the term massage comes from the french verb” masser” which means to rub. in greek, it comes from the word “masso” which means to rub with the hands. massage therapy has been very common among different nations since antiquity. in iranian traditional medicine, the word “dalk” has been used with the meaning of massage. among various functions known for giving massage that used for the athletes re...

09:00 – 10:30 Workshop on Mining Complex and Stream Data (MCSD 2012) Machine-generated Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities Graham Toppin (invited talk) SONCA. Scalable Semantic Processing of Rapidly Growing Document Stores Marek Grzegorowski, Przemysław Wiktor Pardel, Sebastian Stawicki, Krzysztof Stencel Soft competitive learning for large data sets Frank-Michael Schleif, Xibin Zhu, B...

While controversy surrounds skewness attributes of typical yield distributions, a better understanding is important for agricultural policy assessment and for crop insurance rate setting. Day (1965) conjectured that crop yield skewness declines with an increase in low levels of nitrogen use, but higher levels have no effect. In a theoretical model based on the law of the minimum (von Liebig) te...

The shifting status of transgender practices within the queer subculture has resulted in a renaissance of drag that has taken it into the mainstream culture of mass media, fine arts, and high fashion. Thus, Demi Moore has been featured in a suit and facial hair in an Arena magazine drag spread. Drag kings have also appeared prominently in such varied mainstream publications as Marie Claire, the...

We determine the distribution of size and growthrates of German business firms in 1987-1997. We find a log-normal size distribution. The distribution of growth rates has fat tails. It can be fitted to an exponential in a narrow central region and is dominated by finite-sample-size effects far in its wings. We study the dependence of the growth rate distribution on firm size: depending on proced...

To my Mom. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Helal for all the encouragement, guidance and above all the motivation that he has constantly provided. He has been of real help providing me with the right direction for this thesis work and writing. Without him the thesis would not have been possible. I also thank Dr. Hammer and Dr. Su for being on my thesis committee. I wou...

Building on earlier research undertaken at the Australian Institute of Criminology (Pinto & Wilson 1990), the current research explores the serial murder phenomenon in Australia using data collected as part of the Institute’s National Homicide Monitoring Program (NHMP). Results show that between July 1989 and June 2006, there were 11 groupings of serial murders identified in the NHMP, committed...

The current work explored law enforcement officers’ racial bias in decisions to shoot criminal suspects as well as their self-reported beliefs about Black versus White suspects. In addition, this work examined what factors contribute to officers’ racial biases and the likelihood of having these biases eliminated. Examination of the officers’ explicit attitudes toward Black people and their beli...

... Rarely has a change in the environment affected society as dramatically as the Internet. ... Further, the Internet environment is particularly conducive to the creation and enforcement of customary law. ... B. The Commission's Response to the Internet Environment: Substance, Enforcement, Mechanisms for Change, and Methods of Change ... The law was adapted to the changing environment of the ...

The production of desirable (good) outputs is frequently accompanied by unintended production of undesirable (bad) outputs. If two or more of these undesirable outputs are produced as byproducts, one may ask: ‘Which bad is worst?’ By worst we mean which bad inhibits the production of desirable outputs the most if it is regulated. We develop a model based on Leif Johansen’s capacity framework by...