The area of our research is the phenomenon of social influence process and the role of person's and group's mentality in the conflict. Conflict implies the existence of at least two sides or parties, majority and minority (by its number, territory, resources and etc.). Until now the role of majority in social influence process was mainly studied considering the existing numerous psychological r...

The use of survival time models with non-proportional hazard functions is introduced as a method of studying age of onset effects in family studies. Statistical methods for investigating non-proportionality of the hazard function are described, and the application of these methods is illustrated using data from a family study of depression to investigate transmission of age of onset between pro...

The purpose of this paper was to review the theoretical underpinnings, major concepts, and methods of the typological approach. It was argued that the typological approach offers a systematic, empirically rigorous and reliable way to synthesize the nomothetic variable-centered approach with the idiographic case-centered approach. Recent advances in cluster analysis validation make it a promisin...

More than 20 different leukocyte or tissue antigens can presently be recognized; they belong to one complex system (HL-A) which is, from the genetic point of view, very similar to the H-2 system in the mouse. Another independent system consisting of two antigens has also been well defined, the Group Five system. The methods of defining these antigens, their tissue distri bution, and complex rel...

Various endoscopic devices have been developed for advanced minimally invasive surgery. We recently applied a new 8K ultra-high-definition television system during laparoscopic treatment of endometriosis. The procedure, which is described in detail, stands as the first reported application of an 8K ultra-high-definition system for laparoscopic gynecologic surgery. Comparison is made between dep...

We present a tool for annotation of se­ mantic inter­sentential discourse rela­ tions on the tectogrammatical layer of the Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). We present the way of helping the annotators by several useful features implemented in the annotation tool, such as a possibility to combine surface and deep syntactic representation of sen­ tences during the annotation, a possibili­ ty to ...

n engl j med 369;22 nejm.org november 28, 2013 2163 and its soluble salts are toxic before conversion to calcium oxalate endogenously remains unclear. Although the depiction of the metabolism of glyoxylate in Figure 1 of the article is correct, the figure does not show the generation of oxalate. The legend states that in hyperoxaluria types 1 and 2, accumulated glyoxylate is converted to oxalat...

Pictures are patterned, 2D surfaces designed to elicit 3Dscenerepresenting experiences from their viewers. In this essay, I argue that philosophers have tended to underestimate the relevance of research in vision science to understanding the nature of pictorial experience. Both the deeply entrenched methodology of virtual psychophysics as well as empirical studies of pictorial space perception ...

Landmarks represent elements of geovirtual 3D environments with outstanding importance for user orientation. Especially, they facilitate navigation and exploration within virtual 3D city models. This paper presents a novel concept for the real-time depiction of landmarks that effectively emphasizes these 3D objects by improving their visibility with respect to their surrounding areas and the cu...

In 2010, there were roughly 219 million cases of malaria reported worldwide resulting in an estimated 660,600 deaths [1]. In contrast, the total number of cases according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States (USA) was only 1691 [2]. Of those, 1688 were cases of imported malaria [2]. This is the highest number of cases reported in U.S. since 1980 [2]. Here...