The effects of preemptive parenting (i.e., a form of preventive parenting that occurs prior to child misbehaviors and is comprised of strategies the parent uses to prevent or avoid undesirable child behaviors) on child ...

fMRI studies have found that brain areas associated with the reward of relationship self-expansion are also the same areas that are associated with the reward of smoking cigarettes (Aron et al., 2005; Ikemoto et al., 2006; ...

Close relationships are integral to who we are; they influence our sense of self (Berscheid, 1994), emotional well-being (Deci et al., 2006), and physical health (Cohen, 2004). However, close relationships are not immune ...

CT imaging procedures have been shown to considerably increase the medical radiation dose to patients, giving rise to cancer. As a result, low dose imaging modalities have gained much attention recently. However, this ...

The simple read/write interface exposed by traditional disk I/O systems isinadequate for low-locality update-intensive workloads because it limits theflexibility of the disk I/O systems in scheduling disk access requests ...

A good storage system provides efficient, flexible, and expressive abstractions that allow for more concise and non-specific code to be written at the application layer. However, because I/O operations can differ dramatically ...