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Exploring the Betrothed Lovers

We present the ongoing activities and the first results achieved in a research project concerning the understanding of narrative in the high school. Students and teachers experimented with new ways to learn linguistic and digital skills, by using a collaborative learning environment built around the novel I Promessi Sposi. We analyzed the literary text, extracting social networks of characters ...

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Self, friends, and lovers: structural relations among Beck Depression Inventory scores and perceived mate values.

BACKGROUND We used an economic model based on evolutionary theory to guide an examination of relations among self-reported depressive symptoms and ratings of mate values of self, social, and sexual partners. This model treats assortative mating as a form of social exchange between partners of socially and sexually desirable traits. METHODS Two studies used variants of the Mate Value Inventory...

Using Continuations to Build a User-Level Threads Library

We have designed and built a user-level threads library that uses continuations for transfers of control. The use of continuations reduces the amount of state that needs to be saved and restored at context switch time thereby reducing the instruction count in the critical sections. Our multiprocessor contention benchmarks indicate that this reduction and the use of Busy Spinning, Busy Waiting a...

An Approach to build Ontology Library (OntoLib) For Academic e-Library

The aim of this paper is to suggest an approach to build ontology library for academic portal using Semantic Web technologies: RDF, XML, ontology, Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) besides ASP.NET language. Ontologies capture the semantics of information from various sources. OntoLib enables the academic portal faculty to have their research papers published in one centralized pla...