Beam commissioning in the KEK Digital Accelerator, which is a small scale induction synchrotron (IS), has been conducted since the middle of 2011. Longitudinal beam motion in the induction synchrotron, utilizing induction cells (IC) for acceleration and confinement, is characterized as barrier bucket acceleration. A tracking code has been developed to understand the longitudinal motion affected...

This study investigated if different response formats (test methods) measure reading comprehension of expository text differently. The study was conducted with 48 semester 6 TESL students at a university in Selangor, Malaysia. These students received an expository passage having descriptive rhetorical structure followed by three response formats, namely, incomplete outline, graphic organizer, a...

In spite of a hundred year long history of scientific research compulsive buying has been a hardly known phenomenon until today. Ambiguous scientific information makes it impossible to classify compulsive buying as a separate mental disorder. Recently many researchers have noticed phenomenological compatibility of compulsive buying with behavioural addictions. Nowadays, there is reasonable grou...

For several years, engineers and typographers have been working on a new generation of fonts. The old bitmap description of a character is giving way to characters defined by their outlines. This new description of a character makes a font independent of the size of the desired bitmap character. This in turn makes the font independent of the resolution of the hardware which will be used to rend...