BACKGROUND This study compared a dimensional, trait domain approach to characterizing personality pathology with the traditional polythetic approach with respect to their associations with interpersonal functioning and personality traits from the five factor model. METHODS Psychiatric inpatients (N=1476) were administered the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II personality disord...

Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have been used in Information Retrieval. The results are not encouraging. Simple methods (stopwording, porter-style stemming, etc.) usually yield significant improvements, while higher-level processing (chunking, parsing, word sense disambiguation, etc.) only yield very small improvements or even a decrease in accuracy. At the same time, higher-...

This study investigates the merits of employing active learning strategies in the delivery of information literacy instruction (ILI). Traditional approaches to the teaching of information literacy skills – where students are passive recipients of the information they receive – are challenged. Rather, methods that encourage students to actively engage themselves in the learning process are posit...

We propose a new style of operating system architecture appropriate for microkernel-based operating systems: services are implemented as a combination of shared libraries and dedicated server processes. Shared libraries implement performance critical portions of each system service, while dedicated servers implement the parts of each service that do not require high performance or that are diic...

Evening primrose (Oenothera biennis L.) is native to North America, belongs to Onagraceae family, and is a biennial plant. This experiment was performed as factorial based on a completely randomized design in three replications. The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of moist-chilling and GA</s...

This essay re-examines the once promising idea that style analysis can provide an independent source of insight into artifact's non-stylistic context. The makes explicit consequences treating collective as such a in archaeology and anthropology art, further develops new framing for avoids criticisms largely responsible decline theoretical interest epistemic import visual since World War II. re-...

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