How does one decide on the perfect gift? We look at an important tradeoff between desirability and feasibility in gift giving using construal level theory as a framework. We propose that givers construe gifts abstractly, and therefore choose gifts high on desirability attributes over gifts high on feasibility attributes. Support for these propositions emerges in studies examining giver and rece...

Objectives The present study aimed to determine the degree of stress relief and increase in mindfulness attributes experienced by 18 participants an 8-week Mindful Practice for Teachers (MPT) program. Methods mixed-methods design included participant reflections collected throughout self-report measures: Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Positive Mindset Index (PMI), Five Facets Mindfulness Questio...

Subjective expected utility, prospect theory and most other formal models of decision making under uncertainty are probabilistic: they assume that in making choices people judge the likelihood of relevant uncertainties. Clearly, in many situations people do indeed judge likelihood. However, we present experiments suggesting that there are also many situations in which people do not judge likeli...

Biomedical entity linking (EL) is the task of mentions in a biomedical document to corresponding entities knowledge base (KB). The challenge EL lies leveraging mention context select most appropriate among possible candidates. Although some models achieve competitive results by retrieving candidate and then exploiting re-rank them, these re-ranking concatenate with one at time. They lack fine-g...

cystadenoma is a rare benign salivary gland tumor that chiefly originates in the minor salivary glands as a cystic growth with papillary projections into the cystic lumen without the lymphoid element. it is further classified into two histopathological variants that have been recognized by world health organization as the papillary and the mucinous forms of cystadenoma. clinically, it is diffic...