Aim Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to use emotions effectively and productively. It is becoming increasingly clear that these skills are one of the primary foundations for better performance of students in classrooms and in the society as well and EI provides the basis for competencies important "in almost every job." So we accessed the EI of teenagers as a guide of their academic s...

Higher-order program transformations raise new challenges for proving properties of their output, since they resist traditional, rst-order proof techniques. In this work, we consider (1) the \one-pass" continuation-passing style (CPS) transformation, which is second-order, and (2) the occurrences of parameters of continuations in its output. To this end, we specify the one-pass CPS transformati...

Grigory Perelman has been awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to geometry and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the Ricci flow. Perelman was born in 1966 and received his doctorate from St. Petersburg State University. He quickly became renowned for his work in Riemannian geometry and Alexandrov geometry, the latter being a form of Riemannian g...

In the 1960s and 1970s the Italian born scientist Antonio Priore, working in France, amazed the public and divided the scientific world with his invention, a machine which could cure a variety of illnesses, including cancer. Gaining the support of the French government and several scientific organizations, Priore received a great amount of money in funds to sustain his research. Without exposin...

Many studies report lower academic productivity among women. But are women less likely to get their research published in the first place? The evidence for potential gender bias in publication and impact is mixed. This article examines the gender dimension of scientific publication in international relations (IR) based on submission data for Journal of Peace Research for the period 1983–2008. I...

In a business process, control flow decisions are based on the evaluation of conditions. Thus, conditions must be considered for control flow verification. This paper shows how the Petri nets based control flow verification can be improved by analysing conditions and logical relations between them. We outline a Petri net extension with predicate transitions, which are responsible for conditions...

The Mind-Modulated Music Interface (MMMI) provides a new way to create music. The system is designed to harness the musical processing power of the brain, allowing musicians to control the output of the system just by paying attention to it. The Phase Synchrony Engine, a component of the MMMI, is used to detect musical processing in the brain via EEG in real-time. This information is then used ...

Having developed a Montague-like interpretation of a fragment of natural language, one may want to modify it in order to accomodate further linguistic phenomena. This may require radical changes in the semantic interpretation of syntactic categories. For instance, one may want to raise the semantic type assigned to the category of adverbial modifiers in order to account for quantified adverbial...

Empathy has received increasing empirical attention in the study of intergroup relations. Much of this research has focused on the potential of interventions that generate empathy for improving intergroup attitudes and reducing intergroup bias. Specifically, this work typically explores how empathy mediates the effects of various manipulations, such as direct instructions to imagine how an outg...

This multimethod research linked the Big Five personality dimensions to interpersonal conflicts. Agreeableness was the focus because this dimension is associated with motives to maintain positive interpersonal relations. Converging responses to both hypothetical conflicts and to diary records of actual daily interpersonal conflicts across a two-week period were assessed. Agreeableness was expec...