2O poses to the stratospheric ozone layer, coupled with the uncertain future of the international climate regime, motivates our exploration of issues th...

Today’s converged networks are increasingly based on MPLS technology. To provide reliable carrier-grade service, MPLS-based recovery procedures must be able to quickly address any link or node failure. Current standardized MPLS fast recovery mechanisms cannot cope with egress node failure. We present a dual plane core network architecture, a path naming convention and a simple recovery mechanis...

This paper describes two architectures for designing asynchronous NULL Convention Logic (NCL) Booth2 multipliers. The first is better suited for a non-pipelined implementation, while the second is best for a high throughput pipelined realization. The two architectures are compared in terms of area and speed, using a gate-level NCL VHDL library with gate delays generated from physical level simu...

It is well known that some XML elements correspond to objects (in the sense of object-orientation) and others do not. The question we consider in this paper is what benefits we can derive from paying attention to such object semantics, particularly for the problem of keyword queries. Keyword queries against XML data have been studied extensively in recent years, with several lowest-common-ances...