The relationships between personality traits and performance are often assumed to be linear. This assumption has been challenged conceptually and empirically, but results to date have been inconclusive. In the current study, we took a theory-driven approach in systematically addressing this issue. Results based on two different samples generally supported our expectations of the curvilinear rel...

Gene networks are important tools in studying gene-gene relationships and gene function. Understanding the relationships within these networks is an important challenge. Ontologies are a critical tool in helping deal with these data. The use of the Gene Ontology, for example, has become routine in methods for validation, discovery, etc. Here we present a novel algorithm that synthesizes an onto...

the immense extent and richness of arabic lexical resources which bring about a great semantic extension, emerge in different ways, one of which is sobriquet. arabs used “alam” (proper noun) in three different forms, namely sobriquet, nickname and noun. in certain cases and due to rhetoric and semantic reasons, arabs used sobriquet instead of noun or nickname. gradually, this application became...

The free software and free culture movements have radically changed the ways of producing software and knowledge goods. In many cases, participation in such project is benefit-driven rather than profit-driven. Participants get involved in order to realize some practical or social benefit, not because of monetary gains. Another difference from marketand firm-based production is that peer product...

The pressure-driven transport of individual DNA molecules in 175-nm to 3.8-microm high silica channels was studied by fluorescence microscopy. Two distinct transport regimes were observed. The pressure-driven mobility of DNA increased with molecular length in channels higher than a few times the molecular radius of gyration, whereas DNA mobility was practically independent of molecular length i...

Learning analytics is a significant area of technology-enhanced learning that has emerged during the last decade. This review of the field begins with an examination of the technological, educational and political factors that have driven the development of analytics in educational settings. It goes on to chart the emergence of learning analytics, including their origins in the 20th century, th...

Establishing relationships among brain structures and cognitive functions is a central task in cognitive neuroscience. Existing methods to establish associations among a set of function variables and a set of brain regions, such as dissociation logic and conjunction analysis, are hypothesis-driven. We propose a new data-driven approach to structure-function association analysis. We validated it...

6 are a key part of such assessments, but sometimes they can lead people astray, as 7 in motivated inference when people believe what fits with their desires. In contrast 8 to motivated inference, fear-driven inference generates beliefs that people do not 9 want to be true. Although paradoxical, this kind of inference is common in many 10 domains, including romantic relationships, health, paren...