The goal of the present study was to take a new look at the relationship between creativity and cognitive functioning. Based on models that have postulated domain- and sub-domain-structures for different forms of creativity, like scientific, technical or artistic creativity with cognitive functions as important basis, we developed a new questionnaire. The Artistic Creativity Domains Compendium ...

In the past, many refinements have been proposed to select equilibria in cheap talk games. Usually, these refinements were motivated by a discussion of how rational agents would reason in some particular cheap talk games. In this paper, we propose a new refinement and stability measure that is intended to predict actual behavior in a wide range of cheap talk games. According to our Average Cred...

We present a randomized distributed algorithm that computes a ∆-coloring in any noncomplete graph with maximum degree ∆ ≥ 4 in O(log∆) + 2 √ log logn) rounds, as well as a randomized algorithm that computes a ∆-coloring in O((log logn)) rounds when ∆ ∈ [3, O(1)]. Both these algorithms improve on an O(log n/ log∆)-round algorithm of Panconesi and Srinivasan [STOC’1993], which has remained the st...

In many healthcare settings, intuitive decision rules for risk stratification can help effective hospital resource allocation. This paper introduces a novel variant of decision tree algorithms that produces a chain of decisions, not a general tree. Our algorithm, α-Carving Decision Chain (ACDC), sequentially carves out “pure” subsets of the majority class examples. The resulting chain of decisi...

This paper presents an extension of the ACDC algorithm introduced by Yeredor for the instantaneous mixing problem to the more general convolutive mixing problem with non-white sources. Further assumptions made on the source signals are their mutual statistical independence, nonstationarity and smoothness of their power spectra. The algorithm iterates the estimation of the mixing system (AC step...

BACKGROUND National assisted reproductive technology (ART) data collections that rely on practitioners' reports of birth defects have consistently reported lower proportions of children with birth defects than record linkage studies that link ART infants to birth and malformation registers. METHODS We compared the birth defect data reported to the national Australian Assisted Conception Data ...

BACKGROUND School dropout is considered a serious problem in high schools in Norway. Despite studies which emphasize the importance of mental health as a unique risk factor for dropout, interventions have only taken this into account to a limited extent. Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues. Here we report the study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial of a ...