Qualitative reasoning is an area of AI which provides solutions to problems where the quantitative information either is not available or can not be used; in particular, order of magnitude qualitative reasoning assumes different qualitative classes and relations such as negligibility and closeness. In this paper, we focus mainly on the very important notion of closeness from the logical point o...

Having a distant relationship with parents seems to increase the risk of developing a more negative global self-esteem. This article describes a longitudinal study of 1,090 Norwegian adolescents from the age of 13-23 (54 % males) that explored whether peer acceptance can act as a moderator and protect global self-esteem against the negative effects of experiencing low closeness in relationships...

In this paper, we propose a new method for measuring the closeness of multiple sets of rules that are combined using Dempster’s rule of combination to improve classification performance. The closeness provides an insight into combining multiple sets of rules in classification − in what circumambience the performance of combinations of some sets of rules using Dempster’s rule is better than that...

We examined whether interpersonal closeness increases salivary progesterone. One hundred and sixty female college students (80 dyads) were randomly assigned to participate in either a closeness task with a partner versus a neutral task with a partner. Those exposed to the closeness induction had higher levels of progesterone relative to those exposed to the neutral task. Across conditions, prog...

INTRODUCTION Our goal was to evaluate the impact of depressed mothers' marital intimacy and attachment security in romantic relationships on children's internalizing and externalizing symptoms. METHOD Forty-six clinically depressed mothers rated attachment security, marital intimacy, and symptoms shown by their children aged 8 to 12. RESULTS Maternal avoidance of closeness predicted increas...

The aim of this exploratory study was to explore the relationship between self-compassion, other-compassion, closeness, trust, and social support, and to determine whether there were gender differences between variables. First, it discusses the new construct of compassion for self and others. Second, it examines the potential relationship between compassion and interpersonal communication varia...

P/poly, the class of sets with polynomial size circuits, has been the subject of considerable study in complexity theory. Two important subclasses of P/poly are the class of sparse sets 6] and the class of P-selective sets 31]. A large number of results have been proved about both these classes but it has been observed (for example, 17]) that despite their similarity, proofs about one class gen...

a novel algorithm for the fast detection of hubs in chemical networks is presented. thealgorithm identifies a set of nodes in the network as most significant, aimed to be the mosteffective points of distribution for fast, widespread coverage throughout the system. we showthat our hubs have in general greater closeness centrality and betweenness centrality thanvertices with maximal degree, while...