A shift occurred in research about adolescents in the general population. Research is moving away from deficits toward a resilience paradigm and understanding trajectories of positive youth development. This shift has been less consistent in research and practice with African American youth. A gap also exists in understanding whether individual youth development dimensions generate potential in...

Companies increasingly face turbulent and dynamic environments characterized by mostly unforeseeable changes. A viable strategy to survive in such environments is to strengthen organizational agility, which denotes the ability to quickly cope with continuous unanticipated change and to take advantage of opportunities in the environment. Serviceoriented architecture (SOA) accompanied by related ...

BACKGROUND Obesity among pregnant women is common, and their offspring are predisposed to obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetes. The circulating metabolites that are related to insulin resistance and are associated with this decreased tissue-specific uptake are unknown. Here, we assessed metabolite profiles in elderly women who were either female offspring from obese mothers (OOM) or offspr...

BACKGROUND Natural adhesion between the levator aponeurosis and the subcutaneous layer in the upper lid is essential for an aesthetically pleasing double eyelid. The study aims to emphasize the outer fascia of orbicularis oculi muscle (OFOOM) as a fixation point on the double eyelid surgery. METHODS The authors examined the detailed anatomy of the anterior lamella microscopically during 28 ca...

We demonstrate, to the best of our knowledge, the first carrier-envelope offset (CEO) frequency stabilization of a GHz femtosecond laser based on opto-optical modulation (OOM) of a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror (SESAM). The 1.05-GHz laser is based on a Yb:CALGO gain crystal and emits sub-100-fs pulses with 2.1-W average power at a center wavelength of 1055 nm. The SESAM plays two key ...

Executive Summary Observable Operator Models (OOM) are statistical tools developed in the field of Machine Learning with the purpose of modelling certain classes of stochastic processes. They have been highly successful, both in terms of efficiency and accuracy of results, compared to the more widely-used Hidden Markov Models (HMM), when used on stationary symbol sequences. For symbol sequences...

This article introduces a formal evaluation methodology for IT investments specifically designed to cope with the needs of port industry. Port industry is a service-oriented industry and, as such, is characterised by the intangible nature of benefits. The goal of this paper is to develop a methodology for the evaluation of container terminal related electronic services that incorporates both st...

Von einem Überwachungssystem zur Begleitung von Personen innerhalb von Gebäuden wird häufig gefordert, sich in die bestehende Anwendungslandschaft eines Unternehmens integrieren zu lassen und vorhandene Anwendungsfunktionalität möglichst wiederzuverwenden. Anwendungslandschaften werden verstärkt in Form dienstorientierter Architekturen strukturiert, weshalb ein integrierbares Überwachungssystem...

As aspect-oriented programming techniques move into mainstream use, it is likely that more software developers will be modeling systems with aspect-oriented features using the Unified Modeling Language. And with the Object Management Group considering revised standards for UML 2.0, it is an appropriate time to consider UML standards for aspect-oriented elements. This paper considers how aspect-...