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Gender differences in child/adolescent personality traits: Slovenes and Russians compared #

The present study compared gender differences in parental perceptions of child personality trait expression across different age groups in Slovenia and Russia. The patterns of gender differences in adolescents were further explored using parent and self-rating methods of assessment. Employing the Inventory of Child Individual Differences (Halverson et al., 2003) reports on large samples of children/ adolescents (2 to 15 years) in both countries were obtained. Gender differences were small and similar across countries, and their patterns were closer to each other for the same data source across countries than they were for the two sources of information within the country. The parents in both countries concurred in rating daughters as somewhat more achievement orientated, compliant, considerate, and organized, whereas sons were assessed as slightly more active, antagonistic, and distractible. At the higher-order trait level, girls were perceived to be more conscientious and agreeable relative to the boys, especially from middle childhood onwards. Regarding self-reports, adolescent girls also scored significantly higher on Considerate and Positive Emotions scales than boys, while the former reported on higher agreeableness relative to the latter in Slovenia only. Gender differences were evident even in parental assessments of the youngest group but they did not systematically increase over children's age.
Schumpeterian Growth, Trade, and Dynamic Comparative Advantage

We study the effects of trade on economic growth in a Schumpeterian framework. The model excludes scale effects and technology transfer, the two usual channels in the literature through which trade affects growth, leaving only comparative advantage. Comparative advantage and the trading pattern are determined endogenously. Endogeneity of production and trading patterns leads to results quite different from those found in most of the related literature. Trade need not increase initial output of either country because of an externality absent from static models. Irrespective of what happens to initial output, trade may increase the balanced growth rate but also may decrease it because of a trade-off between productive efficiency and R&D efficiency. Our model has tractable transition dynamics, which we describe completely. We show that trade leads to a stable world income distribution in some cases, but in other cases leads to an unstable and perhaps even degenerate distribution. In some cases, trade's effect on a country's growth rate is the same as if that country had adopted its trading partner's R&D technology, even though no technology transfer ever occurs.
What Can Performance Information Do to Legislators? A Budget Decision Experiment with Legislators

Existing studies on the influence of performance information on budgeting decisions are limited and have produced contradictory findings. This paper argues that most previous work has somewhat problematically focused on self-reported use of performance information rather than on the legislative context into which performance information is introduced. This study offers a framework that links performance information to legislators’ budgeting decisions. I argue that the impact will differ depending on whether performance information is reflected in the budget proposal, whether the allocation issue concerns a politically difficult value tradeoff for the decision-maker, and whether the implications of the performance information fall into a receptive partisan mind. This paper studies these aspects by manipulating the first two of these factors in an experimental setting involving budgetary decision-making by 57 actual legislators. The control groups consist of 65 undergraduate students. The results show that the introduction of performance information into the legislators’ deliberation process leads to stronger deviations from the status quo allocation. I argue that this difference occurs because performance information highlights more clearly the expected consequences of budgetary changes and allows for more pronounced reactions. This paper concludes that more informed decisions based on good performance budgets might also create a situation in which it is more difficult for legislators to compromise because individual positions become more polarized.
Formation of Carbon Nanofibers

Recently 3-1 50-nm-diameter carbon fibers have been discovered which appear to grow spontaneously by deposition from carbon vapor. It is proposed that these structures may be giant fullerenes which have grown by direct insertion into the graphitic network of smaller carbon species (atoms, ‘linear” chains, monocyclic rings, or even smaller fullerenes) accreted from the vapor phase.
Sustainability and Conserved Energy Value of Heritage Buildings

Conservation and sustainability have long shared fundamental goals. Heritage buildings are basically sustainable and will continue to be if their sound construction and superior materials are conserved properly. Despite this fact, heritage buildings have gained a reputation for being inefficient and therefore unsustainable in the face of modern, energy-efficient structures. As a result, models which are measured embodied energy arose to advocate the retention of heritage structures over new constructions. The initial need to measure energy capital in buildings started due to rising needs to save energy and address global sustainability goals. Both responses measure overall energy efficiency of heritage buildings by attempting to account for the "energy capital. " The life cycle assessment/avoided-impacts model is another model that acts as a response to the evolving metrics and currency of sustainability. The Conservation Green Lab has further developed the capabilities of the life cycle assessment/ avoided impacts model in 2012 in its innovative report: “ The Greenest Building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse”. With this aim, the study applies energy software models supported by guidelines laid out by LEED, and are consistent with judicious conservation practice on a case study heritage building in Alexandria. The outcome revealed proves that heritage buildings can be both sustainable and energy efficient while maintaining their historic integrity, when dealt with properly.
Information overload has traditionally been understood as the side effect of “sensation overload”, humans’ deficiency in front of new information and, as a result, diminishing abilities to reflect on the changes in environment. Being treated initially as a specific “city

The 20th century brought some dramatic changes in terms of volume of information and communication and their diversity. The problem of having too little information has been transformed into a problem of having too much information and increasing information flows. This situation created what is known as “information overload”. The paper investigates this phenomenon both at a conceptual and empirical level. We review the relevant academic literature looking at information overload at the individual and organizational levels. There is a general lack of studied treating information overload from the organizational perspective. Hence, this paper aims to fill this gap by focusing on a case study in which we define information overload in the organizational context, and then elaborate on organization-enabled coping structures.
Development and Policies of New Energy Vehicles in China

At present, the issue of how to rapidly develop and popularize new energy vehicles has sparked some hot discussion in Chinese automobile market. The policies promoting the development of new energy vehicles have become the focus concerned by all related parties. This paper introduces the development background and the development status quo of new energy vehicles in China, analyses the current promoting policies and discusses the trend of these policies in future. We deem that the government role, the technological route selection and the system of subsidies and financial funds for private consumption will decide the prospect of new energy vehicle in China.
Relationship between internal audit factors and corporate governance

How to cite this paper: Drogalas, G. , Anagnostopoulou, E. , Koutoupis, A. , & Pazarskis, M. (2018). Relationship between internal audit factors and corporate governance. Journal of Governance & Regulation, 7(3), 13-17. http://doi.org/10.22495/jgr_v7_i3_p2 Copyright © 2018 The Authors This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b
Latent growth curve modeling of psychological well-being trajectories

This paper proposes modeling trajectories of psychological well-being using latent growth curve models (LGCMs). The psychometric scale of the General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12) is considered. Data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), from years 2003 to 2006 are used. In 1991 Graetz proposed the GHQ-12 as a multidimensional scale, containing three distinct dimensions: anxiety and depression, social dysfunction and loss of confidence. Using such scale, this paper compares a second-order LGCM for the trajectories of a latent factor (measured by these three dimensions) with a LGCM for the trajectories of an overall sum score. Conditional LGCMs are then fitted; sex, age group and perceived health status are considered as the explanatory variables of the growth trajectories. Results show that the model which considers the three dimensions of subjective well-being has a larger explaining capability than the one utilizing the subjective well-being score.
Information Technologies in Quality Management Systems of Meat Product Chains

At the beginning of the 21st century, the question of food safety is playing an accentuated role in the meat product industry. Important issues within this topic are the risk of bioterrorism, impurities in the food chain, and the ascendancy of consumer needs. The solutions to these problems are the introduction of modern quality assurance systems, product identification, and traceability. This chapter reviews the possibilities of IT support for these systems, as well as the potential advantages and their incidental costs. Within the tight frame of this paper – omitting the descriptions of technologies – we discuss the most important criteria of systems which may be able to solve today’s meat industry problems.
High-energy, shock-front-assisted resonant radiation in the normal dispersion regime

We present a simple yet effective theory that predicts the existence of resonant radiation bands in the deep normal group-velocity dispersion region of a medium, even in the absence of a zero-group-velocity dispersion point. This radiation is evident when the medium is pumped with high-energy ultrashort pulses, and it is driven by the interplay between the Kerr and the shock terms in the nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Accurate experiments performed in bulk silica fully support the theoretical phase-matching condition found by our theory.
Simulation of a dipeptide Boc-Ile-Ile-NHMe as a drug carrier

Reverse micelles are discrete nanoscale particles composed of a water core surrounded by surfactant. In this current study the the self assembling properties of the dipeptide Boc-Ile-Ile-NHMe in chloroform to form a stable micelle at various temperatures ranging from 200 to 350 Kelvin has been analysed using insilico methods. The computational analysis was carried out using the steepest descent algorithm, a minimization tool used to study the protein energy level in insilco and it was compared with the thermodynamic parameters determined experimentally. Such reverse micelles finds a vast area of application one of which is drug delivery in nanotechnology. The present dipeptide is shown to carry drugs by insilico methods. Key words: Reverse micelles, tetra peptide, minimization, drug delivery, nanotechnology
Impact of pitch angle fluctuations on airborne lidar sensing ahead along the flight direction

Airborne lidar sensing ahead along the flight direction can serve for notification of clear air turbulence (CAT) and help to prevent injuries or fatal air accidents. The validation of this concept was presented in the framework of the DELICAT (DEmonstration of LIdar based CAT detection) project. However, the difficulties encountered during the processing of DELICAT data indicated the need of a better understanding the observational errors due to geometrical factors. In this paper, we discuss possible error sources imminent to this technique, related to fluctuations of the flight parameters, which may lead to an incorrect estimation of the turbulence intensity. We analyze the variations of backscattered lidar signal caused by fluctuations of the most important ahead sensing flight parameter, the pitch angle. The fluctuation values considered in the paper correspond to the error limits of the compensational gyro-platform used in the civil aviation. Uncompensated pitch angle fluctuations in the presence of aerosol concentration variations can lead to noticeable signal variations that can be mistakenly attributed to wind shear, turbulence or fast evolution of aerosol layer. We formulate the criteria that allow the recognition of signal variations caused by pitch angle fluctuations. Influence of these fluctuations is shown to be stronger for aerosol variations on smaller vertical scales. An example of DELICAT observations indicating a noticeable pitch angle fluctuation impact is presented.
Real Wage Rigidities, Fiscal Policy, and the Stability of Emu in the Transition Phase

EMU started with eleven member countries as scheduled on January 1, 1999. The paper shows that the primacy of politics over economics in this decision could have serious consequences concerning the stability of EMU in the transition phase. Speculative attacks against currencies which are in economic distress due to asymmetric shocks can still happen. A speculative attack as such cannot force a country out of EMU. However, the country concerned might voluntarily decide to leave the system as the costs of staying inside EMU, e.g., due to further rising unemployment, become too large to bear.
Upfront Payments and Listing Decisions

We analyze the listing decisions of a retailer who may ask her suppliers to make upfront payments in order to be listed. We consider a sequential game with upfront payments being negotiated before short-term delivery contracts. We show that the retailer is more likely to use upfront payments the higher her bargaining power and the higher the number of potential suppliers. Upfront payments tend to lower the number of products offered by the retailer when the products are rather close substitutes. However, upfront payments can increase social welfare if they ameliorate inefficient listing decisions implied by short-term contracts only.
Multidecadal North Atlantic sea surface temperature and Atlantic meridional overturning circulation variability in CMIP5 historical simulations

Received 22 May 2013; revised 4 September 2013; accepted 8 September 2013; published 23 October 2013. [1] In this paper, simulated variability of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) and the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and their relationship has been investigated. For the first time, climate models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) provided to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR5) in historical simulations have been used for this purpose. The models show the most energetic variability on the multidecadal timescale band both with respect to the AMO and AMOC, but with a large model spread in both amplitude and frequency. The relationship between the AMO and AMOC in most of the models resembles the delayed advective oscillation proposed for the AMOC on multidecadal timescales. A speed up (slow down) of the AMOC is in favor of generating a warm (cold) phase of the AMO by the anomalous northward (southward) heat transport in the upper ocean, which reversely leads to a weakening (strengthening) of the AMOC through changes in the meridional density gradient after a delayed time of ocean adjustment. This suggests that on multidecadal timescales the AMO and AMOC are related and interact with each other.
INTRODUCTION OF AN AUTHENTICATION METHOD FOR SECURING DATA IN HADOOP SYSTEM

The increasing popularity of cloud basis Hadoop system has led to the improvisation of security. It permits users for storing and processing purpose of huge data at exceptionally low costs however it lacks security measures to carry out satisfactory authentication as well as authorization of users and services. In our work we introduce a token-based approach which provides more secured protection of distributed file system data without burdening authentication functions. The introduced authentication approach protects sensitive distributed file system data against various attacks such as impersonation and replay attacks. The system will make use of hash chain of authentication keys, rather than public key-basis authentication keys which are found in existed file systems. The scheme allows clients to be verified by data node by the use of block access token while thwarting replay as well as impersonation attacks. The proposed system will include an additional layer of security towards the traditional symmetric key Hadoop’s distributed file system authentication process. The technology of elliptic curve cryptography makes authentication keys unidentified, thus protecting them against various attacks. The scheme allows clients to be verified by data node by the use of block access token while thwarting replay as well as impersonation attacks.
Stress – a risk for organizational performance

Representing the central point of many heated theoretical debates, the concept of stress is often used, with meanings that are more or less concrete. It does not belong anymore only to medicine, although it owes a lot to the researchers who focused their efforts for defining the concept, for identifying the determining factors and for drawing up modalities of protection against the negative effects. The seventy years of investigations carried out by the stress researchers offer today plenty of data that help us understand the biological and psychological reality and orientate the individual and organizational actions. In the following lines it will be highlighted the way management identified the information regarding stress and the actions initiated in the view of reducing its destructive effects.
K-band backward diplexer in substrate integrated waveguide technology

The first backward diplexer for K-band substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) operation is presented. The advantage of this compact diplexer is having input and two output port interfaces at the same side of the substrate, which advances the applications of SIWs to more complex feed system assemblies. The diplexer has two bands at 20 and 21 GHz. The bandwidth of each band is 0.4 GHz, which gives 2 and 1.9% bandwidth at lower and higher bands, respectively. The diplexer is designed and analysed with the mode-matching technique, and its performance is verified by comparison with simulated and measured data. The in-band measured return and insertion losses are 14.65 dB/2.75 dB in the lower band and 13 dB/3.05 dB in the upper band.
Role of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors in the pathogenesis of psoriasis

Background : Psoriasis is a chronic immune-inflammatory-mediated disease characterized by epidermal hyperplasia and angiogenesis. Recently, vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFRs, including VEGFR-1, VEGFR-2 and VEGFR-3) were found to be expressed in normal human epidermis and associated with proliferation and migration of keratinocytes. Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the serum level of vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (sVEGFR1 and sVEGFR2) in psoriatic patients Methods: 100 consenting psoriatic patients(males and females) aged 20-60 years who attended out patients clinic of dermatology in Al-Sadr Medical City in AL-Najaf city -Iraq. Psoriasis area and severity index assessment was done for each patient. Blood samples was collected for vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 and receptor 2 measurement . Result: The serum level of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 in addition to receptor 2 were significantly increased in all group of psoriatic patients compared to healthy controls (P<0.001) . Conclusion: The serum level of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1 in addition to receptor 2 had significant role in evolution of psoriatic plaque. Keywords: Serum vascular endothelial growth receptor 1, Serum vascular endothelial growth receptor 2,Psoriasis area and severity index, Psoriasis. List of abbreviation: sVEGFR= serum vascular endothelial growth receptor, PASI = Psoriasis area and severity index, SD=standard deviation , ECs = endothelial cells . ELISA= Enzyme Linked Immuno Linked Sorbant Assay.
Relating eddy correlation sensible heat flux to horizontal sensor separation in the unstable atmospheric surface layer

Measurements of a scalar flux from an extended surface are frequently made with the eddy correlation technique consisting of a vertical velocity sensor and a sensor for the scalar of interest. In many cases the two sensors have to be mounted with a significant horizontal separation to avoid flow interference. Consequently, the technique will underestimate the scalar flux. This paper addresses the issue of flux underestimation due to this separation. A model is developed in the framework of Monin-Obukhov similarity for the spatial covariance of vertical velocity and air temperature in the unstable surface layer. It allows the underestimation of sensible heat flux to be assessed using information on separation orientation relative to wind direction, atmospheric stability, measurement height, and separation distance. The coefficient in the model is evaluated with observations made over a potato field and a clover field. The principles established here should also be applicable to fluxes of scalars other than sensible heat.
Unemployment and Inheritance Linkage: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis

This general equilibrium model seeks to find an explicit relationship between inheritance (and hence, the long run wealth distribution) and the unemployment, generated due to search-friction in the labor market. The existence of unemployment in the equilibrium is guaranteed together with a perfect and an imperfect labor market. The model displays that inheritance affects unemployment positively in micro-level. Amongst the different countries as a whole, a negative relationship between income and unemployment is established. The model ensures that a dynasty does not get stagnated in a particular income class. By simulating the model, we isolate the initial income distribution from the long run income path and question the efficacy of the celebrated trap theory.
The effect of fatigue on reactive strength in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructed individuals.

This study examined the effect of fatigue on reactive strength in six subjects who had undergone surgical repair of the anterior cruciate ligament and returned to full sporting activity. Subjects’ performance in rebound jumps on a force sledge apparatus was analysed before, during and after a maximal fatigue protocol. Flight time, contact time and reactive strength index were measured for each jump. No differences in reactive strength index were observed between legs in the non-fatigued or fatigued state. The data indicated that the subjects may recover reactive strength at a slower rate on the involved leg following maximal exercise. The data also indicates that reactive strength index is a highly suitable variable to examine during maximal SSC fatigue tasks.