In this study, associations between alexithymia, interpersonal problems, and cognitive-structural aspects of internal interpersonal representations were examined. Alexithymia was measured using the Toronto Structured Interview for Alexithymia (TSIA) and the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). To measure interpersonal problems, the dominance and affiliation dimension scores of the Invent...

In the field of electronic publishing, encyclopedias represent a unique sort of text for investigating advanced methods of navigation. The user of an electronic encyclopedia normally expects special methods for accessing the entries in an encyclopedia database. Navigation through printed encyclopedias in the traditional sense focuses on the alphabetic order of the entries. In electronic encyclo...

The starting point for this article is the fact that each spatial object i is characterized by three coordinates: x (latitude), y (longitude) and zi(by tradition elevation). The discussion is organized around three axes. First, the author reviews some of main problems encountered when representing a volume (ellipsoid) on a plane (map). Second, some elementary principles of cartography are discu...

There is abundant evidence that thematic map accuracy may vary across a landscape in a manner that is only partially related to land cover type. Spatial variation in accuracy may be attributable to factors such as terrain, landscape complexity, and land use patterns. There may be serious consequences in the construction and application of thematic maps when the pattern and degree of spatial var...

This study investigates the comprehension of three kinds of subject-extracted relative clauses (SRs) in Mandarin Chinese: standard SRs, relative clauses involving the disposal ba construction ("disposal SRs"), and relative clauses involving the long passive bei constructions ("passive SRs"). In a self-paced reading experiment, the regions before the relativizer (where the sentential fragments a...

Remote Sensing Images are one of the main sources of information about the earth surface. They are widely used to generate thematic maps that show the land cover. This process is traditionally done by using supervised classifiers which learn patterns extracted from few image pixels annotated by the user and then assign a label to the remaining pixels. However, due to the increasing spatial reso...