Mixed-initiative clustering is a machine learning task that integrates a machine’s clustering capability and a user’s guidance in order to obtain the user’s desired result. This task is different from traditional autonomous clustering tasks by introducing user criterion, a user’s understanding of data and purpose of sorting. We propose a framework for mixed-initiative clustering to solve proble...

A model of business success was developed with motivational resources (locus of control, self-efficacy, achievement motivation, and self-reported personal initiative) and cognitive resources (cognitive ability and human capital) as independent variables, business owners' elaborate and proactive planning as a mediator, and business size and growth as dependent variables. Three studies with a tot...

OBJECTIVES This study examined whether self-focused and other-focused resiliency help explain how early family adversity relates to perceived stress, subjective health, and health behaviors in college women. PARTICIPANTS Female students (N = 795) participated between October 2009 and May 2010. METHODS Participants completed self-report measures of early family adversity, self-focused (self-...

Personal growth is usually considered an outcome of intrapersonal processes-personal resources residing within the person. Comparatively, little research has examined the interpersonal processes underlying personal growth. We investigated how one interpersonal factor-people's relationships with others-influences personal growth. Study 1 showed that brief reminders of a supportive (vs. nonsuppor...

During the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama unveiled plans for a $215 million Precision Medicine Initiative. The details of this plan were laid out by past and present directors of the National Institutes of Health, Harold Varmus and Francis Collins, in a commentary in the New England Journal of Medicine. While the announcement stood as a public statement of support for funding,...

The Qatari free-wirelessinternet-park (iPark) concept was launched in 2007 under the banner of e-government in order to make public services more accessible to citizens. The iPark initiative is implemented in a number of public parks and provides free connection to the citizens’ Internet ready devices, such as laptops and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) at any time of the day. The first such ...

The rapid pace of change of the knowledge intensive era, supported by the emergence of Web2.0 and the consequential growth of personalised applications, has fuelled debate on the notion of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). The concept of personalisation, adaptability and accessibility is particularly pertinent in terms of creating a learning environment that meets the individual needs of d...

OBJECTIVE This study examines the politics of appropriating Question 1 tobacco tax revenues in the first budget year after Massachusetts voters passed the ballot initiative in 1992. The initiative increased the tobacco tax on cigarettes by 25 cents per pack and on smokeless tobacco by 25% of the wholesale price. METHODS Data were collected from newspapers, letters, memoranda, budgets, press r...

Safety performance monitoring through leading indicators is a key initiative that may be able to improve safety performance. Leading indicators are safety metrics that are associated with, and precede, an undesirable/unexpected consequence such as an operational incident, near miss or personal injury. Their utility for risk management comes from the possibility that they may reveal areas of wea...