From this, we can show thataband –abhave opposite signs and therefore that a positive times a negative is a negative. Using the fact multiplication is commutative, a negative times a positive is also negative. Similarly, we can prove that a negative times a negative is a positive. a+ (...
After 30 years, their mortality rises additionally four times higher than the control group. Discussion and conclusion Using datasets for Japan's Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for literature, this study shows that receiving a prize has both positive and negative effects on longevity. We find from the...
in the real, physical world a negative times a negative is a positive. Let’s look at a company’s accounting books. The numbers represent real things, people with accounts and money that these people are paying or receiving. The products are cash flows in and out of the company ...
Using a combination of econometric analysis and experimental methods, we unify these perspectives to delineate contexts under which negative publicity about a product will have positive versus negative effects. Specifically, we argue that negative publicity can increase purchase likelihood and sales by ...
positive sentences. Although the percent signal change in the left DLPFC increased in the positive RST condition, the difference in activation was not significant from the neutral RST. The top offigure 4describes response times and recognition accuracy in the positive and neutral RSTs. Here also,...
Finding positive meaning in past negative memories is associated with enhanced mental health. Yet it remains unclear whether it leads to updates in the memory representation itself. Since memory can be labile after retrieval, this leaves the potential fo
PURPOSE:To reduce the number of components, and to decrease its cost by turning ON and OFF a single transistor at the times of outputting of positive and negative voltages, and selectively switching to output it. CONSTITUTION:A positive/negative voltage output switching circuit is connected to the...
Economic contractions induce avoidance motivation and affect negative economic sentiment, but leave approach motivation and positive economic sentiment unaffected. In contrast, economic expansions induce approach motivation and positive economic sentiment, but do not affect avoidance motivation or negative ...
epidermidisshowed a similar trend of Gram positive bacteria being more resistant to CAP treatment. However, when grown in co-culture, Gram negativeP. aeruginosawas more resistant to CAP overall than as a mono-species biofilm. Emission spectra indicated OH and O, capable of structural cell wall ...
Irrespective of phylogenetic position, Gram-positive bacteria induced much more IL-12 (nine times more on average) and IFN-gamma (seven times), more TNF (three times), and slightly more IL-1beta (1.5 times) than did Gram-negatives, which instead induced more IL-6 (1.5 times), IL-8 (...