Since the beginning of 2020, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and its lockdowns have changed current lives young people drastically. Given importance future orientations for people’s mental well-being, it is important to investigate if how this lockdown affected orientations. In study, 34 Dutch (aged 16–24) with diverse backgrounds were interviewed during spring 2020 in Netherlands. Results showe...

A significant proportion of all deaths globally can be attributed to alcohol consumption. Although a range of correlates of alcohol consumption have already been identified at the individual level, less is understood about correlates at the macro level, such as cultural values. As a development in this understanding may prove useful for global health organizations aiming to tackle the problems ...

introduction: in the past 2 decades, research findings established achievement goal theory as a powerful framework for conceptualizing difference in the quality of student’s engagement, persistence on task, and academic resilience. so the present study examined the relationship between achievement goal orientations and academic resilience. method: participants were 606 students (307 girls and 2...

This paper presents Halos Networks as a competitive architectural paradigm for developing future Internet of-with Things. A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos Networks are capable of delivering services and data virally through multiple devices, machines and object...

In the past decade, several researchers have started reinvestigating the use of sub-phonetic models for lexical representations within automatic speech recognition systems. Lest history repeat itself, it may be instructive to mine the further past for models of lexical representations in the lexical access literature. In this work, we re-evaluate the model of Briscoe (1989), in which a hybrid s...

Estimation of local orientations in multivariate signals (including optical flow estimation as special case of orientation in spacetime-volumes) is an important problem in image processing and computer vision. Modelling a signal using only a single orientation is often too restrictive, since occlusions and transparency happen frequently, thus necessitating the modelling and analysis of multiple...

In future, the so called ”sensing enterprise”, as part of the Future Internet, will play a crucial role in the success or the failure of an enterprise. We present our vision of an enterprise interacting with the physical world based on a retail scenario. One of the main challenges is the interoperability not only between the enterprise IT systems themselves, but also between these systems and t...

We develop a novel visual approach to evaluating an Internet pricing scheme using a 3Dmetric model, which encompasses the dimensions of technical complexity, economic efficiency and social impact. We review the history of Internet pricing research over the last decade, summarizing the key features of the most significant models, and analyzing and evaluating them using our 3D model. Based on the...