This is the second paper in a series examining the link between energetics and mechanics of terrestrial locomotion. In this paper, the changes in the kinetic energy of the limbs and body relative to the centre of mass of an animal (EKE, tot) are measured as functions of speed and body size. High-speed films (light or X-ray) of four species of quadrupeds and four species of bipeds running on a t...

Mixed methods evaluation of Schools Intergenerational Dementia Project Teresa Atkinson & Jennifer Bray The Association for Dementia Studies, University of Worcester

This paper aims to investigate mobile banking (MB) usage through the theoretical lens of UTAUT model with its four pillars. The research model will be tested via a hybrid neural networks-based structural equation modeling (SEM-NN) to reveal significant factors. Universal structural modeling (USM) will be then utilized to find the hidden paths and nonlinearity in our research model. To the best ...

In this research miswak leaves, agriculture wastes, available in large quantity in Saudi Arabia, was used as low-cost adsorbent for removing methylene blue (MB) dye. Equilibrium behavior of miswak leaves was investigated by performing batch adsorption experiments. The effects of [MB] 0, pH, contact time and adsorbent dose were evaluated. An alkaline pH (10.6) was favorable to the adsorption of ...

Even though having some credibility in trans-disciplinary research (see e.g., Stehr and von Storch 1995, Bray and von Storch 1999, von Storch 2009, Bray and von Storch 2009 or Stehr and von Storch 2010), we may not have fully grasped the conceptions and arguments of S. Keller. What stuck to us was the complaint that the IPCC, mainly under the influence of Bert Bolin, would have failed to issue ...

In his invited speech at the second international workshop on "Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries" held in conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) [1] in 2002, Tim Bray, founder of Antarcti.ca Systems (http://antarctica.net), demonstrated how little search engine user interfaces have changed their appearance over the last five years. A revisit of Google'sTM or Yaho...

The CCC method was developed initially [1,2] to describe scattering of electrons from one-electron targets. The method made use of Laguerre basis states that are are L functions to discretize the target continuum. The method provided convergent amplitudes for scattering to low–lying discrete states and total–ionization cross– sections. The theory is fully symmetrized since it is based on a symm...