Background and Objectives: Extra-marital affairs as one of the covert social problems are among issues with a wide range of disastrous consequences for family and social institutions. Therefore, determining the factors associated with the tendency toward such relationships is of great importance. We aimed to study the tendency toward extra-marital affairs and some related factors among married ...

SID Symposium Digest of Technical PapersVolume 52, Issue S1 p. 493-493 Poster Session: P-4: Display ApplicationFree to Read P-4.5: Novel Polarizer for Extra Large Size TFT-LCD Xiaoguang Yang, Yang Development Department, BOE WH, Dongxihu District, Wuhan City, ChinaSearch more papers by this authorYang Hu, Hu authorWei Zhang, Wei Zhang authorXia Shi, Xia Shi authorXiaoyu Huang, Xiaoyu Huang auth...

After the bioterrorism-anthrax attacks of 2001, public health officials were tasked with planning population-wide medicine dispensing. This planning started with assumptions and then evaluations of seasonal immunization clinics. Research on the 2009 H1N1 pandemic-vaccination campaign showed that an adequately prepared public health system could have prevented over 16% of flu-associated hospital...

BACKGROUND To study the differences in ophthalmology resident training between China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). METHODS Training programs were selected from among the largest and best-known teaching hospitals. Ophthalmology residents were sent an anonymous 48-item questionnaire by mail. Work satisfaction, time allocation between training activities and volume of ...

Whenever we encounter a research finding based on the interpretation of a p value from a statistical test, whether we realise it or not, we are discussing the result of a formal hypothesis test. This is true irrespective of whether the test involves comparisons of means, Odds Ratios (ORs), regression results or other types of statistical tests. As readers of research, it is important to underst...

In this paper we show another representations of extra-special 2-groups. Based on this new representation, we infer a M matrix which obeys the extra-special 2-groups algebra relations. We also derive a unitary R̆(θ, φ)matrix from theM using the Yang-Baxterization process. A Hamiltonian for the two qubits is constructed from the unitary R̆(θ, φ) matrix. In this way, we study the Berry phase and en...

SUMMARY This issue contains papers dealing with a variety of linear and nonlinear matrix equations arising in systems and control theory, model reduction, and in various other areas of applied mathematics, economics, engineering, and the sciences. Special emphasis is given to the numerical treatment of large-scale problems. This special issue of Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications is dev...

We define the reduced horseshoe resolution and the notion of conjoined pairs of ideals in order to study the minimal graded free resolution of a class of p-Borel ideals and recover Pardue’s regularity formula for them. It will follow from our technique that the graded betti numbers of these ideals do not depend on the characteristic of the base field k.