Social and material models consider hyperconsumption to be an unsustainable practice of consumer behavior that is responsible for the considerable damage inflicted upon planet. The primary objective this research study was develop validate a novel measurement scale assess (HB) from consumer’s point view. Based on literature theory, HB developed validated over three studies. first consisted item...

This article is a philosopher's expanded review of two recent books on neurophysiology: Rodolfo Llinás's I of the Vortex and György Buszáki's Rhythms of the Brain. Researchers such as these are converging on a view of consciousness as originating in motility and as inherently temporal due to the brainwave oscillations that underlay it. Most current discussions of consciousness include implicit ...

“O morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug,” wrote Franz Kafka in The Metamorphosis. “He lay on his armorhard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely...

As a community, we (programmers, compiler writers, hardware architects, etc.) often take folklore, e.g. claims in programming guides, for granted. Inspired by Descartes’ methodic doubt, i.e. challenging the truth of one’s beliefs, we question this folklore. Thus, we have developed a tool suite to systematically test the memory ordering behaviour of multiand manycore chips and compared our obser...

Both, the role concept and aspect-oriented programming are techniques which permit a flexible adaptation of object-oriented constructs and therefore can be used to adjust existing software to new challenges. While the former one is already well known in the object-oriented world, the latter was only recently introduced. Currently, both techniques co-exist without affecting each other and theref...

objective: the aim of our study was to investigate the effect of coping strategies, personality trait and social support as the main social and psychological factors on infertility stress. materials and methods: this study was conducted on 201 infertile iranian women referred to the vali-e-asr reproductive health research center, and completed the following questionnaires: the fertility problem...