Research on mass communications and on the acceptance of new farm practices may be characterized as an interest in campaigns to gain a acceptance of change. Despite their shared problems, these two fields have shown no interest in each other. However, very recently, as the student of mass communications began to revise his image of an atomized mass society, there have been signs of growing conv...

Using 100 clinical cases, we examined the construct validity of the Mutuality of Autonomy (MOA) Scale (Urist, 1977) using Westen and Rosenthal's (2003) r(contrast - construct validity (CV)) procedure for quantifying a pattern of convergent-discriminant relationships between a target measure and a set of criterion variables. Our 15 criterion variables included the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner...

ion of the morphism 〈u, v〉 in the subscone from 〈S,m,A〉⊗̃〈S1,m1, A1〉 to 〈S2,m2, A2〉 is then the pair 〈ẽ2 ◦ ũ,Λ(v)〉 given by the diagram: S  m // ũ ## Λ(u◦e.1) 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 |A|

The present paper analyses Romanian men's masculinities via a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 380 online personal advertisements posted by men. The case of Romania is particularly interesting for understanding gender relations, since the country has recently experienced the impact of (post-) communisim, democratization, and resurging traditionalism. Romanian men's advertisements often ...

With 19%–28% of Internet users participating in online health discussions, it became imperative to be able to detect and analyze posted personal health information (PHI). In this work we introduce two semantic-based methods for mining PHI on social networks which will warn the users about potential privacy breaches. One method uses WordNet as a source of health-related knowledge, another an ont...

Recent research suggests that pronoun interpretation is guided by the semantic coherence relations between clauses. However, it is not yet wellunderstood whether coherence effects extend to other anaphoric expressions beyond pronouns. We report an experiment on German, a language in which human antecedents can be referred to both with personal and demonstrative pronouns. How do anaphoric demons...

Privacy has been frequently identified as a main concern for system developers while dealing with/managing personal information. Despite this, most existing work on privacy requirements deals with them as a special case of security requirements. Therefore, key aspects of privacy are, usually, overlooked. In this context, wrong design decisions might be made due to insufficient understanding of ...

Video games have the ability to be political products and their virtual nature gives them the freedom to reflect, interpret, and even redefine the political dynamics with which we engage on a daily basis at both personal and international levels. This paper will serve as an initial proposal to a research project that will seek to create a branch of Digital Political Science outlining a method f...

Recent studies of the emotional brain have opened new doors to the understanding of human behavior, character development, relationships, happiness and well being. Recent research has shown that the development of “emotional brain” is dependent on “relationship,” initially parent and child relations. Aside from an individual’s relation with the parents, the human mind has been engaged historica...