The recreation specialization concept is finding increased use among leisure researchers. To date, it's application has been limited to studies of outdoor recreationists, including anglers (Bryan, 1977; Graefe, 1980; Ditton, Loomis, & Choi, 1992) boaters (Donnelly, Vaske, & Graefe, 1986), canoeists (Wellman, Roggenbuck, & Smith, 1982; Kaufman, 1984), hikers (Williams, & Huffman, 1986; Virden & ...

Writer identification is the process of identifying the writer of the document based on their handwriting. Recent advances in computational engineering, artificial intelligence, data mining, image processing, pattern recognition and machine learning have shown that it is possible to automate writer identification. This paper proposes a model for text-dependent writer identification based on Eng...

The conversations between posters and repliers in microblogs form a valuable writer-reader emotion corpus. In a microblog conversation, the writer of the initial post and the reader who replies to the initial post can both express their emotions. The process of changing from writer emotion to reader emotion is called a writer-reader emotion transition in this paper. Log relative frequency ratio...

Acknowledgements This evaluation was supported by a grant from the Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut. Judith Meyers provided considerable intellectual support for this evaluation and its dissemination. Crista Marchesseault coordinated the data collection and assisted with describing the ECCP service model. Liz Bicio and Sam Moy, both of Advanced Behavioral Health, were inval...

This article identifies and analyses the dominant stories that academics tell about the development of Western second wave feminist theory. Through an examination of recent production of interdisciplinary feminist and cultural theory journals, I suggest that despite a rhetorical insistence on multiple feminisms, Western feminist trajectories emerge as startlingly singular. In particular, I am c...