We surveyed a convenience sample of 362 Italian university physics students, asking them to retrospectively assess their experience emergency remote instruction due the COVID-19 outbreak. looked at psychological well being, motivation for physics, academic orientation, attitude towards and physicists, tried link these factors overall perception online instruction. Our results show general appre...

The present study investigated the predictive value of locus of control and internal-external attribution as they relate to learned helplessness in children. Forty four femal~s and twenty seven males enrolled in the fifth and sixth grades of a private elementary school served as subjects. Subjects were group administered the Nowicki Strickland Locus of Control Scale for Children and the KASTAN ...

Music Information Retrieval (MIR) and modern data mining techniques are applied to identify style markers in midi music for stylometric analysis and author attribution. Over 100 attributes are extracted from a library of 2830 songs then mined using supervised learning data mining techniques. Two attributes are identified that provide high informational gain. These attributes are then used as st...

The concept of style is much debated in theoretical as well as empirical terms. From an empirical perspective, the key question is how to operationalize style and thus make it accessible for annotation and quantification. In authorship attribution, many different approaches have successfully resolved this issue at the cost of linguistic interpretability: The resulting algorithms may be able to ...

Negative life events (NLEs), attributional style (AS), and depression were prospectively examined with adolescent girls, with youth assessments every 6 months (grades 9 -11) and parent reports of childhood NLEs at baseline. Growth curve modeling revealed that both AS and NLEs predicted depression at baseline. With AS controlled, those with high NLEs showed a decline in depression over time, suc...

While claims of the importance of attribution theory and teachers' expectations of students for student performance are repeatedly made, there is little comprehensive research identifying the perceptions preservice teachers have of students with learning disabilities (LD). Accordingly, 444 Australian preservice primary school teachers were surveyed using vignettes and Likert-scale questions, to...

Authorship attribution is an important and emerging security tool. However, just as criminals may wear gloves to hide their fingerprints, so too may criminal authors mask their writing styles to escape detection. Most authorship studies have focused on cooperative and/or unaware authors who do not take such precautions. This paper analyzes the methods implemented in the Java Graphical Authorshi...

Quantitative authorship attribution refers to the task of identifying the author of a text based on measurable features of the author’s style—a problem that has practical application in areas as diverse as literary scholarship, plagiarism detection, and criminal forensics. Attribution methods generally follow a generative approach, wherein a statistical “profile” is created for a set of candida...