Although perfectionist orientations have been linked to a variety of cognitive, affective, and behavioral correlates in youth sport, little is known about antecedent factors that may influence adolescent athletes' perfectionist orientations. The purpose of this study was to determine whether perceptions of parenting styles differ as a function of adolescent athletes' perfectionist orientations....

Medical or Health related search queries constitute a significant portion of the total number of queries searched everyday on the web. For health queries, the authenticity or authoritativeness of search results is of utmost importance besides relevance. So far, research in automatic detection of authoritative sources on the web has mainly focused on a) link structure based approaches and b) sup...

Aḥmad Ṣubḥī Manṣūr is a contemporary Egyptian researcher who has been considered by some as the spiritual leader of the Qur’ānists in that country. Relying on the Qur’ān, he tries to introduce this divine book as the only source of legislation and prove the non-authoritativeness of the Sunna. Referring to the verses that seemingly consider God and the Qur’ān to be enough for the human, deem the...

Associations between the sun exposure and sun protective behaviours of adolescents and their friends were examined along with the role played by authoritative parenting and other family and peer socialisation factors. Four hundred and two adolescents (198 males, 204 females) participated in the research. It was found that these adolescents and their friends shared similar sun exposure and sun p...

This study examines the use of blogs as a means of tourism marketing communication. Using a scenario-based approach, an on-line experiment was conducted to test whether consumers perceive corporate and personal blogs to be credible sources of information and to compare the perceived credibility of blogs to that of traditional wordof-mouth. The findings suggest that while consumers do not genera...

The advent of the Web of Data kindled interest in linktraversal (or lookup-based) query processing methods, with which queries are answered via dereferencing a potentially large number of small, interlinked sources. While several algorithms for query evaluation have been proposed, there exists no notion of completeness for results of so-evaluated queries. In this paper, we motivate the need for...

The more the Internet grows, the more a researcher has to cope with the so called ''information overload'', or ''data deluge''. Reliability, updating, authoritativeness of a Web site ought to be a requirement, all the more reason for the biomedical field. During the past years libraries and information specialists have been developing projects, such as gateways and virtual reference desks, aime...

We envision an improved social Web, in which the Trolls’ disruptive power is inhibited or restricted, and the content produced by and shared among community members can gain authoritativeness. We believe that argumentation theories have the potential to give a key contribution to this vision. We sketch a research path in this direction and discuss some research questions. It can be argued that ...

Texans are often presented as self-righteousness, simpleminded, and big-mouthed individualists. Despite this individualist stance, by believing in law and order they are supposed to have their own way of authoritativeness. Operationalizing the love for authority, it is demonstrated empirically that these prevalent stereotypes about Texans are unfounded. There are two reasons for the prevalence ...