Science begins with the question, what do I want to know? Science becomes science, however, only when this question is justified and the appropriate methodology is chosen for answering the research question. Research question should precede the other questions; methods should be chosen according to the research question and not vice versa. Modern quantitative psychology has accepted method as p...

To know the decision strategy and the underlying information acquisition behavior of a person is essential for the design of computer programs that support managerial and consumer decision making. Both quantitative methods (e.g. computer-assisted process-tracing systems) and qualitative methods (e.g. verbal protocols) are used to investigate information acquisition behavior of managers and cons...

Firstly, Lidun Hareide and Knut Hofland describe through practical advice the compilation process of The Norwegian Spanish Parallel Corpus (NSPC) created at the University of Bergen (Norway), as well as preliminary findings from ongoing and planned research based on it. The corpus is primarily constructed for research in Translation Studies, and is built to be roughly comparable to the Spanish-...

Despite linguists’ necessary reliance upon writing to present and preserve linguistic data, writing systems have remained a largely neglected corner of linguistics. While the linear and normative aspects of Gelb’s [1963] teleology have been unceremoniously rejected by more recent work on the classification of writing systems, an acknowledgement that more than one dimension may be necessary to c...

We address the problem of a private pension plan sponsor who has to decide the best pension funds that should be offered to the pension plan members. Starting from the analysis of the population of the plan in order to identify a set of representative subscribers, we focus on an individual optimal portfolio allocation in a pension perspective. Then, the optimal allocation for each representativ...

In this paper, we apply the self-optimizing control ideas to find optimal controlled variables in the regulatory layer. The regulatory layer is designed to facilitate stable operation, to regulate and to keep the operation in the linear operating range. Its performance is here quantified using the state drift criterion and the method is evaluated on two distillation column case studies with one...