In a commercial system data used for unit selection systems is collected with a heavy emphasis on homogeneous neutral data that has sufficient coverage for the units that will be used in the system. In this years Blizzard entry CSTR and CereProc R ©present a joint entry where the emphasis has been to explore techniques to deal with data which is not homogeneous (the English entry) and did not h...

This paper presents a normative pedagogical model that integrates leadership theory, student development, and cognitive/ego development. The fi rst step, assessment of students’ developmental stage/ needs, uses a developmental model to assess students’ developmental and motivational needs. The second step, selection of teaching style, incorporates leadership literature to develop teaching style...

Within the past decade many writers and researchers have recognized the importance of including psychological characteristics in managerial decision models. Cognitive styles have been singled out for research attention to determine their importance in information use and the acceptance of the recommendations made by management scientists. Despite the evidence that cognitive styles influence inf...

Main results 37 studies met the selection criteria. 26 studies assessed the association between psychological coping and survival from cancer, and 11 studies assessed the association between psychological coping and recurrence of cancer. Follow up periods varied from several months to 15 years. Types of cancers included breast cancer (most common diagnosis), leukaemia, melanoma, and lung and ga...

This paper presents a simple method to recognise multistroke sketches of geometric shapes. It uses temporal adjacency and global geometric properties of gures to recognise a simple vocabulary of geometric shapes including solid and dashed line styles, selection and delete gestures. The geometric features used (convex hull, smallest-area regular polygons, perimeter and area scalar ratios) are in...

As in many other software engineering activities, Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) are fundamental in the process of selection of the architectural style and the technologies for developing a software system. To know more about this issue, we are currently driving a survey to find out which architectural styles and technologies are being in use in IT companies and organizations, and their rela...

An issue of our article is a design of an open electronic atlas of the South Moravia region. The Atlas is open for inserting new cartographic methods and themes. In frame of the design of the atlas we can distinguish three main parts. First one is a publishing environment composed from atlas engine, client interface, inserting interface and procedures. Second one is a reference base which is se...

Relationships between attachment styles and the content and structure of mental representations of parents were investigated. Undergraduates completed 3and 4-category measures of attachment style and wrote descriptions of their parents. Securely attached participants' parental representations were characterized by differentiation, elaboration, benevolence, and nonpunitiveness. Representations b...

To build highly available or reliable applications out of unreliable third-party components, some software-implemented fault-tolerant mechanisms are introduced to gracefully deal with failures in the components. In this paper, we address an important issue in the approach: how to select the most suitable fault-tolerant mechanisms for a given application in a specific context. To alleviate the d...

coach's emotional intelligence inspires health and development of sport teams. balancing emotion and thought, emotional intelligence influences conflict conditions in workplace environment. the aim of this study was to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and conflict management styles in the active karate coaches in isfahan province in 2012. 285 subjects were selected f...