We are looking at how new forms of document interface can be used to support new forms of scholarly discourse, and ultimately, new models of scholarly publishing. The vehicle we use to conduct this research is the Digital Document Discourse Environment (D3E). D3E is an experimental system supporting the publication of web-based documents with integrated discourse facilities and embedded interac...

The experimental system discussed in this paper uses a threefold upprouch to the simulution of actuul banking activities. A generulized bunk modeling system is presented from which u subset is selectedjor use. The user interacts with the modeling system viu an inteructive simulution language. The composition of the desired model is determined interactively via a terminal und un inteructive mode...

M. J. Lerner (1980) proposed that people need to believe in a just world; thus, evidence that the world is not just is threatening, and people have a number of strategies for reducing such threats. Early research on this idea, and on just-world theory more broadly, was reviewed in early publications (e.g., M. J. Lerner, 1980; M. J. Lerner & D. T. Miller, 1978). In the present article, focus is ...

When a new investigational medicine is intended to be applied to populations with different ethnic backgrounds, a stratified comparative phase III trial using ethnic groups as strata may be conducted to assess the influence of ethnic factors on clinical outcomes of this new medicine. In this paper, based on a binomial model with odds ratio as the measure of the treatment effect, we derive the s...

This article explores how French psychologists understood the state of their field during the first quarter of the twentieth century, and whether they thought it was in crisis. The article begins with the Russianborn psychologist Nicolas Kostyleff and his announcement in 1911 that experimental psychology was facing a crisis. After briefly situating Kostyleff, the article examines his analysis o...

This dissertation proposal abstract presents the motivation for the proposed research, the theoretical background for the proposed dissertation and a detailed description of the proposed research methodology. The research being carried out tests several elements of Media Synchronicity Theory, namely that the reprocessability and symbol variety of a medium will influence a recipient’s ability to...

A Confounder is a variable whose presence affects the variables being studied so that the results do not reflect the actual relationship. There are various ways to exclude or control confounding variables including Randomization, Restriction and Matching. But all these methods are applicable at the time of study design. When experimental designs are premature, impractical, or impossible, resear...