This is a system description paper for a submission to Task 8 of SemEval-2016: Meaning Representation Parsing. No use was made of the training data provided by the task. Instead existing components were combined to form a pipeline able to take raw sentences as input and output meaning representations. Components are a part-of-speech tagger and parser trained on the Penn Parsed Corpus of Modern ...

Forty-three undergraduates (30 males, 13 females) prepared and performed a speech task (stressor) or a reading task (no-stressor control). Preparing to speak led to greater threat appraisal, negative emotion, and cardiovascular (CV) response than preparing to read aloud, particularly in speech anxious individuals. Delivering the speech, however, did not result in an increment in CV response ove...

abstract there are varieties of researches for appraisal of results obtained by countries in olympics, using data envelopment analysis method. this research is aimed to make such appraisal for iranians’ results in olympics games using the dea method. before taking any measures, main issues of dea methods for appraisal of olympics games in the previous research were discussed, afterward optimiza...

Users’ adaptation behaviors are vital to the success of the system if there is a poor fit between task and technology at the initial post-adoption stage. However, prior studies have mixed results on how users adapt to the fit challenge. We draw on coping theory and appraisal theory of emotion to develop an encounter-emotion-coping framework to reconcile the mixed results by exploring the links ...

Performance appraisal of employee is important in managing the human resource of an organization. With the change towards knowledge-based capitalism, maintaining talented knowledge workers is critical. However, management classification of “outstanding”, “poor” and “average” performance may not be an easy decision. Besides that, superior might also tend to judge the work performance of their su...

African-American women are less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than are White women but are more likely to be adversely affected. Although differences in incidence and mortality have been explored in some depth, little attention has been paid to how these women cope with the disease or whether their appraisal of their breast cancer differs from that of White women. Using a comparativ...

In Multi-user Feedback support system or 360 0 Feedback, data on the performance of an individual are collected systematically from a number of stakeholders and are used for improving performance. The 360 0 Feedback approach provides a consistent management philosophy meeting the criterion outlined previously. The 360 0 feedback based appraisal is a comprehensive method where in the feedback ab...