Teachers’ conceptions of giftedness influence which students they identify as gifted and how they behave towards these students. Research findings are mixed, showing an overall positive, negative, or ambivalent view that considers gifted students as intellectually strong, but socio-emotionally inferior. Such misconceptions might lead teachers to focus on their students’ perceived socio-emotiona...

Novelty-seeking temperament is defined as the reaction to novel or risk situations and objects, and by the global disposition to explore such stimuli. Our purpose was to describe and compare this trait in primates. For this purpose, a risk-taking Index, a curiosity index, and a novelty-seeking index were correlated to several biosocial variables using 22 captive stumptail macaques (Macaca arcto...

Résumé. Trouver les liens manquants dans un grand réseau social est une tâche difficile, car ces réseaux sont peu denses, et les liens peuvent correspondre à des environnements structurels variés. Dans cet article, nous décrivons RankMerging, une méthode d’apprentissage supervisé simple pour combiner l’information obtenue par différentes méthodes de classement. Afin d’illustrer son intérêt, nou...

It is important for firms to help customers find the products or information they need in order to increase sales and promote return visits to their websites. Hence, the presentation of product information is very important in e-commerce websites. In this research, we study how disposition styles can influence browsing patterns. The pilot test results show that people are inclined to use featur...

OBJECTIVES Re-admissions after hospitalisation are a burden for patients and costly. Our objective was to examine whether re-admissions were increased among older patients when they or their surrogates disagreed with the discharge disposition recommended by the clinical team at hospital discharge. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Large academic medical centre in New York, NY. PA...

BACKGROUND Little research has been done on how beliefs of infertility patients about their embryos are related to their disposition decisions. The objective of this study was to describe how patients speak about their embryos, in moral (e.g. status) and non-moral terms, and to investigate how patients' narratives are related to their disposition preferences. METHODS In-depth interviews based...