Few studies have investigated the impact of life coaching on self-regulated behavior and well-being. A limitation of past studies has been their reliance on peer rather than professional coaches. The present randomized controlled study compared peer with professional life coaching over a 10-week period with 63 participants. Results indicated that, compared to peer coachees and controls, coachee...

Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPMs) are a popular family of general intelligence tests, and provide a non-verbal measure of a test subject’s reasoning abilities. Traditionally RPMs have been manually designed. To make them readily available for both practice and examination, we tackle the problem of automatically synthesizing RPMs. Our goal is to efficiently generate a large number of RPMs that...

Of all forms of Intelligent Narrative, interactive narratives are uniquely well-poised to benefit from player modelling techniques. Given the availability of immediate player feedback as interactions with the narrative’s world, the traditional task of delayed authoring can be informed with the author’s knowledge of which types of players should prefer each event; this allows generated narrative...

The present study was carried out to test an exploratory model consisting of three sets of variables (demographic, personality and workand family-related variables) in the prediction of well-being. The model also provided a test of the indirect effect of these variables on well-being, via perceptions of work–family conflict. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were used. In a sample of 1...

In view of the fact that clusters used in large scale computing are on the rise, ensuring the wellbeing of these clusters is of paramount significance. This highlights the importance of supervising and monitoring the cluster. In this regard, many tools have been contributed that can efficiently monitor the Hadoop cluster. The majority of these tools congregates necessary information from each o...

Religion occupies a central place in all speculations, ancient or modern, East or West. Religions of the world are a great driving force in imparting guidance and inspiration to human beings in general. The essence of all religions is the attainment of self-happiness. When the essence of all religions in the world is strung together in understanding and mutual acceptance, then it will create a ...

The positive relationship between wealth and wellbeing has received considerable attention over the last three decades. However, little is known about how the significance of wealth for the health and wellbeing of older adults may vary across societies. Furthermore, researchers tend to focus mainly on income rather than other aspects of financial resources even though older adults often rely on...