This is an uncontrolled, descriptive study of 30 sexually sadistic criminals. All were men, and all intentionally tortured their victims in order to arouse themselves. Their crimes often involved careful planning, the selection of strangers as victims, approaching the victim under a pretext, participation of a partner, beating victims, restraining victims and holding them captive, sexual bondag...

In 1987, DSM-III introduced the term delusional disorder. In so doing they gave new life to a concept that had predated but was delineated in its modern form by Kraepelin and developed most notably in France in the second and third decades of this century. While the current concept of delusional disorder is defined in a manner that distinguishes it from schizophrenia, a consideration of the evo...

This paper aims to be an introduction to the General Service List (GSL) that brings together descriptive data with material otherwise dispersed throughout the literature. The discussion first provides an historical overview of the work that scholars, researchers, and educators used as foundations for the manufacturing of the GSL. Following, a collection of modern studies is presented in an effo...

We describe a new paradigm in which a user can produce a wide range of expressive, natural-looking movements of animated characters by specifying their manners and attitudes with natural language verbs and adverbs. A natural language interpreter, a Parameterized Action Representation (PAR), and an expressive motion engine (EMOTE) are designed to bridge the gap between natural language instructi...

The ability to orchestrate different transformations in a flexible and reliable manner is a major challenge in MDE. Most of the current work on model transformations seems essentially operational and executable in nature. Such incomplete view on the composition issue provides suitable answers to a wide range of practical needs. However it does not cover the entire problem’s spectrum. In this ar...

The paper provides descriptive analyses of the EU New Member States agriculture over the period from 2000 to 2011. In 2004 and 2007, twelve New Member States (NMS) joined the European Union, which has offered several possibilities and challenges to the newcomers. The aim of the paper is to discuss development of agriculture in the EU New Member States. We evaluate the status of this sector as w...

The present paper proposes a method by which to translate outputs of a robust HPSG parser into semantic representations of Typed Dynamic Logic (TDL), a dynamic plural semantics defined in typed lambda calculus. With its higher-order representations of contexts, TDL analyzes and describes the inherently inter-sentential nature of quantification and anaphora in a strictly lexicalized and composit...

Data that represent azimuthal directions cannot be analyzed statistically in the same manner as ordinary variables that measure, for example, size or quality. Many statistical techniques have been developed for dealing with directional data, but available software for the unique calculations is scarce. This paper describes a MATLAB script, located on the IAMG server, that calculates descriptive...

Indexing is often designed with the intent of dimensional reduction, that is, of generating standardised and uniform descriptive metadata. This could be characterised as a process of decontextualisation. Formal knowledge representation systems typically have the aim of encapsulating granular pieces of information in a reusable manner. The result is a set of information elements with minimal lin...

Many existing models for temporal composition of multimedia data are based on the Allen relations [1]. However, the relations are not suitable for composition: they are descriptive (do not re ect causal dependency between intervals), they depend on interval durations (changing duration may modify relations), and they may lead to temporal inconsistency (contradictory relations speci ed for inter...