The current study explored the relation between blood pressure and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) scores among cigarette smokers and their nonsmoking peers. When participants were assessed collectively, only a modest positive correlation between blood pressure and AUDIT score was observed. When assessed by smoking status, however, smokers demonstrated a significant relati...

Temperament works in combination with a child's environment to influence early socioemotional development. We examined whether maternal caregiving behavior at infant age 9 months moderated the relation between infant temperamental fear (9 months) and observations of children's social behavior with an unfamiliar peer at age 2 in a typically-developing sample of 155 children. When infants receive...

The massive access to the Cloud poses new challenges for the cloud citizens to use services overcoming the risks of a new form of digital divide. What we envision is a socially orchestrated cloud, i.e. an ecosystem where the users put their experience and know-how (their personal knowledge) at the service of the social cloud, where social networks articulate the assistance to users. With his sc...

Sentence complexity in children with autism and specific language impairment." MA (Master of Arts) thesis, iii ABSTRACT Children with high-functioning autism, children with specific language impairment, children with autism and language impairment, and controls produced sentences after a prompt to form a sentence using a specific word. The sentences were analyzed for length and syntactic comple...

Decentralized reasoning is receiving increasing attention due to the distributed nature of knowledge on the Web. We address the problem of answering queries to distributed propositional reasoners which may be mutually inconsistent. This paper provides a formal characterization of a prioritized peerto-peer query answering framework that exploits a preference ordering over the peers as well as a ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how illness characteristics influence children's responses to ill peers. METHODS A sample of 363 4th and 5th graders responded to a vignette describing a peer with abdominal pain. In a 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 design, conditions varied by (a) evidence for organic disease, (b) presence of stress, (c) sex of vignette character, and (d) sex of respondent. Children rated symptom sev...

This study compared sexual orientation and romantic relationship experience in a large sample of adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (n = 675) and general population peers (n = 8064). Gender identity was explored in the ASD group in relation to assigned gender at birth. Compared to general population peers, more people with ASD, especially women, reported sexual attractio...