Homosexual Applicants to the Priesthood: How Many and Are They Psychologically Healthy?

Homosexual Applicants to the Priesthood: How Many and Are They Psychologically Healthy?

The current investigation evaluated the psychological profiles of applicants to seminary who were identified as being either homosexual or heterosexual in orientation. The MMPI-2 from 63 seminary applicants conducted between 1990 and 2004 was reviewed. Results indicate that 49 applicants (78%) identified themselves as being heterosexual while 14 applicants (22%) identified themselves as being h...

How Many are they and How Do they live?

This paper attempts to define the common people of India in terms of levels of consumption and examines their socio-economic profile in different periods of time since the early 1990s with a view to assessing how the economic growth process has impacted on their lives. The findings should worry everyone. Despite high growth, more than three-fourths of Indians are poor and vulnerable with a leve...

How Many Good Programs are There? How Long are They?

We model the distribution of functions implemented by non-recursive programs, similar to linear genetic programming (GP). Most functions are constants, the remainder are mostly parsimonious. The effect of ad-hoc rules on GP are described and new heuristics are proposed. Bounds on how long programs need to be before the distribution of their functionality is close to its limiting distribution ar...

too many students’ congresses, are they necessary and useful?

Scholars on Twitter: who and how many are they?

In this paper we present a novel methodology for identifying scholars with a Twitter account. By combining bibliometric data from Web of Science and Twitter users identified by Altmetric.com we have obtained the largest set of individual scholars matched with Twitter users made so far. Our methodology consists of a combination of matching algorithms, considering different linguistic elements of...