Although engaging in pleasant experiences following successful performance may be hedonically rewarding, in the present research we proposed that individuals might forego pleasant experiences when they have not yet completed a task. In Study 1 (N = 100), participants reported the extent to which they would like to engage in pleasant experiences in a hypothetical situation where their performanc...

Four parent-guided training procedures aimed at facilitating independent reaching were compared in 36 threemonth-old infants recruited for this study and 36 infants taken from previously published reports. Training procedures systematically varied whether parental encouragement to act on external objects was provided, and whether self-produced experiences of moving an object were present. Reach...

SPARQL, the W3C standard querying language for RDF, provides rich capabilities for slicing and dicing RDF data. The latest version, SPARQL 1.1, added support for aggregation, nested and distributed queries among others. Nevertheless, the purely declarative nature of SPARQL and the lack of support for common programming patterns, such as recursion and iteration, make it challenging to perform co...

Required) Over the past years Brazil has done significant investments in software process improvement. Among them, the long term MPS.BR program focuses on improving the software process quality of Brazilian companies. This paper describes the successful software process improvement (SPI) initiative that is being developed in Brazil, called the MPS.BR program, including its software process impr...

This paper discusses the views of Turkish and British novice teachers on pedagogy and pedagogical relationships with school students when confronted with the pedagogical practices of the 'Other'. Experiences of those practices were gained by novice teachers during an exchange visit for British and Turkish university students in 2008-2009. Data was collected through questionnaires and focus grou...