This research examines a chronic problem in academic settings – inappropriate copying or misuse of source materials–i.e., plagiarism. We conduct a computer-based writing experiment to examine the effects of psychological and situational characteristics on subjects’ propensity to misappropriate text. Specifically, we examine to what extent such misappropriations may be explained by available tec...

Using 3.3 pb of data collected with the CMD-2 detector in the 720 – 840 MeV c.m. energy range, the branching fraction of the conversion decay ω → πee has been measured: B(ω → πee) = (8.19 ± 0.71± 0.62) · 10. The upper limits for the branching fractions of the following conversion decays have been obtained at the 90% confidence level: B(ρ → πee) < 1.6 · 10, B(ρ → ηee) < 0.7 · 10 and B(ω → ηee) <...

Using a discourse analytic qualitative approach, we investigated the naturally-occurring discourse that arose as part of two kinds of regular course activities, synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated discussions. The messages contributed by members of a graduate course were analyzed for the kind of discourse functions and the kind of politeness strategies they displayed. Results indicat...

I present an Hipparcos color-magnitude diagram (CMD) that is color-coded by transverse velocity v ⊥. This illustrates the connection between the photomet-ric and kinematic properties of various stellar populations in a manner that is particularly suitable to introductory astronomy courses.

Measuring the quality of metadata is only possible by assessing the quality of the underlying schema and the metadata instance. We propose some factors that are measurable automatically for metadata according to the CMD framework, taking into account the variability of schemas that can be defined in this framework. The factors include among others the number of elements, the (re-)use of reusabl...

We have used extensive V , I photometry (down to V = 20.9) of 33615 stars in the direction of the globular cluster M 55 to study the dynamical interaction of this cluster with the tidal fields of the Galaxy. An entire quadrant of the cluster has been covered, out to ' 1.5 times the tidal radius. A CMD down to about 4 magnitudes below the turn-off is presented and analysed. A large population of...

The cross section of the process e+e− → ωπ0 → π0π0γ has been measured in the c.m. energy range 920–1380 MeV with the CMD-2 detector. Its energy dependence is well described by the interference of the ρ(770) and ρ(1450) mesons decaying to ωπ. Upper limits for the cross sections of the direct processes e+e− → π0π0γ, ηπ0γ have been set.

We solve the design spectrum problem for all theta graphs with 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 edges.