Background:Addiction is regarded as one of the most important social issues influencing all aspects of people’s lives including personal, social, physical, and mental aspects. Given the increasing rate of the disease and its associated irreparable damages to a patient’s life and the community, this disease and its methods of preventing and treating should especially be taken into consideration....

Supplying sufficient early reflections to audience members is an important prerequisite to good acoustic quality in performing arts spaces. However, the relationship between the geometry of a room and its acoustic efficiency in terms of early energy has rarely been investigated using basic geometrical principles. The present study demonstrates the possibility of predicting the average value of ...

outh America’s most famous forms of martial arts are, arguably, Brazilian jiujitsu (adapted from traditional Japanese Judo by a Brazilian family in the 1920s), and capoeira, an African descendant form that encompasses dance, music, and (mostly) non-contact athletic acrobatics. Both forms can be natively referred to as jogo—game—with the participants being players (jogadores). Capoeira jogadores...

Ki (in Japanese) or Qi (in Chinese) is the key concept in Eastern medicine, Eastern philosophy, as well as in martial arts. We explain the philosophical and psychological background of Ki. We emphasize that the unique aspects of Eastern philosophy are 'non-linearity' and 'holistic' approach. We then present physics aspect of Ki. Our experiments demonstrated that a 'Ki-beam' carries 'entropy' (o...

The aim of this paper is to introduce the notion of commutative pseudo BE-algebras and investigate their properties.We generalize some results proved by A. Walendziak for the case of commutative BE-algebras.We prove that the class of commutative pseudo BE-algebras is equivalent to the class of commutative pseudo BCK-algebras. Based on this result, all results holding for commutative pseudo BCK-...

My voice reveals the hidden power hidden within." A woman of Asian descent appears to be an entertainer, possibly a courtesan or geisha, wearing a pseudo-Chinese dress and hairdo; her hands are curled in front of her in an "Oriental-like" gesture as if she is dancing, and her head is tilted coyly with a cryptic smile (Figure 1). She gives a sexually suggestive expression and gaze but hesitates ...