Background: Neuroticism is one of the serious mental health problems of people. No study has been conducted on the impact of identity issues in the treatment of neurotic people. Objectives: This study aims to formulate, design, and investigate the effect of identity-based psychodrama educational program on identity styles and neuroticism. Materials & Methods: This research was a quasi-experim...

We apply a PARADISE-style evaluation to a human-human dialogue corpus that was collected to support the design of a spoken dialogue system for library transactions. The book request dialogue task we investigate is informational in nature: a book request is considered successful if the librarian is able to identify a specific book for the patron. PARADISE assumes that user satisfaction can be mo...

The study sets out to explore the factors that influence the evaluation of information and the judgments made in the process of finding useful information in web search contexts. Based on a diary study of two assigned tasks to search on Google and Google Scholar, factor analysis identified the core constructs of content, relevance, scope and style, as well as, informational and system ‘ease of ...

The paper attempts to provide a conceptual basis for allusions to information processing in discussions about cognition. It de nes the notions of informational medium as a subsystem within a larger dynamical system, the notions of information processing and information management operations, and the notion of informational network a network of informational media. It suggest that situated cogni...

In this paper we propose a formal framework to model rational agents We distinguish four levels where aspects of agency are situated viz the informational action motiva tional and social level On these levels we consider concepts like knowledge and belief of agents opportunities for and results of actions that they may perform preferences goals intentions and commitments and speech acts The lan...

Leverage is a highly scalable “big data” platform for acquiring granular data based on a user’s interaction with any digital application. Whether the virtual experience of the application is an adaptive learning program, a game, a simulation, or an informational web site, Leverage applies the power and scale of cloud computing to create meaning from user data via high-resolution data capture, a...

One of the most persistent myths in the investment industry is that it makes sense to use an index strategy in efficient markets, for instance with large-capitalization stocks, but to use an active strategy in inefficient segments. It’s important to note that the term inefficient is often used to refer to informational inefficiencies. But investors must also consider the full spectrum of costs ...

R ecent literature models leadership as a process of communication in which leaders' rhetorical signals facilitate followers' coordination. While some studies have explored the effects of leadership in experimental settings, there remains a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of informational tools in real political environments. Using quantitative text analysis of federal and sub-n...

Recent literature models leadership as the process of communication where the rhetorical signals of leaders facilitate followers’ coordination. While studies exist that explored the effects of leadership in experimental settings, there remains a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of informational tools in real political environments. Using quantitative text analysis of federal and ...

In this paper we propose a formal framework to model rational agents. We distinguish four levels where aspects of agency are situated, viz. the informational, action, motiva-tional and social level. On these levels we consider concepts like knowledge and belief of agents, opportunities for, and results of actions that they may perform, preferences, goals, intentions and commitments, and speech ...