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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53474#.VMX8BizQrzE Author(s)    Yaozhong Liu , Junjie Huang *   Affiliation(s) School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China . ABSTRACT The approach/inhibition theory of power suggested that power conduced to more reward-related behavior, while powerless individual had more inhibited behavior. In this study, participants were told to take part in the dictator game and the ultimatum game, which respectively made them feel powerful or powerless. In the meanwhile, ERPs (Event-Related Potentials) was also adopted in the experiment. After comparing the behavioral and potential differences with those two power condition, the study found that people felt more powerful and allocated less interests to the counterparts when they played the dictator game than that in the ultimatum game. Four types of ERP component were found in this study: P2, N...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53018#.VLR7L8nQrzE Author(s)    Barinaadaa Thaddeus Lebele-Alawa , Vining Jo-Appah Affiliation(s) Department of Mechanical Engineering, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria . ABSTRACT This paper discusses the thermodynamic analysis of a gas turbine power plant located in the equatorial rainforest of southern Nigeria. Steady state monitoring and direct collection of data from the Mk IV Speedtronics system and log books in the control room was performed. The variation of operating conditions (ambient temperature, compressor discharge temperature, turbine inlet temperature, exhaust temperature and fuel mass flow rate) on the performance of gas turbine (thermal efficiency, net power output, heat rate, specific fuel consumption and compressor work) were investigated using various thermodynamic relations and equations. T...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52556#.VJtsmcCAM4 Author(s) Naoko Kumagai 1,2* , Kohei Akazawa 3 , Hiromi Kataoka 1 , Yutaka Hatakeyama 1 , Yoshiyasu Okuhara 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Center of Medical Information Science, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan . 2 Integrated Center for Advanced Medical Technologies, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, Kochi, Japan . 3 Department of Medical Informatics, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Niigata, Japan . ABSTRACT Binary logistic regression models are commonly used to assess the association between outcomes and covariates. Many covariates are inherently continuous, and have a variety of ...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=51064#.VFMCZGfHRK0 Author(s) K. K. Islam 1 , Hyakumura Kimihiko 2* , Masakazu Tani 3 , Max Krott 4 , Noriko Sato 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Forest Policy Laboratory, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashi, Fukuoka, Japan . 2 Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashi, Fukuoka, Japan . 3 Faculty of Design, Kyushu University, Shiobaru, Minami, Fukuoka, Japan . 4 Chair of Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Georg-August University Gottingen, Buesgenweg 3, Germany . ABSTRACT Decentralize in forest management policies towards more people-oriented approaches have become major policy trends in many of the world’s d...