With introduction of social niche effects into a model of cultural change, the frequency of a practice cannot predict the frequency of its underlying belief. The combination of a general model with empirical data from a specific case illustrates the importance of collaboration between modellers and field researchers, and identifies the type of quantitative data necessary for analysing case stud...

The project for the development of mentoring in an additional education institution is a socio-cultural practice aimed at self-actualization subjects educational process. Systematization experience purpose this work. authors view such forms as “teacher-teacher” and “student-student” through prism their influence on teachers students institution. based methods comparison generalization teachers,...

Traditional theories of personality view the healthy individual as anxiety-free. Some recent experimental research also seems to point in that direction. Rollinsf") found a negative correlation between the level of actualization and that of anxiety, and these results later were corroborated by Sedekel<"^ On the other hand, a number of more recent theories consider the possible positive aspect o...

The basic interconnections of module specifications (union, composition and actualization) were studied in earlier papers. Here we introduce partial composition and partial actualization of module specifications, describe the connection with their "total" counterpart and prove that the result of successive partial compositions (or actualizations) is independent of the order. We also introduce a...

We propose a set of rules for the computation of prosody which are implemented in an existing generic Data-to-Speech system. The rules make crucial use of both sentence-internal and sentence-external semantic and syntactic information provided by the system. In a Text-toSpeech system, this information would have to be obtained through text analysis, but in Data-to-Speech it is readily available...

Legal idea, as a kind of rational cognitive state, is the spiritual core of national laws. Traditional articleremembering legal education is either necessary or meaningful in practice. The cultivation of young students’ scientific legal idea is vital for the success of national law modernization. In practice, to cultivate young students’ scientific legal ideas, we should strengthen the recognit...