We propose using domain-independent task decomposition techniques for situations in which cases are the sole or the main source for domain knowledge. Our work is motivated by project planning domains, where hierarchical cases are readily available, but neither a planning domain theory nor case adaptation knowledge is available. We present DInCaD (Domain-Independent System for Case-Based Task De...

The present research was designed to examine hypotheses derived from the proposition that shame is the core of fear of failure. Study 1 was conducted in a naturalistic setting and demonstrated that individuals high in fear of failure reported greater shame upon a perceived failure experience than those low in fear of failure. These findings were obtained controlling for other negative emotions....

The purpose of this article is to explore the psycholinguistic aspects of interlingual and intralingual interference during second language grammatical gender production. Two experiments were constructed to explore whether the difficulties in acquisition and correct production of grammatical gender in a second language are influenced by competition for selection between the gender node of a sec...

Improper management of software evolution commonly leads to a lack of up-to-date specification. This situation is further aggravated by imprecise, changing requirements and short time to market requirement, which can result in software that is characterized by presence of bugs, anomalies and even security threat. Software specification mining is a new technique to address this concern by inferr...

Context: Proneness to overgeneralization of self-blame is a core part of cognitive vulnerability to major depressive disorder (MDD) and remains dormant after remission of symptoms. Current neuroanatomical models of MDD, however, assume general increases of negative emotions and are unable to explain biases toward emotions entailing self-blame (eg, guilt) relative to those associated with blamin...

Nucleus accumbens dopamine is known to play a role in motivational processes, and dysfunctions of mesolimbic dopamine may contribute to motivational symptoms of depression and other disorders, as well as features of substance abuse. Although it has become traditional to label dopamine neurons as "reward" neurons, this is an overgeneralization, and it is important to distinguish between aspects ...

When looking at an object—say, a banana—we can both directly perceive its visual qualities (e.g., its size) and also make higher-level judgments about its visual and non-visual properties (e.g., not only its size, but also its cost). Suppose you obtain a rating of a property such as size. Does that rating implicate seeing or merely higher-level judgment? The answer often matters a great deal – ...

OBJECTIVE Classical conditioning features prominently in many etiological accounts of panic disorder. According to such accounts, neutral conditioned stimuli present during panic attacks acquire panicogenic properties. Conditioned stimuli triggering panic symptoms are not limited to the original conditioned stimuli but are thought to generalize to stimuli resembling those co-occurring with pani...

This study explores the use and functions of discourse markers (DMs) in narrative essays 85 Jordanian high school students adopting Frasers’s (2006) framework. The results show that most frequently used DMs were elaborative (55.1%), followed by temporal (31.4%), inferential (9.3%) contrastive (4%) respectively. Regarding DMs, reveal participants employed to express addition information, sequenc...