In a series of studies, it is demonstrated that different types of self-affirmation procedures produce different effects. Affirming personally important values (value affirmation) increases self-clarity but not self-esteem. Affirming positive qualities of the self (attribute affirmation) increases self-esteem but not self-clarity (Study 1). As a consequence, attribute affirmation (which increas...

This paper elaborates on ontology-based end-user visual query formulation, particularly for users who otherwise cannot/do not desire to use formal textual query languages to retrieve data due to the lack of technical knowledge and skills. Then, it provides a set of quality attributes and features, primarily elicited via a series of industrial enduser workshops and user studies carried out in th...

Introduction: The search for habitable environments and life requires a working concept of life’s fundamental attributes. This concept helps to identify the “services” that an environment must provide to sustain life. We must consider the possibility that extraterrestrial life might differ fundamentally from our own, but it is still worthwhile to begin by hypothesizing attributes of life that m...

Social networks that are built on top of the web, e.g., orkut [9], have been proliferating among online communities. We propose social internetworks, where essential functions of social networks are implemented on top of peer-to-peer networks. Participants and communities are connected through attribute queries and reputation queries; reputation queries are applied to attributes with Secure Eig...

Audio feature extraction play an essential role in automatic music classification. This paper explains the needed for a standardized audio feature extraction system, describes the most important attributes that such a system should possess and presents a prototype that has been developed to meet this need.

The cyclic variation in the energy envelope of the speech signal results from the production of speech in syllables. This acoustic property is often identified as a source of information in the perception of syllable attributes, though spectral variation can also provide this information reliably. In the present study of the relative contributions of the energy and spectral envelopes in speech ...

We propose a method, called PREDIQT, for model based prediction of impact of architecture design changes on system quality. PREDIQT supports simultaneous analysis of several quality attributes and their trade-offs. This paper argues for the feasibility of the PREDIQT method based on a comprehensive industrial case study targeting a system for managing validation of electronic certificates and s...

(Acetoxy-)valerenic acid and total essential oil content are important quality attributes of pharmacy grade valerian root (Valerianae radix). Traditional analysis of these quantities is time-consuming and necessitates (harmful) solvents. Here we investigated an application of attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy for extractionless analysis of these quality attribu...

This study examines the price structure of milk powders targeting Chinese older adults, with special emphasis on assessment front-of-pack (FOP) voluntary well-being messaging (VWM), using a hedonic model. Data 456 sets product prices and attributes were collected from official stores at online shops, TMALL.com JD.com, in China. Prices recorded 10 d before, during after major promotion event (11...