As long as psychological researchers have worked toward characterizing and understanding human personality, the belief has existed that individual differences can yield important information that can aid in the prediction of specific behaviors or outcomes. Childhood personality offers the potential to better understand, even predict, outcomes such as academic achievement, success in interperson...

On this occasion of sharing the high honor of a Nobel Award with Edward L. Tatum for our" . . . discovery that genes act by regulating chemical events", and with Joshua Lederberg for his related" . . . discoveries concerning the organization of the genetic material of bacteria", it seems appropriate that I sketch briefly the background events that led to the work on Neurospora that Tatum and I ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe some of the social and legal implications of widespread social networking websites. I will start by briefly describing the history of Social Networking Websites (SNWs) and listing some of the most popular current examples. Then, I will view some of the positive cultural effects that SNWs have made. I will also discuss some of the social implications, suc...

In 2007, IBM Research took on the grand challenge of building a computer system that could compete with champions at the game of Jeopardy!i. In 2011, the open-domain question-answering (QA) system, dubbed Watson, beat the two highest ranked players in a nationally televised two-game Jeopardy! match. This paper provides a brief history of the events and ideas that positioned our team to take on ...

Even if the industrial exploitation of the DLV system has started very recently, DLV already has a history of applications on the industrial level. The most valuable applications from a commercial viewpoint are those in the area of Knowledge Management. They have been realized by the company EXEURA s.r.l. a spin-off company of the University of Calabria having a branch also in Chicago with the ...

The article deals with several aspects of the theory mixed government (mixed constitution), given that many scholars, including Max Weber, considered such phenomenon modern political systems as Ceasarism to be a mix monarchy and democracy. In beginning an analysis famous statement from “Roman History” Cassius Dio (who wrote Augustus has “mixed democracy”) is provided. Such terms Ancient Greek d...

The application of Interaction Information Retrieval to retrieve brain CT images is presented. After describing briefly the method and the architecture of the Web application, experimental results are reported and discussed.

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Security protocols aim to allow secure electronic communication despite the potential presence of eavesdroppers. Guaranteeing their correctness is vital in many applications. This report briefly surveys the many formal specification and verification techniques proposed for describing and analysing security protocols.

We discuss the status of the next-to-next-to-leading order calculation in scattering processes, describing briefly the challenges that have been overcome and what challenges are still to be resolved.