The Assessment of Qualitative and Structural Dimensions of Object Representations assessment instrument (AOR; Blatt, Chevron, Quinlan, Schaffer, & Wein, 1992 ) is one measure of parental representations used in the literature that assesses nonconscious processes while minimizing self-presentation biases. However, only 2 studies have considered the latent factor structure, with mixed findings re...

In this paper the development of a new internet information system for analyzing and classifying melanocytic data, is briefly described. This system also has some teaching functions, improves the analyses of datasets based on calculating the values of the TDS (Total Dermatoscopy Score) (Braun-Falco, Stolz, Bilek, Merkle, & Landthaler, 1990; Hippe, Bajcar, Błajdo, Grzymała-Busse, Grzymała-Busse,...

Well-designed medical decision support system (DSS) have been shown to improve health care quality. However, before they can be used in real clinical situations, these systems must be extensively tested, to ensure that they conform to the clinical guidelines (CG) on which they are based. Existing methods cannot be used for the systematic testing of all possible test cases. We describe here a ne...

Several US states are enacting 'right-to-die' laws, in the wake of the Karen Quinlan case. But the way such a law is drafted may cast doubt on a patient's existing common law right to control all aspects of his own treatment; it may give legal sanction to a lower standard of medical care that society at present expects from doctors; and it may lead to conflict between the patient's directive an...

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In this work a new optimized symmetric eight-step embedded predictor-corrector method (EPCM) with minimal phase-lag and algebraic order ten is presented. The method is based on the symmetric multistep method of Quinlan-Tremaine [1], with eight steps and eighth algebraic order and is constructed to solve numerically IVPs with oscillatory solutions. We compare the new method to some recently cons...

This study investigated the role of adaptive and maladaptive personality dimensions associated with selfdefinition and relatedness as measured by the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ; Blatt, D’Afflitti, & Quinlan, 1976) in a sample of 244 young mothers. It was hypothesized that only maladaptive personality dimensions related to self-definition and relatedness (i.e., Self-Critical Perfe...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have proved both a popular and powerful technique for pattern recognition tasks in a number of problem domains. However, the adoption of ANNs in many areas has been impeded, due to their inability to explain how they came to their conclusion, or show in a readily comprehendible form the knowledge they have obtained. This paper presents an algorithm that address...

Recent work on discretization of continuous-valued attributes in learning decision trees has produced some positive results. This paper adopts the idea of discretization of continuous-valued attributes and applies it to instance-based learning (Aha, 1990; Aha, Kibler & Albert, 1991). Our experiments have shown that instance-based learning (IBL) usually performs well in continuous-valued attribu...