objective: the interest in cosmetic surgery has increased dramatically during recent years and psychologists have focused on the associations of this interest. the present study aimed to compare cosmetic surgery patients and normal individuals in terms of their early maladaptive schemas (emss), body image (bi), and self-esteem, as well as investigate the relationships of emss and self-esteem wi...

In a heterogeneous database system which consists of object databases, a global schema created by integrating schemas of the component databases can provide a uniform interface and high level location transparency for the users to retrieve data. The main problem for constructing a global schema is to resolve connicts among component schemas. In this paper, we deene corresponding assertions for ...

Image schemas are recognised as a fundamental ingredient in human cognition and creative thought. They have been studied extensively in areas such as cognitive linguistics. However, the very notion of image schemas is still ill-defined, with varying terminology and definitions throughout the literature. For the purpose of formalising image schemas in order to exploit their role in computational...

Dimension schemas are abstract models of the data hierarchies that populate OLAP warehouses. Although there is abundant work on schema equivalence in a variety of data models, these works do not cover dimension schemas. In this paper we propose a notion of equivalence that allows to compare dimension schemas with respect to their information capacity. The proposed notion is intended to capture ...

The term "schema" has been used to describe vastly different knowledge structures within the memory neuroscience literature. Ambiguous terminology hinders cross-study comparisons and confounds interpretation of the suggested role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in schema functions. Based on an extensive review of the psychological literature, we propose a framework for distinguish...

Due to the wide use of object-oriented technology in software development, reverse engineering of relational schemas to object-oriented schemas is gaining a lot of interest. One of the major problems with existing approaches for this schema mapping is the extensive amount of information that must be gathered either automatically or from the user. This paper presents an object-centered approach ...

Research has demonstrated that bilingual individuals experience a "double personality," which allows them to shift their self-schemas when they are primed with different language modes. In this study, we examine whether self-schemas change in Mexican-American (N = 193) bilinguals living in the U.S. when they provide open-ended personality self-descriptions in both English and Spanish. We used t...

We propose an adaptable approach to discovery of database schemas for well-formed XML data such as EDI, news, and digital libraries, which we interchange, filter, or download for future retrieval and analysis. The generated schemas usually consist of more than one table. Our approach controls the number of tables to be divided by use of statistics of XML so that the total cost of processing que...

International classifications of psychiatric disorders appear to be insufficient to account for the psychological distress associated with aging. Identification of cognitive schemas can be very useful for the diagnostic and therapeutic levels in aged subjects. The aim of this study was to explore the facets of cognitive distress in these subjects, that is how can be integrated specific diagrams...

A schema mapping is an executable specification describing transformation of data structured under different schemas. In this paper we discuss the problem of automatic generation of XML schema mappings using information provided by schemas and correspondences between schemas. Mappings are specified in a mapping language XDMap whose constructs are based on Skolem functions. We use Skolem functio...