against LES for a range of different cases, including a dry convective boundary layer as well as steady-state marine and transient continental shallow cumulus, reveals a data-collapse of the newly-scaled variance, for all hours and all cases in the top half of the mixed layer. The corresponding vertical

several welldefined partial orders and dominance relations defined over the LS family. These include the first- and second-order stochastic dominances, the mean-variance rule, and a newly defined location-scale dominance.

to study several well-defined partial orders and dominance relations defined over the LS family. These include the first-, second- order stochastic dominance, the mean-variance rule, and a newly defined location-scale dominance. © 2005 Wing-Keung Wong and Chenghu Ma. This research is initiated during Ma

properties of a newly developed scale, the Life Regrets Scale. One hundred and nineteen mature adults between the ages of 39 and 76 completed the Life Regrets Scale. To check the validity of the life regrets scale, participants completed scales assessing the following constructs: life satisfaction, decision

A firm has to decide when to scrap its technology and adopt a new one chosen among a possibly increasing range over time when technological process is uncertain. Under constant return to scale, optimally the firm implements the best invented technology that may not be the latest. The gap between

sheltered sample (N = 113). An exploratory factor analysis (principal-axis fac-toring with varimax rotation) was conducted on 24 items of the newly devel-oped Domestic Violence–Related Financial Issues Scale. Preliminary results supported five extracted factors, which accounted for approximately 53

Abstract: Soon (2005) showed that the variable total solar irradiance (TSI) could explain, rather surprisingly, well over 75 % of the variance for the decadally smoothed Arctic-wide surface air temperature over the past 130 years. The present paper provides additional empirical evidence

A newly available Consolidated Data Set (CDS) from the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Weather Central in Monterey, California is utilized to investigate large scale energy fluxes at the sea-air interface and global sea surface temperature fluctuations. Sea surface temperature data from January

rater variance. Collectively, four characteristics of teachers (perceived barriers to student learning, sense of their 'typical' student's level of SEC, anticipation of SEL program implementation challenges, and intentions to fully implement a newly adopted SEL program) accounted for bias

reflects full dependencies among all the subtasks. Then, the expected execution time under failures of the DAG is derived based on stochastic analysis. Unlike existing models, this newly proposed performance model provides both the variance and distribution. It is practical and can be put to real use