Graphene has a vast potential for integrated devices, promising to greatly advance the goal of ultimate system miniaturization thanks to the unique combination of its atomic thinness with its praised extraordinary functionalities such as electrical and thermal conduction, optical transparency, plasmonic response, mechanical robustness, and capacity for storing ions, just to name a few. However,...

Learning from examples is a common and powerful approach when mastering the art of programming. In our classroom studies of WebEx and NavEx, students highly praised the systems. However, the broader dissemination of this approach was not very successful due to the lack of content – annotated examples. This paper presents the study results in example-based programming learning by annotating exam...

As a wealth of critical interest has begun to accumulate around it, J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings has been subjected to considerable ill-judged comment. Generally, friend and foe alike have praised and damned these books for relatively trivial reasons, and most of this misplaced comment seems to stem from a failure to appreciate the nature of the underlying schema which g...

This study compared schizophrenic and normal groups on a stimulus generalization (SG) task and, in addition, attempted to explore whether differences in SG among schizophrenics were related to the type of reinforcement applied during acquisition or to diagnostic subtype. 48 chronic poor premorbid schizophrenics and 48 normal controls reached criterion on a size discrimination task under either ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 has been praised and criticized for asserting federal authority to regulate health insurance. We review the history of federalism and insurance regulation and find that HIPAA is less of a departure from traditional federal authority than it is an application of existing tools to meet evolving health policy goals. This inter...

Introduction Depression is highly prevalent and causes a heavy burden in adolescent life. Being praised for prosocial behavior might be preventive factor because both being are protective against depression. However, no study has investigated the association between experiences of depressive symptoms adolescents. Objectives Here, we longitudinal relationship Methods In Tokyo Teen Cohort (TTC), ...

Mixed compensatory systems (some call them “mixed-member proportional systems”), are praised for combining "the best of both worlds.” Yet, we know fairly little about their outcomes in practice. We still lack a genuine model that explains how many compensation seats are needed for the outcome to be proportional. Without this knowledge we will neither be able to estimate how many parties we expe...

The founding master of ‘Dachengquan, Wang Xiang Yhai, who is famous in the North and South, and praised by the martial arts circles of the whole country, has recently moved to Beijing. For the exchange of knowledge and opinions among the practitioners of different martial arts, he has arranged a meeting time every Sunday afternoon from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm, at Dayangyibin Alley, where he acts as ...

The October 2005 issue of the influential National Geographic magazine featured a comprehensive article that included a two-page graphical portrayal of the past 100 years of avian influenza pandemics and outbreaks. Most of this article is available online, but the two-page spread is only available in the hardcopy publication. While the article praised Hong Kong’s excellent efforts to control av...