Publications

Understanding Attitudes and Predicting Social Behavior

Core text in attitude courses. Explains theory and reasoned action model and then applies the model to various cases.

Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, called Swin Transformer, that capably serves as a general-purpose backbone for computer vision. Challenges in adapting Transformer ...

Educational research : planning, conducting, and evaluatingquantitative and qualitative research

A practical, step-by-step core research text that balances coverage of qualitative and quantitative methods The clear and practical writing of Educational Research: Planning, Co...

Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks

Convolutional neural networks are built upon the convolution operation, which extracts informative features by fusing spatial and channel-wise information together within local ...

Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

There are two broad intellectual streams in the description and explanation of social action. One, characteristic of the work of most sociologists, sees the actor as socialized ...

Two new Later Stone Age sites from the Final Pleistocene in the Falémé Valley, eastern Senegal

Kenya one of the African countries has pledged to reduce neonatal death as per the 2030 World Health Organization target. Providing high-quality newborn care is critical in mini...

Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow

The Special Issue "Numerical Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow 2022" contains scientific articles on experiments and simulations of heat transfer in compressible and incompressible f...

A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of...

Advances In Experimental Social Psychology

Qualitative evaluation and research methods

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN THE USE OF QUALITATIVE METHODS The Nature of Qualitative Inquiry Strategic Themes in Qualitative Methods Variety in Qualitative Inquiry Theoretica...

<i>Ab initio</i>molecular-dynamics simulation of the liquid-metal–amorphous-semiconductor transition in germanium

We present ab initio quantum-mechanical molecular-dynamics simulations of the liquid-metal--amorphous-semiconductor transition in Ge. Our simulations are based on (a) finite-tem...

Atoms, molecules, solids, and surfaces: Applications of the generalized gradient approximation for exchange and correlation

Generalized gradient approximations (GGA’s) seek to improve upon the accuracy of the local-spin-density (LSD) approximation in electronic-structure calculations. Perdew and Wang...