Most studies on psychotic-like experiences in the non-clinical population were based on self-reported surveys, without any attempt to validate the clinical interview. The present study aimed to test whether the Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome (APS) could be detected in a college population by checking self-report results against an additional interview. A two-stage screening process was used in a...

Successful use of ICT requires domain knowledge and interaction knowledge. It shapes and is shaped by the use of ICT and is less common among older adults. This paper focus on the validation of the computer literacy scale (CLS) introduced by [14]. The CLS is an objective knowledge test of ICT-related symbols and terms commonly used in the graphical user interface of interactive computer technol...

Let a tuple of n objects obeying a query graph (QG) be called the n-tuple. The “Ddistance-value” of this n-tuple is the value of a linear function of distances of the n objects that make up this n-tuple, according to the edges of the QG. This paper addresses the problem of finding the K n-tuples between n spatial datasets that have the smallest Ddistancevalues, the so-called K-Multi-Way Distanc...

Participation is a person's involvement in daily activities in a variety of environments, roles and life situations. Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) experience difficulties in gaining academic achievements or in their engagement in activity of daily living. Motor difficulties have a negative effect on the ability to participate, as well as on various affective components...

Originating from work in operations research the cutting plane refutation system CP is an extension of resolution, where unsatisfiable propositional logic formulas in conjunctive normal form are recognized by showing the non-existence of boolean solutions to associated families of linear inequalities. Polynomial size CP proofs are given for the undirected s-t connectivity principle. The subsyst...

There are many known adipokines differentially secreted from the different adipose depots, however, their paracrine and autocrine effects on de novo adipocyte formation are not fully understood. By developing a co-culture method of pre-adipocytes with primary subcutaneous and visceral adipocytes or tissue explants, we could show that the total secretome inhibited preadipocyte differentiation. U...

Thermal energy storage (TES) increases concentrating solar power (CSP) plant capacity factors, but more important, improves dispatchability; therefore, reducing the capital cost of TES systems is very important to reduce and serve as an enabler for commercial plants. After presenting concept a novel cascade PCM configuration CSP demonstrating it efficiency, needed develop thoughtful economic ev...

NoSQL storage systems are used extensively by web applications and provide an attractive alternative to conventional databases when the need for scalability outweighs the need for transactions. Several of these systems provide quorum-based replication and present the application developer with a choice of multiple client-side “consistency levels” that determine the number of replicas accessed b...