BACKGROUND A great deal of attention has been given to the study of learning disorders. Hence, the aim of this research was to study the effect of emotion regulation training in decreasing emotion failures and self-injurious behaviors among students suffering from specific learning disorder. METHODS This was an experimental study with the pre-test, post-test and a control group. Research popu...

Two studies addressed parallel questions about the correlates and consequences of self-enhancement bias. Study 1 was conducted in a laboratory context and examined self-enhancing evaluations of performance in a group-interaction task. Study 2 assessed students' illusory beliefs about their academic ability when they first entered college and then followed them longitudinally to test claims abou...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the real sequences γ0, γ1, γ2, . . . with the property that if p(x) = ∑n k=0 akx k is any real polynomial, then ∑n k=0 γkakx k has no more nonreal zeros than p(x). In particular, the authors establish a converse to a classical theorem of Laguerre.

produce a measure of relative differences in each country. The figure combines the data for neonatal and postneonatal mortality and shows that England and Wales have a steeper and more consistent gradient of mortality across social classes than Sweden. The width of the "steps" is proportional to each class's share of total live births. The differences in total mortality and its socioeconomic di...

The decreasing diagrams technique is a complete method to reduce confluence of a rewrite relation to local confluence. Whereas previous presentations have focussed on the proof the technique is correct, here we focus on applicability. We present a simple but powerful generalisation of the technique, requiring peaks to be closed only by conversions instead of valleys, which is demonstrated to fu...

A key issue in the handling of temporal data is the treatment of persistence; in most approaches it consists in inferring defeasi­ ble conlusions by extrapolating from the ac­ tual knowledge of the history of the world; we propose here a gradual modelling of per­ sistence, following the idea that persistence is decreasing (the further we are from the last time point where a fluent is known to b...

The theory of increasing positively homogeneous functions deened on the positive orthant is applied to the class of decreasing functions. A multiplicative version of the inf-convolution operation is studied for decreasing functions. Modiied penalty functions for some constrained optimization problems are introduced which are in general nonlinear with respect to the objective function of the ori...

This paper incorporates egocentric comparisons into a human capital accumulation model and studies the evolution of positive self image over time. The paper shows that the process of human capital accumulation together with egocentric comparisons imply that positive self image of a cohort is first increasing and then decreasing over time. Additionally, the paper finds that positive self image: ...