Background & Aims: Attachment styles result from a child’s early relationships with their primary care provider. We should bear in mind that there is a significant correlation between these styles and emotional disorders (death anxiety) occurring throughout an individual’s life. If these connections are not formed correctly during early childhood, the individual will most likely suffer mental a...

The statistical analysis of the heterogeneity of the style of a text often leads to the analysis of contingency tables of ordered rows. When multiple authorship is suspected, one can explore that heterogeneity through either a change-point analysis of these rows, consistent with sudden changes of author, or a cluster analysis of them, consistent with authors contributing exchangeably, without t...

Numerous studies have shown that depression-prone people are characterized by a chronic style of attributing failures to internal, stable, and global causes, sometimes labeled as the "depressive attributional style." Much less is known, however, about how social-cultural factors such as religious beliefs might modulate these processes. In the current study, we hypothesized that Buddhism's view ...

Büchi’s theorem, in establishing the equivalence between languages definable in S1S over pP,ăq and the ω-regular languages also demonstrated that S1S over pP,ăq is no more expressive than its existential fragment. It is also easy to see that S1S over pP,ăq is equi-expressive with S1S over pP, sq. However, it is not immediately obvious whether it is possible to adapt Büchi’s argument to establis...

in this study, we introduce and study a concept of distributed fuzzymodeling. fuzzy modeling encountered so far is predominantly of a centralizednature by being focused on the use of a single data set. in contrast to this style ofmodeling, the proposed paradigm of distributed and collaborative modeling isconcerned with distributed models which are constructed in a highly collaborativefashion. i...

... When once the engine shall have been constructed, the difficulty shall ha1)e been reduced to the making out of cards; but as these are merely the translation of algebraical formulae, it will, by means of some simple notations, be easy to consign the execution of them to a workman. Thus, the whole intellectual labour will be limited to the preparation of the formulae, which must be adapted f...

We describe a new method for finding finite models of unsorted first-order logic clause sets. The method is a MACE-style method, i.e. it ”flattens” the first-order clauses, and for increasing model sizes, instantiates the resulting clauses into propositional clauses which are consecutively solved by a SAT-solver. We enhance the standard method by using 4 novel techniques: term definitions, whic...

How can we help people design well-formed and innovative games? The design Patterns of Christopher Alexander is one methodology that has been proposed to assist in the design of well-formed artifacts. However, most work on gamedesign Patterns to date has opted either for “best practice” style Patterns – or for an alternative model of Patterns to support game innovation. This paper describes ini...