This paper describes an investigation of authorship gender attribution mining from e-mail text documents. We used an extended set of predominantly topic content-free e-mail document features such as style markers, structural characteristics and gender-preferential language features together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm. Experiments using a corpus of e-mail documents generate...

A home is the single largest purchase that most households make, and it is one that usually requires some debt financing. Because housing debt is such a large component of households’ balance sheets, it is important to understand the financing decision. In this paper, we use household level data from the HILDA survey to relate households’ leverage to their observed characteristics using both gr...

layered stylistics is a sub-branch of stylistics. In stylistics, considering the situational context as macro-layer, researchers break down text into strata and study style by examining identifying prominent or frequent features. This type can be considered most complete accurate methods in stylisitcs. Due to large number manuscripts obtained from Hossein Kharazmi’s Divan, authors use stylistic...

Explanatory style (ES) reflects the way people usually explain disparate bad or good events involving the self. The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to test whether ES moderates the effect of perceived ability on students' expectancies and subjective task value, and (b) to explore the mediating effects of success expectancies and subjective task value in the relationships between ES and s...

taminated water; however, he is quick to point out that experimental subjects have been fed cholera vibrio organisms without developing disease. There are many factors needed, other than the causative organism, to effect an epidemic. Dr. Dubos casts his lot with the forces of Hygeia, preventive medicine, rather than those of Asclepius, curative medicine, as those which have the greater achievem...

Rumination has been defined as a mode of responding to distress that involves passively focusing one's attention on symptoms of distress without taking action. This dysfunctional response style intensifies depressed mood, impairs interpersonal problem solving, and leads to more pessimistic future perspectives and less social support. As most of these results were obtained from younger people, i...