Our previous body of work has implemented a system for inferring the intended messages of information graphics (bar charts, line graphs) that appear in popular media such as newspapers and magazines. This paper explores how a model of user characteristics could be utilized to tailor information graphics to individual users, thus enabling users with varying degrees of skill and ability to attain...

Carl Rogers' article (see record 2007-14639-002) on the necessary and sufficient conditions for personality change has had a significant impact on the field of psychotherapy and psychotherapy research. He emphasized the client as arbiter of his or her own subjective experience and tested his hypothesized therapist-offered conditions of change using recorded sessions. This aided in demystifying ...

The primary aim of this study was to conduct a bivariate genetic analysis investigating the extent to which genetic and environmental factors contribute to stability and change in personality factors in the period from adolescence to young adulthood on a sample of Croatian twins. The sample used in this research was formed in 1992 based on a register of citizens of Zagreb and data was collected...

Personality (Big Five and self-esteem) effects on social relationship quality (perceived support and conflict) and vice versa were longitudinally studied during emerging adulthood. Rank-order stability correlations of personality and social relationship quality were investigated. Subsequently, the mechanisms that may underlie personality development across emerging adulthood were examined. Resu...

II. BACKGROUND.......................................................................................................................... 4 A. The Internet Has Widened the Global Marketplace ......................................................... 4 B. Shopping the Internet “Without” Middlemen Can Be Frustrating................................... 5 C. What Shoppers Want and the Value of Databas...

Genetically engineered crops were first commercialized in 1994 and since then have been rapidly adopted, enabling growers to more effectively manage pests and increase crop productivity while ensuring food, feed, and environmental safety. The development of these crops is complex and based on rigorous science that must be well coordinated to create a plant with desired beneficial phenotypes. Th...

Software agents are intended to perform certain tasks on behalf of their users. In many cases, however, the agent’s competence is not sufficient to produce the desired outcome. This chapter presents an approach to cooperative problem solving in which an information agent and its user try to support each other in achieving a particular goal. As a side effect the user can extend the agent’s capab...

Whereas actual attitudes represent people's evaluations of specific objects as being good or bad, desired the attitude positions that people wish they held. Previous work has established can have psychological consequences, but not yet tested extent to which predict change. In five datasets involving a variety populations and procedural variations, we explored how political moral factors motiva...

Interfacial Assembly of Graphene Oxide In article number 2101659, Milad Kamkar, Uttandaraman Sundararaj, and co-workers demonstrate the great performance graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets at interface oil water. Super elasticity with highest ever reported interfacial storage modulus oil/water is achieved in presence only 0.04 vol.% GO, enabling sculpting water any desired shape.