This paper proposes a framework for the development of models for the assessment of research activities and their impacts. It distinguishes three dimensions: theory, methodology and data, each of which is further characterized by three main building blocks: education, research and innovation (theory); efficiency, effectiveness and impact (methodology); and availability, interoperability and “un...

Submitted to SPSP, 2004 Austin, Texas Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Meeting: January 2004 Poster Abstract Information Perceptions of Achievement: Privileging Innate or Acquired Ability? Malcolm Gladwell’s paper “The Quarterback Problem” describes the naturalness bias or hierarchy in which most of society seems to favor natural talent, whether it is seen in sports, busines...

OBJECTIVE To compare awareness about concept of social wellness in male and female first year medical students. METHODS It was a cross sectional, questionnaire based study conducted from February till December 2010. Responses on aspects of social wellness were rated never, sometimes, mostly and always from lowest to highest (1-4); evaluated as frequency, proportion and percentages by PASW (Pr...

In a series of studies, it is demonstrated that different types of self-affirmation procedures produce different effects. Affirming personally important values (value affirmation) increases self-clarity but not self-esteem. Affirming positive qualities of the self (attribute affirmation) increases self-esteem but not self-clarity (Study 1). As a consequence, attribute affirmation (which increas...

This paper elaborates on ontology-based end-user visual query formulation, particularly for users who otherwise cannot/do not desire to use formal textual query languages to retrieve data due to the lack of technical knowledge and skills. Then, it provides a set of quality attributes and features, primarily elicited via a series of industrial enduser workshops and user studies carried out in th...

While major advances have been made in uncovering the neural processes underlying perceptual representations, our grasp of how the brain gives rise to conceptual knowledge remains relatively poor. Recent work has provided strong evidence that concepts rely, at least in part, on the same sensory and motor neural systems through which they were acquired, but it is still unclear whether the neural...

The cyclic variation in the energy envelope of the speech signal results from the production of speech in syllables. This acoustic property is often identified as a source of information in the perception of syllable attributes, though spectral variation can also provide this information reliably. In the present study of the relative contributions of the energy and spectral envelopes in speech ...

We propose a method, called PREDIQT, for model based prediction of impact of architecture design changes on system quality. PREDIQT supports simultaneous analysis of several quality attributes and their trade-offs. This paper argues for the feasibility of the PREDIQT method based on a comprehensive industrial case study targeting a system for managing validation of electronic certificates and s...

Polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (PolSAR) image classification is one of the basic methods PolSAR interpretation. Deep learning algorithms, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been widely used in due to their powerful feature capabilities. However, a single neuron CNN cannot represent multiple polarimetric attributes land cover. The capsule network (CapsNet) uses vectors ...