As humans, we tend to perceive minds in both living and non-living entities, such as robots. From a questionnaire developed in a previous mind perception study, authors found that perceived minds could be located on two dimensions "experience" and "agency." This questionnaire allowed the assessment of how we perceive minds of various entities from a multi-dimensional point of view. In this ques...

Measures of magnitude and impact of differential item functioning (DIF) at the item and scale level, respectively are presented and reviewed in this paper. Most measures are based on item response theory models. Magnitude refers to item level effect sizes, whereas impact refers to differences between groups at the scale score level. Reviewed are magnitude measures based on group differences in ...

The authors propose that the semantic differential, an attitudinal scaling device, be employed by retailers and consumer service institutions to identify factors underlying consumer patronage decisions. Three specific areas of application described are (I) just prior to opening a new store, [2) shortly after a new store has opened, and (3j once a store has reached a stage of relative maturity. ...

The general purpose optimization method known as Differential Evolution (DE) has a number of parameters that determine its behaviour and efficacy in optimizing a given problem. This paper gives a list of good choices of parameters for various optimization scenarios which should help the practitioner achieve better results with little effort.

Dermoscopy is an in vivo method for the early diagnosis of malignant melanoma and the differential diagnosis of pigmented lesions of the skin. It has been shown to increase diagnostic accuracy over clinical visual inspection in the hands of experienced physicians. This article is a review of the principles of dermoscopy as well as recent technological developments.