Management of dual relationships and confidentiality in social work practice is an essential ethical task for all professionals. Practitioners face special challenges presented by the choice of practice environment and the ...

The Euler function has long been regarded as one of the most basic of the arithmetic functions. More recently, partly driven by the rise in importance of computational number theory, the Carmichael function has drawn an ...

For a positive integer n, we let φ(n) and λ(n) denote the Euler function and the Carmichael function, respectively. We define ξ(n) as the ratio φ(n)/λ(n) and study various arithmetic properties of ξ(n).

In this note, we study those positive integers n which are divisible by the Carmichael function.

We study multiplicative character sums taken on the values of a non-homogeneous Beatty sequence Bα,β = {⌊αn + β⌋ : n = 1,2,3,…}, where α,β ∈ R, and α is irrational. In particular, our bounds imply that for every fixed ε > ...

Let p be a prime and 79 an integer of order t in the multiplicative group modulo p. In this paper, we continue the study of the distribution of Diffie-Hellman triples (V-x, V-y, V-xy) by considering the closely related ...

The article reviews the book "Corn: Chemistry And Technology," 2nd Edition, edited by Pamela J. White and Lawrence A. Johnson.

Reviews the book "The World Sugar Market," by Sergey Gudoshnikov, Lindsay Jolly and Donald Spence.

This work is an annotated survey of 20th century French chamber music written including the bassoon.

Romance novels have traditionally been derided in academic literature and while recent LIS literature has been supportive of romance, previous articles indicated considerable disdain for the genre. Criticism raised in the ...

Nationally, more than two million people are serving time in prison on any given day. Missouri ranks eighth in the nation in terms of imprisonment and has experienced substantial growth in incarceration over the past two ...

Gram-negative soil bacteria (rhizobia) within the Rhizobiaceae phylogenetic family (a-proteobacteria) have the unique ability to infect and establish a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis on the roots of leguminous plants. This ...

Both organic production and the use of biotechnology have increased dramatically over the past decade. This study contributes to existing work on consumer acceptance of these practices and the resulting ...

Based on a large-scale survey, this study employs the contingent valuation method to estimate consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for biotech foods in China and to account for the effects of respondents' characteristics ...

McLean County, Illinois farmers were surveyed in order to explore their perceptions of biotechnology and genetically modified crops, and to analyze the relationships between those perceptions and choices regarding ...

While the strategic management literature suggests that related diversification is superior to unrelated diversification, there is little evidence that acquirers benefit from pursuing related targets. We argue that the ...

Genetically modified (GM) crops have now been grown com- mercially on a substantial scale for ten years. This paper assesses the impact this technology is having on global agricul- ture from both ...

This paper develops empirical models to estimate both interfirm research spillovers and crowding effects in the canola crop research industry. The potential sources of spillover include basic research, human capital/knowledge ...

This paper used a spatial and temporal price equilibrium model to assess the potential impacts of farmers in West and Central Africa adopting Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp). The results ...

Because of Bt corn's efficacy in controlling European corn borer, farmers are required to implement an insect resistance management (IRM) program that constrains each farmer to plant no more than 80% of the farm s corn ...