Introduction: Self-fulfilling prophecy is any held belief or expectation that leads to behavior that ultimately proves that belief or expectation is true.Consciousness, belief, ideals, imagination, prejudice, values, whatever term one chooses to use, enter essentially and constitutively becoming a reality studied in the social sciences.Imagined bec

In October 2010, the NCSU Libraries debuted its first public Default touchscreen information kiosk, designed to provide on-demand access to useful and commonly consulted real-time displays of library information.This article presents a description of the hardware and software development process, as well as the rationale behind a variety of design

New indices, calculated on data from the widely used Dot Probe Task, were porta abito recently proposed to capture variability in biased attention allocation.We observed that it remains unclear which data pattern is meant to be indicative of dynamic bias and thus to be captured by these indices.Moreover, we hypothesized that the new indices are sen

The electrochemical micromanufacturing process, as a key micromanufacturing technology, plays an important role in diverse industries.In this paper, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is employed as a mask in the electrochemical micromanufacture of microstructures because of its chemical resistance, low cost, flexibility, and high molding capability.A new

This study used a contingent choice method to determine the economic value of improving various ecosystem services (ESs) of the Blue Network of Greater Montreal (Quebec, Canada).Three real projects were used and the evaluation focused on six ESs that are related to freshwater aquatic ecosystems: biodiversity, water quality, carbon sequestration, re