To encourage development of negative attitudes toward alcohol use and thus prevent early onset of alcohol use, an intersectoral intervention was conducted from 2014 to 2015 among Cuban adolescents in 14 schools in Havana. The intervention included 312 students (189 girls and 123 boys) aged 14 to 15 years in 10th grade of high school or vocational school. Workshops were conducted using participa...

Background: Concepts of health and illness give additional important information to the biomedical models. According to the literature of lay beliefs, these concepts significantly affect population's health and illness behaviors and their health consciousness. Detecting children's lay concepts of health means a special professional challenge since they are not able to think in an abstract and s...

Projective texture-mapping is a powerful tool for image-based rendering. However, visibility information must be obtained in order to project correct textures onto the geometric sturcture. This paper presents a novel visibility algorithm for determining which polygons are visible from each camera position. It has object-space precision, but operates in both image-space and object-space to get b...

The main aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of different techniques for the assessment of vocational interests. In an empirical study (n = 264) a questionnaire, a nonverbal test, several objective personality tests, and a semi-projective test were applied in one single session in a computerized setting. All tests enable the assessment of vocational interests with regard to the the...

pull the cat' s tail . It was going to be an awful afternoon until Uncle Wilifred thought of Mental Representations (which was a game that we hadn ' t played for years) and everybody got very excited and we jumped up and down and waved our hands and all talked at once and had a perfectly lovely romp . But Auntie said that she couldn 't stand the noise and there would be tears before bedtime if ...

The main goal of the adaptive local strategy consists in reducing the complexity of computational problems. We propose a new approach to curve approximation and smoothing based on 4-point transformations or Discrete Projective Transforms (DPT). In the framework of DPT the variable point is related to three data points (accompanying points). The variable y ordinate is expressed via the convoluti...

I am pleased to have this opportunity to respond to the article on the Rorschach Test in clinical diagnosis since my 1947 article seemed to be at least a partial focus of the critical comments. I also will try to comply with the editor’s request for a “short rejoinder” to this lengthy article. In addition, although I felt the tone of the manuscript was overly haughty in criticizing an article p...

Parsing algorithms that process the input from left to right and construct a single derivation have often been considered inadequate for natural language parsing because of the massive ambiguity typically found in natural language grammars. Nevertheless, it has been shown that such algorithms, combined with treebank-induced classifiers, can be used to build highly accurate disambiguating parser...

Generalizations of the classical affine Lelieuvre formula to surfaces in projective three-dimensional space and to hypersurfaces in multidimensional projective space are given. A discrete version of the projective Lelieuvre formula is presented too. Mathematics Subject Classifications (1991): 51A30, 14CO5

let $pounds$ be the category of locally compact abelian groups and $a,cin pounds$. in this paper, we define component extensions of $a$ by $c$ and show that the set of all component extensions of $a$ by $c$ forms a subgroup of $ext(c,a)$ whenever $a$ is a connected group. we establish conditions under which the component extensions split and determine lca groups which are component projective. ...