Abstract Background The Day-to-Day Impact of Vaginal Aging (DIVA) questionnaire is a validated patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) capturing the impacts vaginal symptoms in postmenopausal women. Aim We aimed to psychometrically validate German version DIVA questionnaire. Methods Data was collected online and by paper-pencil. ran confirmatory factor analyses confirm priori four-factor struct...

This paper describes a model of speech production called DIVA that highlights issues of self-organization and motor equivalent production of phonological units. The model uses a circular reaction strategy to learn two mappings between three levels of representation. Data on the plasticity of phonemic perceptual boundaries motivates a learned mapping between phoneme representations and vocal tra...

Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) causes an economically important disease of sheep and goats, primarily in developing countries. It is becoming the object of intensive international control efforts. Current vaccines do not allow vaccinated and infected animals to be distinguished (no DIVA capability). We have previously shown that recombinant, replication-defective, adenovirus expressing...

Generalization to new examples is an essential aspect of categorization. However, recent category learning research has not focused on how people generalize their category knowledge. Taking generalization to be a critical basis for evaluating formal models of category learning, we employed a ‘minimal case’ approach to begin a systematic investigation of generalization. Human participants receiv...

Although globally less efficient than advanced dialogue systems, the chatbot approach allows people to easily design conversational agents. We suggest that one of their main drawbacks, their lack of believability, could be bypassed through the addition of variability in their answers, particularly when the variations depend on previous interactions or on particular parameters defining the agent...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the general characteristics of commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) to detect antibody against classical swine fever (CSF), as well as to assess their potential use as accompanying marker tests able to differentiate infected from vaccinated animals (DIVA). The Chekit* CSF-Sero and the HerdChek* CSFV Ab, both of which detect ant...

The species diversity of Copepoda Harpacticoida at several sampling locations in the Southern Atlantic has been investigated. From the obtained multicorer samples, a new taxon of Paranannopinae Por, 1986, Nyxis rostrocularis gen. nov., sp. nov., has been collected, which is described in the present paper. Specimens of the taxon have been encountered in the Angola Basin (DIVA 1 stations 325 and ...