Rodante P.

Hernandez Jr November 13, 2017

11-Pascal

Arts:
ABSTRACT
This article describes a study of personal journal subscriptions of university faculty
teaching in arts and professional programs at an undergraduate liberal arts university.
Based on personal interviews, this study examines subscriptions with regard to reason
for subscription, classification of journal, and importance to the discipline and the faculty
member. Overlap with the holdings of the university library, financing of personal
subscriptions, and style of reading are also investigated. Results from the two groups
are presented separately and compared with the results that were described in part I for
the faculty of science.

Agriculture:
ABSTRACT
This paper surveys our work on natural products as potential models for defensive
substances against insect and fungal predators. Insecticides and repellents included are
pyrethrins,rotenoids, lipid amides, phorbol esters, cordifolia germacranolides,
nicandrenoids, mammeins,dihydroagarofuran esters, and cembrene diols. The fungal H-
S toxins from Alternaria, and avenacins from oat roots are briefly considered. The
avenacins provide an in-situ defence of oat roots against the destructive `Take-all'
fungus disease.

Humanities:
ABSTRACT
Vroom’s expectancy theory differs from the content theories of Maslow, Alderfer,
Herzberg, and McClelland in that Vroom’s expectancy theory does not provide specific
suggestions on what motivates organization members. Instead, Vroom’s theory
provides a process of cognitive variables that reflects individual differences in work
motivation. From a management standpoint, the expectancy theory has some important
implications for motivating employees. It identifies several important things that can be
done to motivate employees by altering the person’s effort-to-performance expectancy,
performance-to-reward expectancy, and reward valences.

Sports:
ABSTRACT
We investigated the task of predicting the outcomes of sporting events, in particular,
basketballgames. In two experiments, college students predicted the outcomes of a
series of NationalBasketball Association (NBA) games. Following each prediction, the
subject received feedback in the form of the actual outcome of the NBA game. After a
period of initial learning about the relative strengths of the teams, the subjects were
surprisingly successful in their predictions. We examined expert-novice differences by
comparing the published predictions of professional oddsmakers to the predictions of
the experimental subjects. The average predictions by the subjects were approximately
as accurate as the predictions of experts. Finally, we applied a mathematical model,
developed originally as an account of simpler learning experiments, to the subjects’
responses. We found that the course of the subjects’ learning about the teams was well-
described by this model.

Science:
ABSTRACT
A systema :ic study is made of the non-perturbative effects in quantum
chromodynamics. The basic object is the two-point functions of various currents. At
large Euclidean momenta q the non-perturbative contributions induce a series in 0a2/q
2) where ~t is some typical hadronic mass. The terms of this series are shown to be of
two distinct types. The first few of them are connected with vacuum fluctuations of large
size, and can be consistently accounted for within the Wilson operator expansion. On
the other hand, in high orders small-size fluctuations show up and the high-order terms
do not reduce (generally speaking) to the vacuum-to-vacuum matrix elements of local
operators. This signals the breakdown of the operator expansion. The corresponding
critical dimension is found. We propose a Borel improvement of the power series. On
one hand, it makes the two-point functions less sensitive to high-order terms, and on the
other hand, it transforms the standard dispersion/epresentation into a certain integral
representation with exponential weight functions. As a result we obtain a set of the sum
rules for the observable spectral densities which correlate the resonance properties to a
few vacuumto-vacuum matrix elements. As the last bid to specify the sum rules we
estimate the matrix elements involved and elaborate several techniques for this
purpose.

Business:
ABSTRACT
This paper investigates the transmission patterns of stock market movements between
developed and emerging market economies by estimating afour-variable VAR model.
The underlying economic fundamentals and trade links are considered as possible
determinants of differences in transmission patterns. The results of the impulse
response functions and variance decompositions indicate that significant links exist
between the stock markets of the USA and Mexico and weaker links between the
markets of the USA, Argentina, and Brazil. Differences in the patterns of stock market
responses are consistent with differences in trade flows. The response of emerging
markets to a shock to the US market lasts longer than that of a developed market such
as the UK. While no single emerging market can affect the US stock market, the
combined effect of emerging markets on the US stock market is found to be statistically
significant. These findings can be linked to differences in the speed of information
processing and to the institutional structure governing the market. Overall the findings
suggest that the transmission of stock market movements is in accord with underlying
economic fundamentals rather than irrational contagion effects.

ICT:
ABSTRACT
A method which optimizes on global properties of sample recordings is proposed for
thedefinition of and the discrimination between electroencephalogram (EEG) classes.
The sample was drawn from students at the University of Heidelberg from 1974 to 1978
and consists of 15 healthy index cases clinically ascertained as belonging to the low
voltage EEG group. In addition, the three clinically defined groups: diffuse f3 (18 index
cases),borderline cu (12 index cases) and monomorphousa (18 index cases) have
been included in the study, as well as the first degree relatives of the index cases, thus
providing a clinical classification into four groups. The proposed method provides an
automatic andreliable classification algorithm using discriminant and cluster analysis.
The relation between such an automatized classification and clinical classification
schemes is investigated. In particular, the inheritance of the low voltage EEG, the
question on sex differences and the question of a simple Mendelian mechanism had
been examined.

Social Inquiry:
ABSTRACT
Health status, functional status, and social influences were analyzed as risk factors
associated with mortality in 1201 elderly subjects (70-75 years old), living in the center
of Brescia, Northern Italy, followed up for three years. Mortality was positively
associated with degree of impairment in health status, functional status, and mental
status as measured by cognitive function and mood depression. Among social
conditions no relation was found between mortality and living alone, education, or
income, while a significant inverse relationship has been found between mortality and
activities. In defining risk factors of mortality in aged people not only health status and
cognitive function have to be taken into account but also social activities; these latter
may act as protective
Health status, functional status, and social influences were analyzed as risk.
Key Words: functional status, health status, mortality, social status
INTRODUCTION