Lakshmipathy K. MBBS student perceptions about physiology subject teaching and objective structured practical examination based formative assessment for improving competencies. Adv Physiol Educ 39: 198–204, 2015; doi:10.1152/advan.00073.2014.—The objectives of the present study were to 1) assess student attitudes to physiology, 2) evaluate student opinions about the influence of an objective st...

Semantic textual similarity (STS) measures the degree to which two texts share the same meaning. In Natural Language Processing, STS touches many different aspects, from thesaurus generation to machine translation. However, methods for measuring STS have often been developed only for very specific types of texts, such as for comparing two words or for comparing paragraphs. This disjoint approac...

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for the redundancy elimination problem: Given an underspecified semantic representation (USR), compute an USR which has fewer readings, but still describes at least one representative of each semantic equivalence class of the original readings. The algorithm operates on underspecified chart representations which are derived from dominance graphs; it ca...

This study investigated the effect of smiling and of head tilting on person perception. Brazilian undergraduates (N = 322) judged a slide of a male or female stimulus person, smiling or not, and with the head tilted or not. The independent variables were (a) subject's gender, (b) stimulus person's gender; (c) head posture (tilted vs. upright), and (d) facial expression (no smile, closed smile, ...

The general framework of this research is about risk awareness through the aspect of cognitive abilities to perceive and assess the criticality of the driving situation among motorcyclists versus car drivers. In order to study risk awareness, we have developed some tools based on video films. The experimental task consists in assessing the criticality of dynamic driving situations, via a Likert...

This study utilized an experimental format to examine the influence of age designations upon differential ratings of a stimulus person. Two experiments were conducted—one in a college-age population (N = 280); the other in a grouping of older, retired adults (N = 96). In both settings, subjects heard a recorded discussion by a SP described as being either 25 or 65 years of age. Ratings were mad...