Graphene has a vast potential for integrated devices, promising to greatly advance the goal of ultimate system miniaturization thanks to the unique combination of its atomic thinness with its praised extraordinary functionalities such as electrical and thermal conduction, optical transparency, plasmonic response, mechanical robustness, and capacity for storing ions, just to name a few. However,...

Learning from examples is a common and powerful approach when mastering the art of programming. In our classroom studies of WebEx and NavEx, students highly praised the systems. However, the broader dissemination of this approach was not very successful due to the lack of content – annotated examples. This paper presents the study results in example-based programming learning by annotating exam...

As a wealth of critical interest has begun to accumulate around it, J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings has been subjected to considerable ill-judged comment. Generally, friend and foe alike have praised and damned these books for relatively trivial reasons, and most of this misplaced comment seems to stem from a failure to appreciate the nature of the underlying schema which g...

This study compared schizophrenic and normal groups on a stimulus generalization (SG) task and, in addition, attempted to explore whether differences in SG among schizophrenics were related to the type of reinforcement applied during acquisition or to diagnostic subtype. 48 chronic poor premorbid schizophrenics and 48 normal controls reached criterion on a size discrimination task under either ...

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 has been praised and criticized for asserting federal authority to regulate health insurance. We review the history of federalism and insurance regulation and find that HIPAA is less of a departure from traditional federal authority than it is an application of existing tools to meet evolving health policy goals. This inter...

The murder of Theo van Gogh in 2004 shocked Dutch society. Soon after, debates emerged about the nature of Islam and whether Islam is compatible with ‘Dutch’ democracy and freedoms. There were those among Muslims who praised Mohammed Bouyeri’s actions for being, as he claimed, an expression of true faith, while others condemned the attack as being against the true nature of Islam. Such utteranc...

*Working papers are preliminary drafts from work in progress. They are circulated to obtain comments and criticisms prior to finalisation. Wherever possible we identify the final/authoritative version of what were originally working papers. Abstract Since the late 1970s, NGOs have played an increasingly prominent role in the development sector, widely praised for their strengths as innovative a...

In a classic psychological experiment performed in the late 1960s, animals in one group could stop administered shocks by pressing a lever, whereas those in another group could not stop the shocks despite pressing the lever. Later, when the powerless animals were eventually presented with a working lever, they didn’t bother to push it. The animals had learned to be helpless. Carol S. Dweck wond...

Introduction Depression is highly prevalent and causes a heavy burden in adolescent life. Being praised for prosocial behavior might be preventive factor because both being are protective against depression. However, no study has investigated the association between experiences of depressive symptoms adolescents. Objectives Here, we longitudinal relationship Methods In Tokyo Teen Cohort (TTC), ...

Mixed compensatory systems (some call them “mixed-member proportional systems”), are praised for combining "the best of both worlds.” Yet, we know fairly little about their outcomes in practice. We still lack a genuine model that explains how many compensation seats are needed for the outcome to be proportional. Without this knowledge we will neither be able to estimate how many parties we expe...