This study evaluated the predictive power of perceived descriptive and injunctive norms on intercollegiate student-athlete alcohol consumption and attitudes toward drinking-related behaviors. The sample consisted of 594 NCAA student-athletes from two geographically opposite sites. Norms variables utilized a school and gender-specific athletic peer reference group. Results indicate that responde...

Title of Thesis: THE ROLE OF FEMININE AND MASCULINE NORMS IN COLLEGE WOMEN’S ALCOHOL USE Aylin Esra Kaya, Master of Arts, 2016 Thesis directed by: Dr. Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Department of Psychology Current literature suggests not only that men and women can conform to both feminine and masculine norms, but that women who adhere to certain masculine norms may be at greater risk for problematic al...

UNLABELLED Objectives Gender norms, especially among men, can reduce the effectiveness of HIV prevention programs. We sought to assess the association between attitudes towards gender norms and risky sexual behaviours, and identify sociodemographic factors that predict gender-inequitable and masculinity norms among men in western Jamaica. METHODS A cross-sectional, survey of 549 men aged 19-5...

In this paper we introduce and discuss ten guidelines for the use of normative systems in computer science. We adopt a multiagent systems perspective, because norms are used to coordinate, organize, guide, regulate or control interaction among distributed autonomous systems. The first six guidelines are derived from the computer science literature. From the so-called ‘normchange’ definition of ...

This paper studies four families of polyhedral norms parametrized by a single parameter. The first two families consist of the CVaR norm (which is equivalent to the D-norm, or the largest-k norm) and its dual norm, while the second two families consist of the convex combination of the l1and l∞-norms, referred to as the deltoidal norm, and its dual norm. These families contain the l1and l∞-norms...

Norms have been proposed as a way to regulate multi-agent systems. In order to operationalize norms, several computational frameworks have been proposed for programming norm-governed agent organizations. It has been argued that in such systems it is essential that norms, in particular those giving rise to achievement obligations, have deadlines. In this paper we propose a novel semantic framewo...

To adequately deal with the unpredictable and dynamic environments normative frameworks are typically deployed in, mechanisms for modifying the norms at runtime are crucial. We present the syntax and operational semantics of generic programming constructs to facilitate runtime norm modification, allowing a programmer to specify when and how the norms may be changed by external agents or by the ...

Diagonals of continuous t-norms are studied. The characterization of all functions being diagonals of continuous t-norms is given. To a given diagonal, the class of all continuous t-norms with this diagonal is characterized.

In this note we give some sharp estimates for norms of polynomials via the products of norms of their linear terms. Different convex norms on the unit disc are considered.