Making if-then plans is a self-regulation strategy that facilitates goal attainment. An open question is, however, whether there are individual differences in planning. We, therefore, developed and validated the If-Then Planning Scale (ITPS) three independent studies with more than 2600 participants. The ITPS conceptually grounded implementation intention theory, measuring individuals identify ...

For industrialised countries, control of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most important achievement of biomedicine in the last half-century—certainly in terms of decrease in disease burden. The orderly sequence of research, surveillance, trials and implementation organised by cardiovascular scientists has led to a decline of 80% for both coronary heart disease and stroke in the USA and othe...

This paper gives some known theoretical results about fuzzy rule-based classifiers and offers a few new ones. The ability of Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy classifiers to match exactly and to approximate classification boundaries is discussed. The lemma by Klawonn and Klement about the exact match of a classification boundary in R (2) is extended from monotonous to arbitrary functions. Equivale...

The adverb ”then” is among the most frequent English temporal adverbs, being also capable of filling a variety of semantic roles. The identification of anaphoric usages of ”then” is important for temporal expression resolution, while the temporal relationship usage is important for event ordering. Given that previous work has not tackled the identification and temporal resolution of anaphoric ”...