Culture is a key dimension of the information society, that refers to the cumulative knowledge, experience, beliefs, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, spatial relations and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in each generations. This research proposed a method to create linked open data from semantic relation extraction for Thai cultural archive. It describ...

Abstract This study proposes a primary node election method based on probabilistic linguistic term set (PLTS) for the practical Byzantine fault tolerance (PBFT) consensus mechanism to effectively enhance efficiency of reaching consensus. Specifically, novel concept with confidence interval (PLTS-CI) is presented express uncertain complex voting information nodes during election. Then, score fun...

Though languages show rich variation in the clausal embedding strategies employed attitude reports, most mainstream formal semantic theories of attitudes assume that complement an verb contributes at least a proposition to semantics. The goal this paper is contribute growing cross-linguistic perspective by providing analyses for two found with verbs Oromo (Cushitic): verbal nominalization, and ...

OBJECTIVE Studies from the USA have identified medical students as a major source of stigmatizing attitudes towards overweight and obese individuals. As data from Europe is scarce, medical students' attitudes were investigated at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey containing an experimental manipulation consisting of a pair of vignettes depicting an o...

The article is devoted to the study of assessment past experience in connection with peculiarities value-semantic sphere students aged 19 21 years. It presents a comparative analysis results Faculty Psychology various attitudes experience, by dividing them into two groups positive and neutral-negative experience. carried out on basis number techniques that allow one see substantive aspects moti...

Research has shown that older adults have increased difficulty comprehending foreign-accented speech. As these studies only used behavioral measures, we exploited the fine-grained temporal resolution of EEG/ERPs to examine neural signatures foreign- and native-accented sentence comprehension in adults. Older adults, all normal-hearing monolingual English speakers, listened foreign Chinese-accen...

The article provides an insight into a problem of lexical semantic change. A short historical outline of the development of semantic studies is given. The authors analyze some of the most important stages in the history of the formation of this field. The existing approaches to dealing with form and meaning, namely semasiological and onomasiological ones are discussed. The authors consider the ...

Our study considered dental students' general attitudes towards older persons using the Aging Semantic Differential. The influence of age, gender, cohort, education, and academic exposure on general attitudes towards older adults was evaluated using a total of 328 dental students across all four years of academic standing. Students were assessed in the fall and spring semesters. The results sho...

The following article discusses the relationship between the model of intellectual disability and the attitudes towards sexuality of people with disabilities. This correlation has been verified during the author's own research conducted on students of several medical faculties such as nursing, public health, emergency medical services and physiotherapy. Tools of the author's design have been us...