Why Do Parents with Toddlers Store Poisonous Products Safely? by Tinneke M. J. Beirens, Eduard F. van Beeck, Johannes Brug, Paul den Hertog, Hein Raat

“…By identifying correlates of safety behavior in this manner, more insight in factors which influence this behavior is obtained. …”
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Numerical modeling of RC column reinforced by new strategy using fiberglass tape and cloth by Aissa Boumedjane, Saadi Mohamed, Yahiaoui Djarir, noureddine Lahbari

“… This paper presents the results of finite element analysis (FE) to study the axial compression behavior of reinforced concrete columns wrapped with tapes and fiberglass cloths according to different techniques using ABAQUS software. …”
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Deterministic Sudden Changes and Stochastic Fluctuation Effects on Stability and Persistence Dynamics of Two-Predator One-Prey Model by Jawdat Alebraheem, Nasser S. Elazab, Mogtaba Mohammed, Anis Riahi, Ahmed Elmoasry

“…The random noises transfer the dynamical behavior from the equilibrium case to the oscillation case, which describes some unstable environments.…”
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Performance Analysis of a Waste-Gated Turbine for Automotive Engines: An Experimental and Numerical Study by Carla Cordalonga, Silvia Marelli, Vittorio Usai

“…The study then highlights the waste-gate valve behavior considering its different openings. It was found that a more refined model is necessary to accurately define the mass flow rate through the waste-gate valve. …”
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A Comparison of Mean-Based and Quantile Regression Methods for Analyzing Self-Report Dietary Intake Data by Michelle L. Vidoni, Belinda M. Reininger, MinJae Lee

“…Participants in the upper or lower tails of dietary intake data will potentially have the greatest change in their behavior when presented with a health behavior intervention; thus, alternative statistical methods to modeling these relationships are needed to fully describe the impact of the intervention. …”
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Presenting a Prediction Model for CEO Compensation Sensitivity using Meta-heuristic Algorithms (Genetics and Particle Swarm) by Saeed Khaljastani, Habib Piri, Reza Sotoudeh

“…The second model, which includes the cost behavior parameter of changes in sales revenue, achieved the next best results. …”
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MHD Flow with Hall Current and Ion-Slip Effects due to a Stretching Porous Disk by Faiza M. N. El-Fayez

“…The leading order approximations show sinusoidal behavior that is decaying exponentially, as we move away from the disk surface. …”
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Losses and Energy Backflows of the Fundamental Core Mode in Solid Core Micro Structured Optical Fibers by Andrey Pryamikov

“…This work discusses the behavior of transverse energy fluxes of the fundamental core mode of a holey fibers and a photonic band gap fibers when the polarization state of this mode changes. …”
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Modeling the Morning Commute Problem in a Bottleneck Model Based on Personal Perception by Xiao Guo, Huijun Sun

“…This paper studies the travel behavior of travelers who drive from the living area through the highway to the work area during the morning rush hours. …”
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A Simple Distributed RGC Model of MOSFET for Pre-Pinch Off Region by Umesh Kumar, Arun Mirchandani

“…The differential equation describing the small signal behavior of a MOSFET channel is derived. Based on the analogy of the channel to distributed transmission lines, which has been very well established in literature, an entirely new RGC line model of MOSFET is presented. …”
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On a theorem of W. Meyer-König and H. Tietz by İBrahım Çanak, Mehmet Dık, Fılız Dık

“…We prove that if the classical control modulo of the oscillatory behavior of (un) belonging to some class of sequences is a Tauberian condition for L, then convergence or subsequential convergence of (un) out of L is recovered depending on the conditions on the general control modulo of the oscillatory behavior of different order.…”
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Organization of business travel in Russia by E. D. Zotov

“…The paper lists the economic and socio-cultural factors influencing the behavior of business travelers in Russia. The author formulates recommendations for the main directions of business tourism, taking into account the factors of the external and internal environment that affect the behavior of a business traveler. …”
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Intercultural competencies of Polish and Kazakh teachers explored in their Facebook profiles by Adam Jagiełło-Rusiłowski, Zhandarbek Immanchiyev

“…Digital ethnographic research approach was used for capturing teachers’ behavior and artifacts in the fi eld site. Teachers collaboration on a divergent problem and focus discussion afterwards provided further narrative material of refl ective nature. …”
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Research and Application of a Reinforced Concrete Simplified Model by Haipeng Jia, Shuaikang Tian

“…This model represents the postpeak behavior of concrete in compression and the peak behavior in traction. …”
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Development of a Method for Characterizing Joint Stiffness, Deadband, and Hysteresis by G.D. Ferney, S.L. Folkman

“…This article documents the development of a procedure for characterizing the stiffness, deadband, and hysteretic behavior of struts with pinned joints. A test setup utilized procedures recommended by other authors. …”
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Tsallis Holographic Dark Energy with Granda-Oliveros Scale in (n+1)-Dimensional FRW Universe by Ayman A. Aly

“…Our results show that the universe is in an accelerating expansion mode described by phantom-like behavior. We go further and study the state finder operators and the Om diagnostic to understand the behavior of our model. …”
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Some Qualitative Properties of Traveling Wave Fronts of Nonlocal Diffusive Competition-Cooperation Systems of Three Species with Delays by Meiping Yao, Pengzhi Qiao, Yang Wang

“…In order to obtain more information of the asymptotic behavior of such solutions at positive infinity, for the special kernels, we discuss the asymptotic behavior of such solutions of such system without delays, via the stable manifold theorem. …”
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‘No, I do not suffer from it’: the analysis of the manipulation of the subjectivity of the executive woman in the rise of the career by Elem Rabelo Duarte, Shalimar Gallon

“…With a support team to handle their demands, they deny the labyrinths of the trajectory, evidencing the presence of the queen bee phenomenon, and reproduce a behavior that privileges masculinities in organizations.…”
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Nowcasting Mobile Games Ranking Using Web Search Query Data by Yoones A. Sekhavat

“…The purpose of this paper is to study whether the Internet behavior of users correlates with their actual behavior in computer games market. …”
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Weak KAM Solutions of a Discrete-Time Hamilton-Jacobi Equation in a Minimax Framework by Porfirio Toledo

“…The developed techniques allow us to study the behavior of an infinite time game without using discount factors or average actions.…”
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