BACKGROUND Although psychiatric diagnostic systems have conceptualized mania as a discrete phenomenon, appropriate latent structure investigations testing this conceptualization are lacking. In contrast to these diagnostic systems, several influential theories of mania have suggested a continuous conceptualization. The present study examined whether mania has a continuous or discrete latent str...

•The Google semantic/syntactic (analogies) →Constructed German counterpart through manual translation by 3 human judges •The paradigmatic semantic relation (analogies) →The dataset was adapted by Lenci & Benotto for English and by Scheible & Schulte im Walde for German. Examples: Antonym-Adj psychological : physical :: maximum : minimum Antonym-NN biblical : secular :: deaf : hearing Antonym-Ve...

In this paper we present a method for learning the structure of Bayesian networks (BNs) without making any assumptions on the probability distribution of the domain. This is mainly useful for continuous domains, where there is little guidance and many choices for the parametric distribution families to be used for the local conditional probabilities of the Bayesian network, and only a few have ...

This paper details a technique, called inter-block backtracking (IBB), which improves interval solving of decomposed systems with non-linear equations over the reals. This technique, introduced in 1998 by Bliek et al., handles a system of equations previously decomposed into a set of (small) k × k sub-systems, called blocks. All solutions are obtained by combining the solutions computed in the ...

A challenge in soft robotics and soft actuation is the determination of an elastic system that spontaneously recovers its trivial path during postcritical deformation after a bifurcation. The interest in this behavior is that a displacement component spontaneously cycles around a null value, thus producing a cyclic soft mechanism. An example of such a system is theoretically proven through the ...