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...

This is a delightful book, and in some ways an alarming one. It deals with the special entertainment films for children, produced by Mary Field for the J. Arthur Rank Organisation between 1944 and 1950. She called the book "Good Company", because her aim was to see that for a few hours each week, children should have an opportunity of "intimacy with good example", believing that "the friends yo...

To understand and be successful with analytics, it is important to be precise in understanding what analytics means, the different targets or approaches that companies can take to using analytics, and the drivers that lead to the use of analytics. For companies that use advanced analytics, the keys to success include a clear business need; strong, committed sponsorship; a fact-based decision ma...

This paper describes a corpus of conversations recorded using an extension of the DiapixUK task: the Diapix Foreign Language corpus (DIAPIX-FL) . English and Spanish native talkers were recorded speaking both English and Spanish. The bidirectionality of the corpus makes it possible to separate language (English or Spanish) from speaking in a first language (L1) or second language (L2). An acous...

Tables show the results of the classifiers for the SFM and the FFDM datasets using a 10-fold crossvalidation and the complete dataset, with 20 features selected by the inter/intra cluster criteria and with 20 features of the PCA. Noelia Vállez1,2, Gloria Bueno1, Oscar Déniz-Suárez1, José A. Seoane2, Julián Dorado2, and Alejandro Pazos2 1 VISILAB, E.T.S.I.I, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Sp...

The paper presents the problem of choosing the representatives in an assembly when the whole electoral region is subdivided into electoral districts. Because of the two dimensions, geographical (districts) and political (parties), the problem is called bi-apportionment. Often the allocation of seats to districts is pre-determined and furthermore distorted —meaning that the ratios of the number ...

An efficient and cost-effective approach in the synthesis process of the bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) powders and pellets were developed based on a chemical solution route. The route consists of dissolving of both the bismuth (III) nitrate pentahydrate, Bi(NO3)3.5H2O, and tellurium dioxide, TeO2 into the same inorganic nitric a...

A graph   is called integral if all eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix  are integers.  Given a subset $S$ of a finite group $G$, the bi-Cayley graph $BCay(G,S)$ is a graph with vertex set $Gtimes{1,2}$ and edge set ${{(x,1),(sx,2)}mid sin S, xin G}$.  In this paper, we classify all finite groups admitting a connected cubic integral bi-Cayley graph.

This research focuses on human-centered knowledge sharing within data-driven decision making processes enabled by advanced analytics. The paper describes an exploratory study of an innovative approach to ongoing improvement of complex data-driven decision making processes found in a large retail distribution company by considering a complex interplay of business intelligence (BI) /business anal...