Two studies are described examining the correlation between selfand culture referenced values at a culture level (study 1) and correlation between selfand culturereferenced values and self-reported behaviour at an individual level (study 2). It is found that values related to individual – group relationships (embeddedness) and expression and experience of affective feelings and emotions (affect...

The main purpose of this paper is to study the exceptional values of meromorphic function and its derivative on annulus. We also give some theorems and corollaries about exceptional values of meromorphic function on the annulus, which are the improvement of the previous results given by Chen and Wu.

The traditional quasi-Newton method for updating the approximate Hessian is based on the change in the gradient of the objective function. This paper describes a new update method that incorporates also the change in the value of the function. The method effectively uses a cubic approximation of the objective function to better approximate its directional second derivative. The cubic approximat...

Let p(n) denote the number of partitions of an integer n. Recently the author has shown that in any arithmetic progression r (mod t), there exist infinitely many N for which p(N) is even, and there are infinitely many M for which p(M) is odd, provided there is at least one such M. Here we construct finite sets of integers Mi for which p(Mi) is odd for an odd number of i. Whereas Euler’s recurre...

The aim of the present study was to establish a useful animal model that simulates humans sensitive to inhaled particulate matter (PM). We have developed a new rat model of acute bronchiolitis (Br) by exposing animals to NiCl2 (Ni) aerosols for five days. Three days following the Ni exposure, the animals developed signs of tachypnea, mucous hypersecretion, and bronchiolar inflammation which see...

There is insufficient information about reference values for pulmonary volumes for Iranian populations. A study of lung function parameters was made on 302 non-smoking healthy Iranian students (152 male and 150 female). Lung function measures correlated strongly with height but not with body mass index. There were significant differences between some of the measured parameters and American Thor...