With standardization e orts of a query language for XML documents drawing to a close, researchers and users increasingly focus their attention on the database technology that has to deliver on the new challenges that the sheer amount of XML documents produced by applications pose to data management: validation, performance evaluation and optimization of XML query processors are the upcoming iss...

The expressive power of process algebras is investigated in a general setting of structural operational semantics. The notion of an eeective operational semantics is introduced and it is observed that no eeective operational semantics for an enumerable language can specify all eeective process graphs up to trace equivalence. A natural class of Plotkin style SOS speciications is identiied, conta...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the special considerations for building rapport and establishing a therapeutic alliance when conducting mental health evaluations for children and adolescents via videoconferencing. METHODS The authors review the literature and describe their experience in conducting mental health evaluations, developing rapport, and establishing a therapeut...

En termes économiques, l’efficacité mesure en quoi une activité atteint les objectifs visés. Le rapport coût-efficacité, à savoir le entre un intrant et réalisation intermédiaire ou finale, rend compte du lien ressources utilisées résultats obtenus ; il s’agit d’un élément crucial pour évaluer la réussite des politiques publiques. Dans secteurs de l’éducation santé, on dispose d’éléments intran...

This study examined the effects of rapport (emotional, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development [NICHD]) and prompt type (what-next, cued-action, cued-emotion, what-think) on one hundred forty-two 4-9-year-old maltreated children's spontaneous and prompted emotional language. Children in the emotional-rapport condition narrated the last time they felt good and the last time they...

Psychology research reports that people tend to seek companionship with those who have a similar level of extraversion, and markers in dialogue show the speaker’s extraversion. Work in human-computer interaction seeks to understand creating and maintaining rapport between humans and ECAs. This study examines if humans will report greater rapport when interacting with an agent with an extraversi...