Gay men and lesbians must make decisions about disclosure of their sexual orientation. Past research has focused on an individual's overall level of disclosure or on disclosure to a specific subset of individuals. This study used a new measure, the Disclosure Grid, to assess the disclosure patterns of 89 gay men and 55 lesbians across their entire social network. In addition to assessing disclo...

An abstraction network is a compact network summarizing the structure and content of a given ontology. Abstraction networks have been shown to support orientation into and quality assurance of ontologies. Area and partial-area taxonomies are examples of abstraction networks that utilize the relationships of an ontology to group together classes with similar structure and semantics. These taxono...

The aims of this study were twofold: (a) to determine if dispositional achievement goal orientation profiles that are reported in the literature would be observed in a sample of youth athletes, and (b) to examine potential achievement goal orientation profile differences on perceptions of the motivational climate, perceptions of peer relationships, and motivation-related responses. Male soccer ...

In our paper we try to answer two empirical research questions. First, we assess the deliberative quality of discussions in two committees of the EU Parliament. In order to do so, we use a slightly revised version of the DQI. Second, we identify and empirically measure those variables that systematically influence the quality of deliberation in interviews with debate actors. We argue that the q...

Object-oriented analysis and design have been more concerned with system functionality, neglecting non-functional aspects; the result is code which is tangled and difficult to maintain, contradicting main principles of object orientation. Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD) proposes the early specification of non-functional requirements. However, a standard and homogenous vision of the ...

Social trust is one of the foundations for social order in society. Trust in any organization is affected by various factors such as customer satisfaction, service quality, staff skill and taking into account the customer orientation and service receivers’ satisfaction principles. This research seeks to study the sociological study of social trust of the insured population of social security or...

Most of the automatic fingerprint verification systems are based on minutiae pattern matching. The accuracy of the system depends on the quality and location of minutiae. Most of the time, the quality of the ridges in the fingerprint image is not well defined. This leads to failure of precise location of minutiae. Hence, it is essential to get distinct ridges from the fingerprint images. The or...

in developed countries, improvement has been made in service providing industries along with the improvements made in quality assurance and management skills and systems in the domain of manufacturing industries. unfortunately, in developing countries, primary needs have led these countries to focus their attention illogically and solely on production and they disregard the quality of services....