background: obsessive patients are distressed by intrusive thoughts, which are related to unreal threats. these patients feel that they are responsible for harming themselves and others. while controlling worry and meta-cognitive beliefs, the present study aimed at comparing the responsibility attitudes in obsessive compulsive patients with those in normal subjects to determine whether the diff...

the aim of this paper is presenting an account of the development of the body of knowledge which so far has been known as planning theory. this branch of knowledge studies the major issues related to different kinds of planning. hough, the origin of planning practice was in soviet :union: , the first steps toward creating a set of theoretical axioms for justifying and explaining planning was ta...

Suboptimal or erroneous configuration data in rail automation systems may cause serious safety and cost issues. This research work aims to address continuous optimization of such data by (i) connecting configuration and operation data by integration of heterogeneous data sources, and by (ii) application of prescriptive analytics methods to propose decision options on how to correct and optimize...

Customary organizational negotiations tend to focus efforts to attaining optimality in single-problem contexts that are both disparate and temporary in nature. Once the negotiations are settled, the process usually attains closure and the long-term impact of the outcome is rarely considered. In reality, however, decisions involving quid pro quos are made on a continuous basis. Since organizatio...

CDNs have reshaped the Internet architecture at large. They operate (globally) distributed networks of servers to reduce latencies as well as to increase availability for content and to handle large traffic bursts. Traditionally, content providers were mostly limited to a single CDN operator. However, in recent years, more and more content providers employ multiple CDNs to serve the same conten...

the present study examined the effect of grouped meta-cognitive therapy on meta-cognitive beliefs of patients' suffering from generalized anxiety disorder. this research is a quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with control group in which two groups of experiment and control are used. the present study population includes all state universities, islamic azad universities ...

Reynolds’ original theory of relational parametricity intended to capture the idea that polymorphically typed System F programs preserve all relations between inputs. But as Reynolds himself later showed, his theory can only be formalized in a meta-theory with an impredicative universe, such as Martin-Löf Type Theory. A number of more abstract treatments of relational parametricity have since a...

The author proposes and investigates different strategies for testing descriptive and prescriptive conditionals in Wason’s selection tasks. Two experiments examined the influence of frequency information on the postulated Bayesian and deontic test strategies. The rules in both the descriptive and the prescriptive case were social rules. The results of Experiment 1 showed only some of the predic...