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    • Flexible perovskite based X-ray detectors for dose monitoring in medical imaging applications 

      Gill, Hardeep Singh; Elshahat, Bassem; Kokil, Akshay; Li, Lian; Mosurkal, Ravi; Zygmanski, Piotr; Sajo, Erno; Kumar, Jayant (Elsevier, 2018-06)
      Organometallic halide perovskite materials are attracting considerable interest for high performance photovoltaic and photodetector applications due to their exceptional opto-electronic properties and easy processing ...
    • Explaining Systemic Risk in Money Market Funds 

      Avkiran, Necmi K. (Scientific Research, 2018-06)
      For the first time, this study evaluates the contributions to systemic risk in the context of U.S. institutional prime money market funds (MMFs) from different sources using partial least squares structural equation ...
    • Why Judaism and Islam Prohibit Eating Pork and Consuming Blood as a Food? 

      Brondz, Ilia (Scientific Research, 2018-06)
      To date, many influential religious leaders from both Judaism and Islam have attempted to provide answers to the question of why both these religions prohibit eating pork. The most straightforward answer is that the Lord ...
    • Environment and Philosophy: The Aesthetics and the Natural Environment 

      Tsekos, Christos A.; Petsiou, Thaleia (Scientific Research, 2018-06)
      In this study, after initially identifying the field of Aesthetics and the concept of Aesthetically Remarkable (Beautiful), we are going to analyze the aesthetic categories, which constitute a basic element of Aesthetics, ...
    • Producers’ Preference for Price Instability? 

      Schmitz, Andrew (Scientific Research, 2018-06)
      The debate over whether producers prefer price instability to price stability continues, especially where policies are often endorsed that aim at generating stability. Such policies include the holding of agriculture ...
    • Anger and Contested Place in the Social World 

      TenHouten, Warren D. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-05)
      The root term angr includes in its meaning anger-rage and sadness-grief, which today are recognized as two primary or basic emotions. Anger involves the brain’s “rage system”, an architecture widely represented in the ...
    • Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement with Partial Lower Sternotomy 

      Morimoto, Keisuke; Miyasaka, Shigeto; Shiraya, Suguru; Kobayashi, Futoshi (Scientific Research, 2018-06-15)
      Objectives: Due to recent spread of minimally invasive surgery, the demand for minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) is increasing. We investigate the usefulness of minimally invasive aortic valve replacement ...
    • Characterological Correlates of Selfie Taking Behavior 

      Morrison, Todd G; Morrison, Melanie A; Kiss, Mark J.; Gilliland, Eric (Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-29)
      Few researchers have examined selfie taking behavior. To address this gap, 235 participants (age 18 - 60) completed an online questionnaire assessing a variety of psychological factors, personality traits, and selfie ...
    • Concerns Involving the Self: What Is the Real Target of Anxiety, Regret, or Worry, When Things Do Not Go Right for You? More Evidence from Sweden and the United States 

      Hayase, Kohji (Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-29)
      More than 1000 respondents in Sweden (2013) and the US (2014) were asked to report their subjective opinions and attitudes about situations that caused them regret, concern, worry, and anxiety. US respondents self-identified ...
    • A Qualitative Study on the Outcomes of Social Media Advertising 

      Islam, Shariful; Mahmood, Mohammad Iqbal (Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-29)
      In this modern digitalized world, almost everyone is attached with internet. So there is an opportunity for the advertisers to use the social apps/internet for the purpose of advertising. This study was conducted to check ...
    • A New Framework for Online Business Teaching 

      Nistor, Cristina; Nyer, Prashanth (Scientific Research, 2018-07)
      Recently, business education has experienced an expansion of online education programs. In this paper, we propose a framework to improve the effectiveness of student learning in an online lecture format. In particular, ...
    • A Generalized Bilateral Trading Model 

      Tao, Rongchuan (Scientific Research, 2018-07)
      In the bilateral trading model developed by Myerson [1], an ex post efficient mechanism that satisfies incentive compatibility and individual rationality has been proved to be not existed. This paper is aimed at the ...
    • Teaching Model Reform of Performance Management Course Based on the Theory of Constructivism 

      Cheng, Long (Scientific Research, 2018-07)
      As the core course of human resource management major, performance management course is highly practical. Based on the theory of constructivism, combining with the practical requirements of enterprise performance ...
    • Anger and Contested Place in the Social World 

      TenHouten, Warren D. (Scientific Research, 2018-07)
      The root term angr includes in its meaning anger-rage and sadness-grief, which today are recognized as two primary or basic emotions. Anger involves the brain’s “rage system”, an architecture widely represented in the ...
    • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Demonstrates That Hypnosis Is Conscious and Voluntary 

      Venneri, Annalena; Tikhonoff, Valérie; Facco, Enrico; Lapenta, Antonio M; Albertini, Federica; Mitolo, Micaela; Stabile, Maria Rosaria; Gasparotti, Federica; Finatti, Francesco; Casiglia, Edoardo (Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-07-05)
      Hypnosis is a condition of modified consciousness (monoideism) resulting from a mental representation able to produce psychological and physical effects. The general belief is that hypnosis is conscious and voluntary, ...
    • Study on the Development of Rural E-Commerce against the Backdrop of Rural Revitalization 

      Wang, Qingxiang (Scientific Research Publishing Inc., 2018-07-06)
      Under the trend of “Internet+”, the analysis of the development of rural e-commerce will reveal some of its deficiencies such as a single booster, the lack of standards of the products, the difficulties of building the ...
    • Hellenic Integrative Psychotherapy: A Total Holistic Approach 

      Nestoros, Joannis N. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-07-12)
      An integrative psychotherapy model is described which proposes that the basic “schools” of psychotherapy, that is the psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic/ existential, systemic and biological approaches can be synthesized ...
    • LiFi is a paradigm-shifting 5G technology 

      Haas, Harald (Elsevier, 2018-11)
      In this paper we will first explain what Light-Fidelity (LiFi) is and argue that it is a 5th Generation (5G) technology. Peak transmission speeds of 8 Gbps from a single light source have been demonstrated, and complete ...
    • Population structure, fecundity and morphological characteristics of M. vollenhovenii (Herklots, 1857) on lower volta river basin channel, Ghana 

      Eniade Abiodun, Adeyemi; Odedeyi Dominic, Olabode; Bello-Olusoji A, Oluayo; Adebayo Olabode, Thomas; Agyakwah Seth, Koranteng (African Journal of Biological Sciences, 2019-01-16)
      Population structure, fecundity and morphological characteristics of M. vollenhovenii were studied around Lower Volta River, Ghana subject to dirt of information on this prawn species around the study location. The most ...
    • Comparative cytomorphometry of red blood cells of some fishes 

      Gayatri, Acharya; Prafulla Kumar, Mohanty (African Journal of Biological Sciences, 2019-01-16)
      This study aims to compare the size of the red blood cells of different freshwater fishes to gain knowledge of their activity. In this study, 11 different freshwater fishes of four different order like Siluriformes, ...