This work presents psychometric analyses of the Will-to-Live Scale (WTLS) among Portuguese adolescents.Two studies were carried out to establish the psychometric characteristics of the WTLS.Findings Candle of both studies pointed out that the WTLS has satisfactory reliability and validity.Principal component analysis and confirmatory factor analysi
We study a class of games which models the competition among agents to access some service provided by distributed service units and which exhibits congestion and frustration phenomena when service units have limited capacity.We propose a technique, based on the cavity method of statistical physics, to characterize the full spectrum of Nash equilib
This paper examines the religious orientation of public school districts in a geographical region of SHOPSTORM_HIDDEN_PRODUCT the United States known as the Bible Belt.The hypothesis for this study was that public schools located in the Bible Belt would have a sacred religious orientation.If that were true, those public schools would allow religion
Abstract Background Malaria still claims substantial lives of individuals in Tanzania.Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spray (IRS) are used as major malaria vector control tools.These tools are facing great challenges from the rapid escalating insecticide resistance in malaria vector populations.This review presents the informati