In 2 studies, the psychometric properties of 3 methods for measuring real-ideal and real-ought self-discrepancies were compared: the idiographic Self-Concept Questionnaire-Personal Constructs, the nonidiographic Self-Concept Questionnaire-Conventional Constructs, and the content-free Abstract Measures. In the 1st study, 125 students at a university clinic completed the 3 instruments and measure...

This paper studies the information content of some Ifo indicators. In particular, we investigate whether two Ifo indicators, one on the current business situation, the other on current production development, provide information on revisions of German industrial production. A new feature of our analysis is the construction and use of a real-time dataset. We conclude that the Ifo indicators play...

the more clearly the clinician comprehends the processes of clinical perception and of linking the experience with explanation, the more thoughtfully clinical students can be guided to construct an accurate 'clinical memory' of cases, and to construct a sound 'working knowledge' structure from their personal 'examined experience'. the structuring of the steps of cl...

Define the middle layer graph as the graph whose vertex set consists of all bitstrings of length 2n + 1 that have exactly n or n + 1 entries equal to 1, with an edge between any two vertices for which the corresponding bitstrings differ in exactly one bit. The middle levels conjecture asserts that this graph has a Hamilton cycle for every n ≥ 1. This conjecture originated probably with Havel, B...

Conservation psychology models include certain personal characteristics, experiences, attitudes and beliefs as predictors of conservation. We propose that a concept from evolutionary psychology, called the K-Factor, may provide the theoretical groundwork for a unifying theory of proenvironmental behavior, incorporating and connecting many predictors from existing conservation literature. The K-...

based on the epistemological theory of islamic reformism which is an important school of thought in the muslim world, in order to gain or construct an authentic knowledge, the interaction between reason and religion is a necessity. this theory faces with two main theoretical challenges. the first challenge is the position of modernists toward this theory. they argue that this theory is in contr...