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The purpose of this study was to explore Taiwanese children\'s production and perception of the speech act of threatening. Childrens linguistic forms of uttering threats, how they produce and perceive threats in different ages were investigated. Moreover, four selected cartoon settings (assertion, insult, refusal and threat) that may provoke children to issue a threat were examined. Children\'s understanding of the appropriateness of uttering ...

Investigation of the links between stress and physical health is a continuing area of research, though many facets of the stress-health relationship remain unexplored, particularly in research investigating the role of chronic psychological stressors to health, such as low SES. Research has focused on assessing stress due to lower SES with more encompassing, objective measures such as income or occupation, however, this approach fails to accou...

Seit dem 17. Jahrhundert gibt es Bestrebungenchinesische Klassiker auf christliches oderbiblisches Gedankengut hin zu untersuchen. Damals wares eine spezielle Gruppe der Jesuiten, diesogenannten Figuristen, die eine christlicheInterpretationslinie verfochten. Doch auch in neuererZeit weckt dieses höchst interessante Thema denForschungswillen verschiedenster Menschen. Könntendie alten Chinesen an den biblischen Gott geglaubthaben? Hat dieser si...

In the field of Applied Linguistics, there are lively and critical discussions about the impact of the spread of English in the world. It is not clear, however, to what extent these discussions are being taken up by native English speakers who are hired to teach English as a Foreign Language primarily on the basis of their native speakership. This M.A. thesis study addresses this gap. The context for the study is the Japan Exchange and Teachin...

The book presents a first systematic approach for the cross layer design in wireless sensor networks, where the optimizations for energy efficiency and application QoS are required. A reference model of the network architecture, Embedded Wireless Interconnect, is firstly concluded from the presented studies, as a potential standardized way of the cross layer design in wireless sensor networks. This architecture is also later extended to large-...

Security and privacy are two indispensable topics within information and communication systems. Both rely heavily on the generation of high quality cryptographic parameters. Some parameters, such as keys, have the intrinsic requirement that they must be chosen at random. Others, such as pseudonyms, have the additional requirement of being system-wide unique. Furthermore, in cases where pseudonyms are generated by users themselves, the privacy ...

This book describes two categories of work, i.e., the finite-difference full-vectorial beam propagation method (FD-FV-BPM) development and microlens design for single-mode fiber (SMF) to laser diode (LD) coupling. Chapter 2 gives a review of the general formula to solve the FV-BPM equation of electric formula by using the FD method. The FD-FV-BPM based eigenmode solver is then successfully employed to investigate the effective index of the fun...

The potential for a substantial impact on the market is attributed to electronic devices based on organic materials. For instance the production of solar cells and light emitting diodes employing conjugated polymers can take advantage of using well established printing methods. Novel materials and concepts are steadily developed in the necessary process of reaching the readiness for marketing. However, also the fundamental mechanisms need to b...

This thesis examines the links developing between the universities and their regions in the globalising knowledge economy as observed in the UK. It examines institutional responses to two realms of policies, namely, higher education policy and regional development policy. The diversifying missions of universities, especially, the 'third stream activities' promoted by the UK government since the late 1990s, are set against the dynamics of the m...

Of the children who survive a disaster, only a small amount will come through the experience entirely unscathed. The majority of the children will show negative consequences, if only for a short amount of time. But for some, the effects of the disaster will continue to adversely impact their daily functioning for an extended period of time. This impact can be seen in symptoms such as increased worry or anxiety, social withdrawal, and difficult...

The literary theory Literature as Cultural Ecology implies the notion that literature, in imaginatively bringing together various discourses, may release new potential for the extra-textual, cultural world. Why and in what way do the postmodern American novels E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel and T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain act like ecological forces within their culture? They serve as metaphorical cultural ecosystems. The cultural ecolo...

This book evaluates whether Catholics are swing voters, how their voting behavior has changed from 1992 to 2004, and what issues are influencing their voting behavior. Despite much discussion by the U.S. media about the Catholic swing vote, Lori Gula Wright finds that Catholics are not swing voters and that their voting patterns are more similar to the general electorate than ever before. Although religious, class and cultural issues have sig...

Design and Implementation of a Support Tool for Creating Multi-Modal User Assistance/Software Ergonomics means to develop a new method for technical writers which enables them to write nonlinear text, independent of a given structure. The information system IBM Corebank Information Center is an example for linear text structure. In a reverse engineering process the Corebank Information Center is analysed to see the problem in a linear text str...

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Research relating salivary cortisol levels withinternalizing and externalizing behavior problems inyouth has yielded inconsistent results, likely due tothe high day-to-day variation in stress regulation.Understanding stability in this changing system mayrequire an analytical strategy that separatesvariance in cortisol levels attributable to trait- or"basal" versus state- or "situationally-specific"sources. Early morning saliva samples were obt...

This study aimed to investigate how principals in Stockholm as recruiters talked about the recruitment process and ethnic diversity and how these statements could affect the possibilities of a Romany acquiring a Student Aid position within the school in question. The statements are interpreted through a discursive perspective inspired by Foucault and Laclau & Mouffe with a special focus on the power aspect and its consequences in terms of incl...

One of the great challenges facing the international oil and gas industry in the near future is how it will cope with the financial and environmental issues associated with the decommissioning of its oil and gas infrastructures. And in these days where transparency is called for in every aspect of governments' activities relating to their management of public assets this book is perhaps timely in that it addresses the decommissioning problem f...

Although it is widely believed that high quality judgements and operational readiness involve experiential as well as analytical processing, field studies are rare in decision research. A series of empirical studies were therefore directed at studying the underlying affective and cognitive processes in risk, feelings, and operational readiness within a military setting. Three different projects are reported, and altogether 8 different military...

Collisions between a bird and an aircraft, also known as a bird-strike event, are very common and dangerous.In order to predict the damage of the components of a turbine fan blade in a bird-strike, it is necessary to create an appropriate model for the blade and the bird. Several simulations were carried out using the Lagrange equations to simulate this impact. This work presents alternative standard practices for the modeling of bird-strike e...