Handshape works differently in nouns vs. a class of verbs in American Sign Language (ASL), and thus can serve as a cue to distinguish between these two word classes. Handshapes representing characteristics of the object itself (object handshapes) and handshapes representing how the object is handled (handling handshapes) appear in both nouns and a particular type of verb, classifier predicates,...

Conflict, such a real part of everyday life, has not by-passed the church and its leaders. Traditionally, however, clergymen have not dealt effectively with it. Successful management of conflict requires administrative skills and a considerable knowledge of organizational strategies, neither of which has generally been given very high priority. Because the church is so vulnerable to conflict to...

Cognitive control is related to goal-directed self-regulation abilities, which is fundamental for human development. Conflict control includes the neural processes of conflict monitoring and conflict resolution. Testosterone and cortisol are essential hormones for the development of cognitive functions. However, there are no studies that have investigated the correlation of these two hormones w...

This paper studies a possibility to represent n-ary conflicts within an argumentation framework having only binary attacks. We show that different instantiations of the abstract argumentation framework defined by Dung use very similar constructs for dealing with n-ary conflicts. We start by studying this procedure on two fully-instantiated systems from the argumentation literature and then show...

Guided by the emotional security hypothesis, this research identified (1) individual differences in children's strategies for preserving their emotional security in the interparental relationship, and (2) the psychosocial and family correlates of these individual differences. Study 1 assessed reactivity to parental conflict simulations among 56 school-age children, whereas Study 2 solicited chi...

We argue here about the relevance and the ultimate unity of the Bayesian approach in a non-conflicting and non-religious manner. Our main theme is that Bayesian data analysis is an effective tool for handling complex models, as proven by the increasing proportion of Bayesian studies in the applied sciences. We disregard the philosophical debates on the meaning of probability and on the random n...

Cognitive control involves adjustments in behavior to conflicting information, develops throughout childhood, and declines in aging. Accordingly, developmental and age-related changes in cognitive control and response-conflict detection were assessed in a response-compatibility task. We recorded performance measures, pre-response time (pre-RT) activity and medial frontal negativity (MFN)-sequen...

Slow and complicated wind power planning and permitting procedures have been a large obstacle for wind power diffusion in Sweden and other countries. This paper complements previous siting-oriented literature with a planning perspective on these problems. The focus is two national planning instruments implemented in Sweden in the early 2000s: a national planning target and an appointment of are...