Some people seem to be able to withstand the ravages of stress better than others can. Why? Because a number of moderator variables can reduce the impact of stress on physical and mental health. To shed light on differences in how well people tolerate stress, we'll look at five key moderator variables: social support, hardiness, optimism, sensation seeking, and autonomic reactivity. As you'll s...

This article examines how consumers' attitudes toward advertisements are affected by their previous exposure to them. The results of our experiment suggest that the effects of exposure on ad attitudes may be moderated by the complexity of the advertisement: evaluations of complex ads become more positive with exposure, while those of simple ads do not. This finding may help explain why previous...

Preprint submitted to Elsevier September 1, 2015 This paper proposes a new model of consensus based on linguistic terms to be implemented in Delphi processes. The model of consensus involves qualitative reasoning techniques and is based on the concept of entropy. The proposed model has the ability to reach consensus automatically without the need for either a moderator or a final interaction am...

The laser fusion rocket, which is expected as a rocket that it replaces one of the chemical propulsions, can be efficiently operated by using a shaped target. The shaped target is made of fusion pellet and the pellet is surrounded by a moderator (propellant). We here examine the applicability of the impact fast ignition scheme to the shaped target. It was found that it is difficult to increase ...

The buyer’s trust in seller in consumer to consumer e-commerce plays a critical role in consumer purchase decisions. Thus, this paper aims at analyzing the relationships between buyer’s trust in seller, price discount, and price premium by using product price as a moderator variable. A trust function for sellers was calculated through a questionnaire, by using the feedback mechanism and by appl...

An In-depth analysis of the INT05 tritium-production—blanket design Is presented. A ternary system of solid silicate breeder, lead neutron multiplier, and graphite moderator is explored primarily from safety and blanket tritium-inventory considerations. Lithiumsilicate (Li2Si03) bleeder systems are studied along 2 with water (H2P/D2O) and Type 316 stainless steel as coolant and structural mater...

With Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP), we see a problem as a collection of different issues, and try to find all issues relevant to the problem. We can therefore manage to achieve an improved separation of concerns in both design, and implementation. The goal of AOP is to decompose a problem into a number of functional components as well as a number of aspects and then composing these componen...

Although not bound to Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) is a paradigm proposal that retains the advantages of OOP and aims at avoiding the tyranny of dominant decomposition. The goal is to achieve an improved separation of concerns in both design, and implementation. Our work concentrates on the aspectual decomposition of concurrent object-oriented systems. We...

Recoil tritium reactions in the aromatic ring were investigated with toluene and benzonitrile in the moderator-free and the C6F6-moderated systems in terms of the intramolecular tritium distribution, the relative tritiation rate, and the isotope effect in toluene. The reactions free from hexafluorobenzene are in essential agreement with non-selective nature shown in hot atom reactions. The addi...

This study examined maladaptive perfectionism (concern over mistakes, doubts about one’s ability to accomplish tasks, and failure to meet high standards) as both a mediator and a moderator between adult attachment (anxiety and avoidance) and depressive mood (depression and hopelessness). Survey data were collected from 310 undergraduates and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) met...